Do Senators McCain, Clinton and Obama still get paid for being senators?

Their salaries are not so much an issue when compared to the cost of maintaining their staff, office and other expenses. Check it out sometime. Each Senator costs a great deal more than their salary.

As far as I know, there is no provision to force the issue.

More to the point, though, I agree with your conclusion. Active officials should resign to campaign for a different office so that the job they would be doing can be done by somebody else.

Senators belong to the world's most exclusive and high paying club, the Senate. They continue to get paydays every year they are in office no matter what.

IF they really want to do some good for the country they should put up a bill declaring they will all agree to serve the country for $8 an hour.

I don't know if any of them are worth more than that anyway.

All three receive a salary of $169,300 per year for being rank-and-file members of the Senate. Not quite fair to say they haven't been doing anything for their state. Last I heard McCain had missed about 60% of Senate votes so far, Obama about 40% and Hillary about 32%. I'm sure they're making an effort to stay in touch with the leadership to be informed and see how crucial their vote and presence would be on any given issue. A salary reduction for their diminished capacity would certainly make sense but it's not fair to say they've been doing nothing. The resulting sleep deprivation is probably partly responsible for their blurting things out about "57 states" and seeing "fallen heroes" in the audience.

What makes you think that they have not been "doing anything for their state" in the Senate? I know that the campaign trail eats up a lot of their time, but I don't have any reason for saying that none of the three of them have spent any time at all on Capitol Hill and have done nothing in the Senate to represent their states.

i do no longer think of elected officers could inevitably renounce. in the event that they don't have self belief they are able to preform their legislative responsibilities, subsequently, they could desire to actual renounce. no longer many times, although. Chris Dodd, whom i do no longer extremely like, left the campaign path this 12 months to filibuster against (i've got self belief it replaced into) telecom immunity. If any of those 3 have been to do some thing like that it would earn countless factors with me -- whether it have been some thing I disagree with. yet, Clinton, Obama, and McCain could renounce by way of fact of all the votes they're lacking. yet they gained't.

Yes - but the one who gets elected to the Presidency will have to resign from the Senate.

Yes.

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