Debt bill denies annual pay hike for Congress

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress on Wednesday moved to deny itself a pay raise.

It would mark the sixth consecutive year that lawmakers will have acted to make sure they don’t get the annual cost-of-living pay increase they get automatically unless they vote to freeze their pay.

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