The Twenty-Seventh Amendment

"No law, varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives, shall take effect, until an election of Representatives shall have intervened."

The Twenty-Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution establishes that "No law, varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives, shall take effect, until an election of Representatives shall have intervened."  This amendment assures that the Congress of the United States of America cannot give themselves a pay raise while in session.  This amendment is good for the country because in a way it is just another system of checks and balances in the government.  Also, it regulates Congressional pay in more ways than one.  No one wants to be that Congressmen or Congresswoman who purposes a pay raise for congress. 

United States Congress men and women currently make $158,000 a year and they deserve every penny of it.  The Congress is the backbone of the entire country.  They are the ones that govern this country.  Even though their salary puts them among the 5% percent of our nation’s economy, their job is one of the hardest in the world.  They are constantly traveling back and forth from D.C. to their home districts to fundraise and govern.  My family is very close with a family that is very big political family in Missouri.  The father of the family is a very hardworking Congressman and spends a lot of time going back and forth from Missouri and Washington D.C.  every weekend.