Published on Aug 16, 2014
PROVIDED BY CNNNEXT.COM
Members of Congress are getting paid more than $2,000 for every bill they pass.
The chart below -- assembled by the Washington Post, based on data from the Congressional Research Service and GovTrack -- reveals the remarkable extent to which lawmakers today are being paid to accomplish next to nothing.
Members of Congress, excluding leadership and the president pro tempore, earn $174,000 per year.
Lawmakers in the wildly unproductive 113th Congress are being paid $4,368 per bill passed over the two-year session -- or $2,184 annually
