Each member of the U.S. Congress is set to get an automatic, cost-of-living pay raise of about $4,700, or about 2.8%, according to the Council for Citizens Against Government Waste.
The current average salary for members of Congress, $169,300, would rise to about $174,000 in 2009.
Lawmakers have received automatic pay raises since 1989,
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