When you go into public service, you understand you're trading something. You want to feel good about what you do, but you're not going to make what people in private sector make.
Trey GowdyI don't like bonuses for public services employees who do great jobs, like prosecutors or judges.
Trey GowdyMembers of Congress are incredibly blessed and fortune to have the jobs that we have. Nobody makes us run. Every two years we offer for public office, and if you don't want to do it then don't run. But the notion that you can make $174,000 in this country and be underpaid is laughable.
Trey GowdyWhile people are free to draw different conclusions from the facts, there should be no debate over whether the American public is entitled to have all of the facts.
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