Project to Reduce Congressional Salaries Is “Virtually Sunk”

Fracasa, again, project to reduce salaries of congressmen.Agencia Period... Mié, 28/05/2025 - 18:33 The project sought to cut by half the current salary of congressmen, but was filed without discussion. Tags { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "DataFeed", "name": "", "description": "", "creator": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Agencia Periodismo Investigativa", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://agencypi.co/themes/cu…

The Senate sank a bill that proposed reducing congressional salaries to 50%. Image: X Senate Colombia. During the Senate plenary held on Wednesday, May 28, the collapse of the bill that proposed the reduction of congressional salaries was confirmed. Senator María José Pizarro explained that the decision took place due to a lack of quorum. Senator Ivan Cepeda, for his part, had previously pointed out that this bill would alleviate the country’s p…

The bill that seeks to reduce the salary of the congressmen failed to be voted in the Senate plenary and was “virtually sunk” for lack of legislative time. Despite being on the first point of the agenda, after almost three hours of discussion focused on impediments, the quorum necessary to advance the process was lost. Congress “will lose an immense opportunity, that of setting an example to the citizenry and demonstrating a minimum of commitmen…