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Title: Obama's $400,000 speech could prompt Congress to go after his pension
Source: MSN
URL Source: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit ... AIn3A?li=BBnb7Kz&OCID=AVRES007
Published: May 4, 2017
Author: Gregory Kort
Post Date: 2017-05-04 07:29:32 by HomerBohn
Keywords: None
Views: 729
Comments: 3

WASHINGTON — Last year, then-president Barack Obama vetoed a bill that would have curbed the pensions of former presidents if they took outside income of $400,000 or more.

So now that former president Barack Obama has decided to accept $400,000 for an upcoming Wall Street speech, the sponsors of that bill say they'll reintroduce that bill in hopes that President Trump will sign it.

"The Obama hypocrisy on this issue is revealing," said Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and sponsor of the 2016 bill. "His veto was very self-serving."

Chaffetz and Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, the sponsor of the companion Senate bill, say they will re-introduce the Presidential Allowance Modernization Act this month. The bill would cap presidential pensions at $200,000, with another $200,000 for expenses. But those payments would be reduced dollar-for-dollar once their outside income exceeds $400,000.

The issue isn't a partisan one — or at least, it wasn't last year. The bill passed both the House and Senate with no opposition, and no veto threat had come from the White House.

So when Obama's veto came one Friday night last July — on the last day for him to sign or veto the legislation — it took lawmakers by surprise. It was the 11th of Obama's 12 vetoes.

At the time, Obama argued that the bill would have "unintended consequences" and "impose onerous and unreasonable burdens" on former presidents by requiring them to immediately lay off staff and find new office space.

Republican leaders did not call up the bill for a veto override, which would have required a two-thirds majority in both chambers.

Democrats say they won't necessarily oppose changes.

Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., the top Democrat on Chaffetz's committee, was a co-sponsor of the original bill. “Cummings definitely supports the concept, and if we can work out the technical issues with the bill that arose late in the last Congress, we expect he would strongly support it again," said spokeswoman Jennifer Hoffman Werner.

Trump has not taken a position on the legislation. But during the campaign, he said he'd take a close look at pensions for elected officials — especially members of Congress.

"The first thing I’m going to do is tell you that if I’m elected president, I’m accepting no salary, OK?" he said at a town hall in 2015. "They get benefits that nobody else can even think about, OK. And they don’t like to talk about it. But we’ll work on that."

Under the Former Presidents Act, the nation's five living former presidents — Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Obama — get a pension equal to the salary of a current cabinet secretary: $207,800 in 2017. They also get $150,000 to pay staff, and “suitable office space, appropriately furnished and equipped."

In 2015, the entire benefit package ranged from $430,000 for Carter to $1.1 million for George W. Bush.

With Obama joining the club as of Jan. 20, the 2017 spending bill approved by the House Wednesday contained nearly $3.9 million for all the former presidents through Sept. 30 — a $588,000 annual increase.

Obama spokesman Kevin Lewis said the former president had no comment on the legislation.

Obama has already shown he has considerable potential to raise money in his post-presidential career. He and his wife Michelle have signed a publishing deal for two separate books, which the Financial Times reported was worth at least $65 million. And the Wall Street speech — a health care conference planned by investment firm Cantor Fitzgerald in September — will reportedly net him another $400,000.

"President Obama will deliver speeches from time to time," said Eric Schultz, a former White House spokesman who continues to advise Obama. "Some of those speeches will be paid, some will be unpaid, and regardless of venue or sponsor, President Obama will be true to his values, his vision, and his record."

Obama has said he also plans to use his post-presidency to work on a range of issues through his presidential center in Chicago. On Wednesday, he unveiled the design of that center and said he would donate $2 million to a summer jobs program for Chicago youth.

A spokesman for President George H.W. Bush said he does not oppose changes to the law, and expects that Congress will likely take some action.

"At age 93, he recognizes that any change to the act would have a greater impact on the other former presidents," said spokesman Jim McGrath. "For the sake of future occupants of the office, he does think some consideration should be given to the public role former presidents play — and we are told that very positive conversations addressing that and other matters have taken place."


Poster Comment:

Include the congress and senate when they retire. Reduce pension benefit money they take for doing nothing off their pensions dollar for dollar. Paying these pensions and providing the perks to these gluttonous hogs should end now. Congress is too damned greedy to take any action to eliminate the largesse they've provided for themselves.

It is especially nauseating when one considers what damage this foreign exchange student did to this tottering nation.(1 image)

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#1. To: HomerBohn (#0)

They should pull his pension and all secret service protection for ex presidents and their families!

Why should they be protected from us?

BobCeleste  posted on  2017-05-04   8:50:13 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: BobCeleste (#1) (Edited)

" They should pull his pension and all secret service protection for ex presidents and their families!

Why should they be protected from us? "

All elected / appointed Fed officials should leave office with nothing, no pension, no health care, no perks. They are free to write books, give speeches, be a Wal Mart Greeter, flip burgers, practice Law, sell real estate, whatever. Just not be a lobbyist. But should leave office like taxpayers leave a voting booth. Empty handed.

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Stoner  posted on  2017-05-04   21:44:57 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Stoner (#2)

All elected / appointed Fed officials should leave office with nothing, no pension, no health care, no perks. They are free to write books, give speeches, be a Wal Mart Greeter, flip burgers, practice Law, sell real estate, whatever. Just not be a lobbyist. But should leave office like taxpayers leave a voting booth. Empty handed.

From your lips to God's ears.

BobCeleste  posted on  2017-05-05   9:32:51 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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