Until there was a pay raise in 1814, US Congressmen were paid $6 per diem when Congress was in session.
Places I’d Like To Share
Places I want to return with my kids:
1. Iceland
2. Washington D.C. historical sites and the nearby civil war battlefields (Gettysburg, Antietam, etc)
3. Carlsbad Caverns
4. New York City — the only place I have ever been that was bigger in real life than in my imagination.
5. England
6. Disney World
9. Hiking on the Appalachian Trail
10. Mission in Nogales, Mexico
11. Grand Lake Baptist Assembly (Northeastern Baptist Association of Oklahoma campgrounds)
12. Picher, Oklahoma
Locked In The Cabinet – Robert Reich
I enjoy reading political memoirs. One of my favorites is Robert Reich’s Locked in the Cabinet
. In it, Reich humorously describes his time as Secretary of Labor during the Clinton administration. Humorous? Yes, in a “I laugh to keep from crying” kind of way.