Raybould Would Champion Legislation to Tie Congressional Pay to Budget
Lincoln, Neb.— Grocer and businesswoman Jane Raybould began her campaign for United States Senate because she heard from her customers, her associates and her fellow Nebraskans that they were frustrated and fed up with the dysfunction in Washington.
The federal government may be re-opening today but the compromise reached last night has only extended operations for mere days. Nebraskans have witnessed the worst of Washington: using children’s health insurance as a political bargaining chip, putting our nation’s security in jeopardy and disrupting federal services from supplemental nutrition to closing the Homestead Monument.
“Jumping from one stop-gap funding bill to another is no way to govern. It’s about time we made sure that tax dollars aren’t being paid out to those who can’t come to the table, compromise, and do their job. I promise to work to enact new legislation that ensures members of Congress only get their paycheck IF they pass a budget,” said Jane Raybould.
“It’s time we end the special treatment – this is no different than what happens in local government across the country and every day in my family’s grocery stores,” she continued.
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Jane Raybould, candidate for U.S. Senate, is a fourth generation Nebraskan and a second-generation grocer. Her family’s business which she helps to run, B&R Stores Inc. including Super Savers and Russ’s Markets, employs more than 2,000 people across the state and was one of the first employee-owned companies in the state. Raybould’s campaign boasted more than 1,000 individual donations in its first five weeks and continues to attract support from every corner of the state.
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