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What is an outrage is when members simply stop showing-up for work after losing an election or announcing their retirement, yet happily continue to accept their $169,300 annual salary, nonetheless.
Mark Nickolas: Time To Stop Paying Lameduck Members of Congress If They Stop Showing Up For Work 2009
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How soon we start to fight back, and by fight I don't mean physically, although that is not to be ruled out, but should only be used as a last resort, but we need to start showing-up at our so-called representatives offices and demanding accountability for criminals.
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Now, large sums of money are showing-up in his campaign accounts, as if by magic.
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Martin said the surge is showing-up disproportionately in the urban and suburban areas of the state, and African-American turnout is spiking so high that in some places it could be 25 percent of the primary vote.
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[It] is an outrage is when members simply stop showing-up for work after losing an election or announcing their retirement, yet happily continue to accept their $169,300 annual salary, nonetheless.
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Should we pay lame-duck no-shows? 2008
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My latest post has basically no hope of showing-up.
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Did you read my showing-up this morning of the Bolshevik peril in the House of Lords?
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-02-25 Various
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"Well, the trouble is this: I've got an anonymous letter from Red Mick or some of his people, saying that they are going to give you and me a great showing-up about being hidden in the tree together."
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Bomefield her great idea for the showing-up of Roger.
The Chronicles of Clovis 1870-1916 Saki 1893
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Together they deplored the frivolity and vices of the younger officers (Ray came in for a good showing-up just there, no doubt), and together they projected the reformation of some of her favorites in the garrison.
Marion's Faith. Charles King 1888
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