Ex-members of Congress gripe about $174K salary, cost of living in DC: 'It's very difficult'

Ex-members of Congress griped to the New York Times about the cost of living in the nation's capital on their $174,000 annual salaries, while acknowledging how many of their constituents make a fraction of that.

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