{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.enzi.senate.gov//public/index.cfm/news-releases?ContentRecord_id=E30A45EA-9710-401A-8CAC-026375DD0E71", "Senator Enzi, Congressman Duffy introduce bicameral legislation to rein in CFPBs pay structure", "2017-11-30", "2017", "2017-11", "Republican", "House", "WY", "Michael Enzi", "E000285", "www.enzi.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "U.S. Senator Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., and Congressman Sean Duffy, R-Wis., introduced bicameral legislation this week to rein in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau\u2019s rates of pay. Specifically, the legislation requires the CFPB\u2019s Director to set the basic rates of pay for employees in accordance with the Federal Government\u2019s General Schedule. The new rates of pay would be in effect for all employees 90 days after the enactment of the bill.\r\n\u201cThe need for Congress to bring accountability to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is long overdue and the bureau\u2019s lavish spending on employee salaries is a key example of why,\u201d Enzi said. \u201cThere are hundreds of employees at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau making more than governors, Supreme Court justices and senior White House Staff, and Congress lacks the usual constitutional checks to rein in this behavior. Although it might just sound like common sense, this bill would ensure the bureau is keeping employees\u2019 salaries in line with the regular government pay scale. Hopefully this is the start of many needed reforms.\u201d\u00a0\r\n\u201cThe CFPB is dangerously unaccountable to the American people because Democrats intentionally designed it that way,\u201d Duffy said. \u201cAs a result, they can act as a bully to small banks and credit unions, push a far-left agenda, and spend lavishly on bureaucrat salaries that are obscenely higher than the vast majority of public servants. The agency must be reined in and held accountable, and the Pay Fairness Act, which sets basic pay rates in accordance with the federal government\u2019s General Schedule, is an important step in giving the American people a say in how this rogue agency functions.\u201d\r\nClick HERE for a copy of the bill.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.enzi.senate.gov//public/index.cfm/news-releases?ContentRecord_id=E30A45EA-9710-401A-8CAC-026375DD0E71"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.5177000313997269, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}