Hillary’s pay less than Rice

The US Congress has voted to cut the secretary of state’s salary back to its pre-2007 level, paving the way for Hillary Clinton to fill that post, CNN reported on Thursday. The move was meant to conform to a clause in the Constitution stipulating a member of Congress cannot be appointed to a government job if the position’s salary has increased during the legislator’s current term.

The former First Lady was a sitting senator when President George W. Bush authorised a pay raise of $5,000 for the secretary of state last January. Though Ms Hillary will miss the pay rise, she will still make about $10,000 more a year being the secretary of state than what she is currently drawing as a senator. A similar move was made in 1993 when then President Bill Clinton picked senator Lloyd Bentsen as treasury secretary.