House GOPer: ‘I Need My Paycheck’ During Shutdown

Republican vice presidential candidate, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., accompanied by Rep. Renee Ellmers, R-N.C., answers questions during a campaign event at Partnership for Defense Innovation in Fayetteville, N.C., Thursd... Republican vice presidential candidate, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., accompanied by Rep. Renee Ellmers, R-N.C., answers questions during a campaign event at Partnership for Defense Innovation in Fayetteville, N.C., Thursday, Aug. 23, 2012. (AP Photo/Sara D. Davis) MORE LESS
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Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-NC) told a local television station that she would not be deferring her pay during the government shutdown, as some other members have done.

“I need my paycheck. That’s the bottom line,” Ellmers told WTVD in Raleigh, N.C. “I understand that there may be some other members who are deferring their paychecks, and I think that’s admirable. I’m not in that position.”

According to Ellmers’s official website, she was a registered nurse for 21 years before being elected to Congress. Her husband Brent, the website says, is a general surgeon.

Democratic Rep. G.K. Butterfield also told WTVD that he wouldn’t be deferring his pay. “I don’t think there should be a shutdown,” he said. “I didn’t create the shutdown.”

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