The D.C. City Council is expected to pass a budget for 2011 that includes four unpaid furlough days on holidays. The measure is an effort to close a $188 million budget deficit. While the furlough days include the Mayor and the City Council, neither talked about pay cuts for themselves as part of the cost-cutting measures. A report released last year showed that the Council Chairman is paid more than 49 states' governor. The Mayor said that the council members did not take a 3-5% cost of living adjustment last year, and that their pay, like everyone else, will be cut through furloughs.
See "Council poised to enact unpaid furlough for city workers", Tim Craig, The Washington Post, December 6, 2010