The Twenty-seventh Amendment
A) provides for Congress to vote itself a pay raise.
B) provides for Congress and the executives to vote themselves a pay raise.
C) provides for a 10 percent increase in congressional and executive pay.
D) prohibits Congress from voting itself a pay raise; the amendment provides that any vote to increase congressional salaries cannot take effect until after the next Congress is elected.
E) was repealed in 2000.
D
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