Amid all the election festivities, there is one story that hasn't been reported with much prominence: the resignation of Bob Ney from Congress.

He announced that he had reached a plea agreement with federal officials on September 15th. He resigned on November 3rd, meaning that he took his Congressional salary of $452.60 per day for 50 days before tendering his resignation. During that time, he earned what for some people constitutes an entire year's worth of salary, $22,630.

He took advantage of his position of power and bilked the taxpayers out of their hard-earned money. In refusing to resign for so long, he took advantage of a Congress that was out of session and unable to forcibly expel him from the body.

Bob Ney and his kind are the reason that we need to stop giving Congressional pensions to convicted felons!