My man, Russ...

and THIS is only part of why i'm drawn more and more to this guy...

Q: You don’t take pay raises on principle, right?

RF: I only take a pay raise when I’m reelected. So for six years, if there’s any pay raises, I write a check every two weeks to the federal treasury. It has cost me, hmm, about 60,000 bucks.

Q: And do you also have rules about what your staff can do?

RF: They have to follow the zero-tolerance-for-freebies rule.

Q: That’s not the way they do business in Washington.

RF: Noooo. In fact, my latest routine is when somebody—you know, on the floor of the Senate, I’m going, “Look, we really shouldn’t have free meals bought by others.” And some senator says, “Well, how am I gonna have dinner with my friend the banker?” And I say, “This is how. [opens wallet, takes out Visa card] You take this thing out and you say to the waiter, ‘Would you be willing to give us separate checks?’ And you split the bill.”

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