Rep. Rodney Davis' bill would end Jesse Jackson Jr. workers' comp pay

Rep. Rodney Davis, R-Ill., is filing a bill on Wednesday to ban former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., D-Ill., from collecting about $100,000 a year in workers’ compensation —for an unspecified job-related injury — because he was convicted of looting his campaign fund.

“We want to make sure that anybody convicted of a crime, be that Congressman Jackson or any member of Congress, is not able to submit a claim for workers’ compensation at the same time,” Davis told the Chicago Sun-Times.

Members of Congress “should be held to a higher standard because our job is something that we willingly ask the voters to send us to,” Davis said.

The measure, to be titled “Protecting Taxpayers from Corruption Act,” would change the law so that any member of Congress who converts campaign funds to personal use — Jackson’s crime — would forfeit eligibility for workers’ compensation.

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