Claim: "A part-time Congress with half the pay would still make $38,000 a year more than the average American family."
Fact-check: Rick Perry says members of Congress with half their pay would still make $38,000 more than typical family
Verdict: mostly-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Meghan Ashford-Grooms
Date published: 2011-12-01T00:00:00