Answer: An image shared on book more than 32,000 times claims members of Congress receive full-pay retirement benefits after serving just one term. Members of Congress must serve at least five years to qualify for a pension. Under federal law, they do not receive pensions equal to full pay, according to the Congressional Research Service.
Reconstruction ended the remnants of Confederate secession and abolished slavery, making the newly freed slaves citizens with civil rights ostensibly guaranteed by three new constitutional amendments.
Outside park boundaries the majority of these streams are used for irrigation; some water evaporates or percolates into the alluvium before reaching the valley bottom. None of the water flows outside of the Great Basin hydrologic basin.
