He also raised his pay from $600,000 a year to nearly $1.8 million.
He has only one chance left to raise next year's pay.
The bill would raise their pay to at least $10 an hour by 2006.
"Come to Washington and vote to raise your own pay."
Where's the money for raising pay and creating jobs going to come from?
The new contract raises average pay to $28 to $29 a day.
At the same time, members of Congress began considering raising their own pay.
It would also have made him a full-time executive and raised his pay by $24,000 to about $70,000.
Sprint has raised its starting pay to $8.25 an hour.
"At the end of the day the simplest thing to do would be to raise their pay," he said.