"To the victor belong the spoils," New York Governor and U.S. Senator William Learned Marcy famously said in 1832.
It's a lesson Democrats are learning: as they ascend into the Senate majority, so too, have their positions of power and paychecks.
Democrats now occupy Senate's many leadership positions and committee chairmanships, replacing the Republicans who were in power all but one of the last 70 years.
The positions come with stipends -- popularly known as "lulus" -- that augment the senators' base legislative salary of $79,500.
Minority leadership positions also come with lulus, but they are less than those of the majority, ranging …
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