From Sen. Richard Burr's blog:

It’s easy for Members of Congress to spend the people’s money without much thought to the overall cost–just look at congressional pay. As the law is currently written, Congress has to hold a vote to disapprove an automatic pay raise. As you can guess, these votes don’t occur too often. In fact, a raise has only been disapproved once since 2000, and only six times total since the law was established in 1975. To help bring some perspective to those who are crafting the law, I am introducing an amendment to the “stimulus” legislation that would eliminate automatic congressional pay adjustments. With every American family tightening belts in these tough times, Congress needs to follow suit. 

Since Sen. Burr is a home boy from Winston-Salem and a Wake Forest grad I have a pre-disposition to liking him, but it's his approach to his position that I've really liked.  I think this is a very smart amendment, especially considering what Congress is asking everyone else in the country to sacrifice to get the economy turned around.  Yes it's largely symbolic, but that's the point.