Cardiac Cycle: 1st Systole Phase. During the systole phase, the right ventricle receives impulses from the Purkinje fibers and contracts. The atrioventricular valves close and the semilunar valves open. The de-oxygenated blood is pumped into the pulmonary artery.
Congressional Salaries. As of 2012, the annual salary for any congressman, from first-term representatives to the most senior members -- except those holding leadership positions -- was set at $174,000. This was the compensation level set as of January 1, 2009, and frozen by law in the intervening years.
There are 30,218 federal employees making at least $175,000 per yearâor more than a current Member of Congress. With the large egos often accompanying those in elected positions, it probably rankles people in these positions to make less than these 30,000 federal employees make.ased on recently released data from the Internal Revenue Service from 2011 tax returns, it takes an adjusted gross income of $388,905 or more to be in the top 1% of income earners in the United States.