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.
However, they scrapped this idea because being in session took them away from their other jobs. The congressman salary was $6 per day in session. But the congress salary changed permanently to yearly salaries in 1855. How much a senator makes does not include allowances, though. Allowances for senators include money to pay their staff, job-related expenses (stationery, domestic travel and lodging, etc.), franking privilege (not having to pay for stamps if mailing to a US citizen), and foreign travel (air craft provided by the military).