Using the comments section below, vote for your favorite caption until 5 p.m. ET Thursday.

Here are this week’s finalists:

• They went to the PACs, To raise them some bread;
  When they came back, The lesser off were dead!
• C’Mon, throw us a bone.
• It’s time to teach you to beg.
• Good thing I got my pay raise before this happened.
• Empty stomachs, sure, but at least our pockets are lined.

The cartoon with the winning caption will appear on this blog on Sunday and in the following print edition of Roll Call. The contest winner will receive a signed color print of his or her Capitol Quip cartoon from the cartoonist, R.J. Matson.