Lawmakers’ per diems: Do the dollars make sense?…
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Can anyone provide guidance on how to most quickly get this information on our state reps?
Since we pay the per diems, how do we stop them? I find it odd that these people vote on their own salary, increases, bonuses, WAMS, and per diems……does anyone else in any other field get to do all that?
I believe that Willie Brown's assistants, Brady and Rendell, get to do that.
These per diems only make sense in the land of make believe, aka Harrisburg. They seem to just make it up as they go along, and believe what ever they need to believe to somehow justify or advance their position. Facts are irrelevant.
No! The per diems do not make sense. What's even worse is that they are not constitutional, but then again, neither are the Legislature's pensions, cars, health care and other benefits – please see below..
Article II – THE LEGISLATURE
Section 8. Compensation – The members of the General Assembly shall receive such salary and mileage for regular and special sessions as shall be fixed by law, and no other compensation whatever, whether for service upon committee or otherwise. No member of either House shall during the term for which he may have been elected, receive any increase of salary, or mileage, under any law passed during such term.
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