Lawmakers should not be paid more for extra session

Sen. Joe Zarelli, R-Ridgefield, has introduced prudent legislation that would deny lawmakers expense money for hastily called special sessions.

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When state lawmakers convened in Olympia in January they had 60 days to reach agreement on how to deal with a $2.8 billion revenue shortfall in the current budget. They failed. And, as a result, Gov. Chris Gregoire has called senators and representatives back to Olympia for an overtime session beginning Monday — at a cost of about $20,000 a day. Taxpayers should be outraged.
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Posted by wondering at 03/14/10 11:23AM        Post ID#: #156

This is an outrage.Our lawmakers should have gotten the job done in the alloted time they were given.We the tax payers should not be paying for their "ineptitude" to do the job we hired them to do.I know that we in the private sector have to "get er done" so maybe it's time they do the same.
Besides that they are making MEGA bucks anyway!

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