Posted on 01/25/2012 9:05:37 AM PST by Tribune7
The (Pa) House Committee on State Government, yesterday, Jan. 24, voted overwhelmingly to send to the House floor a bill that would cut representation in Harrisburg.
The bill, HB 153, would cut the number of representatives in the State House from 203 to 153. It would leave the membership of the state Senate unchanged at 50.
The bill would also mandate that counties, municipalities and wards not be divided in forming a senatorial or representative district which would about the only bright side of this wealth and power grab.
The argument for the bill is to cut cost since the base pay for a Pennsylvania legislator is $$82,026, and, yes, fewer legislators would mean spending less money. Of course, if saving money was really the motive, maybe they would have first thought of cutting their extremely generous pay and benefits rather than representation.
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PA has more congress critters per capita than any state and it's a good move.
This move will save $ 4million in critter salaries, plus office staffs, expenses, healthcare, pensions and on and on... tens of millions in savings.
This is a great direction and only demonRATs are crying {because they are going to lose the most districts, hehehehehe}.
With this change, the demonRATs will have to wait until 3012 to win back the house in PA.
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