I plan on voting them out but I heard on the radio this morning in Harrisburg that bills have been presented to roll back the payraise.
I may not have heard correctly but In regard to the unvouchered expenses, the senate's bill already passed like 50-zip. On the house side there were 2 against. I understood it to mean just the unvouchered expenses. Today it sounds like the whole enchilada will be up for reversal. They mentioned a vote in about two weeks.
I'm still going to vote to whack'em for putting us through this.
Dang, I got it wrong...
Pa. Senate Approves Repeal of Pay Raise
Thursday November 3, 2005 4:31 AM
By MARC LEVY
Associated Press Writer
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - Responding to months of public uproar, Pennsylvania lawmakers on Wednesday voted to repeal a July law that gave big pay raises to lawmakers, judges and senior executive branch officials.
``I think the people were heard on this,'' said Republican Sen. John Rafferty. ``It was too much (money) in one shot, and that was heard loud and clear.''
The Senate voted unanimously to repeal the law Wednesday evening, and the House followed suit several hours later, approving the bill 196-2 with little debate. Since the House amended the measure, another vote by the Senate will be required.
The repeal's sponsor in the Senate, Democrat Sean Logan, said the action would ``restore some integrity'' that lawmakers lost in passing the bill in the middle of the night without debate or public notice.
See more:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5388913,00.html
The PA House and Senate passed two different versions, so nothing has changed. The House added a clause that could re-instate the pay raise. We need to vote them out!
As I understand it, the bills would make the payraise constitutional namely that it would take effect after an election as would be required.
It was still inexcusable for the legislature to pass it in the first place and exponentially more inexusable for our Supreme Court to find the passing constitutional.
Legislators won't be up for re-election until next year.
Vote the judges out Nov. 8!!!!!!!