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Podcast: Cascade CounterPoint
Episode: QP: Legislators Can Work Less Instead of Asking for More Pay
Description: Full Text: Everyone loves getting a raise. Our Oregon state legislators are no exception. Recently, a large group of senators and representatives tried to increase their yearly salary from $33,000 to around $63,000. The proposed pay increase would have made Oregon’s state legislature the highest paid part-time legislature in the United States.
Even though Oregon’s legislature only meets for a fraction of the year, proponents of the raise argue that being a representative is actually a full-time job. Serving in the legislature, though, wasn’t always so demanding.
For most of the state’s history, Oregon h...