Senate Committee to Review Salary Bill Next Thursday

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The Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee will review the bill to raise the salaries of lawmakers next Thursday.

The House bill was introduced in the Senate this morning and assigned to the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee chaired by Senator Laolagi Vaeao.

Laolagi announced that the committee will discuss the bill at 8:30 next Thursday morning and said there will be no witnesses called that day.

According to Laolagi the committee members will first review and deliberate on the bill and if they feel witnesses should be called then that will be done.

When the bill was reviewed in the House of Representatives, the House Budget and Appropriations Committee didn’t call any witnesses to testify.

Meanwhile a grassroots movement is mobilizing to protest the bill before the Senate acts on it.

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