Saturday, April 22, 2006

INTERNATIONAL: Guam

Members of the Senate in Guam (a US territory) have introduced legislation to convert their legislature to a part-time one. There have been three articles on this in their local media: one in Local Television KUAM, and two in the Guam Pacific Daily News (first article link, second article link).

Here is a good quote from one of the articles:
Do our 15 senators even need to be full-time employees? Do we need to pay them $55,000 salaries, give them retirement and health-insurance benefits, as well as money to rent offices and pay a full-time staff in order for them to do their jobs? According to a bill introduced by Republican Sen. Robert Klitzkie, the answer to that question is an emphatic "NO."