Posted on 05/01/2006 1:01:54 PM PDT by SmithL
Capitol employees received some helpful advice last week from the Joint Rules Committee: Bring your lunch today.
One Capitol cafeteria will be closed and another will have limited service in anticipation of today's nationwide one-day boycott of work and school as a protest against federal legislation to increase penalties on illegal immigrants.
The state Senate last week passed a resolution backing the protests, though the Assembly did not vote on it.
Some members won't have to pack lunches for the Capitol.
Both houses usually have a floor session on Mondays, but leaders instead scheduled a "check-in session" today. That allows members to get a $153 per diem payment for setting foot in the Capitol but doesn't require them to attend a scheduled floor meeting - and allows some to go to protests instead.
Former Assemblyman Tony Strickland, a Republican candidate for state controller, said any legislator attending a protest should lose the per diem for the day.
Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez, D-Los Angeles, is scheduled to appear at two rallies in Los Angeles.
"If legislators spend a day with thousands of constituents talking about an issue pending in the Legislature, they ought to get paid to do it," said Steve Maviglio, a Núñez spokesman.
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The state Senate last week passed a resolution backing the protests, though the Assembly did not vote on it.
Both houses usually have a floor session on Mondays, but leaders instead scheduled a "check-in session" today. That allows members to get a $153 per diem payment for setting foot in the Capitol but doesn't require them to attend a scheduled floor meeting - and allows some to go to protests instead.
Puke. Our elected officials make me puke.
FMCDH(BITS)
Illegal aliens are NOT your "constituents," Fabian!
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