{"id":291690,"date":"2019-01-11T16:31:49","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T06:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=291690"},"modified":"2019-01-11T16:31:49","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T06:31:49","slug":"crossed-fingers-on-new-salary-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/crossed-fingers-on-new-salary-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING NEWS: Crossed fingers on new salary bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The bill to establish a new salary for lawmakers will once again head to the governor&#8217;s desk, with the CNMI Senate hoping that it will be the last time to discuss this piece of legislation.<\/p>\n<p>The Office of the Governor has already twice vetoed similar legislations after concerns were raised about how the bills passed the Legislature.<\/p>\n<p>House Bill 20-197 sets the lawmakers&#8217; annual compensation at $32,000 per annum.<\/p>\n<p>Without that bill, the lawmakers&#8217; salaries would plummet to $8,000 per annum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bill to establish a new salary for lawmakers will once again head to the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":291691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1355,94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}