{"id":362729,"date":"2022-02-22T12:56:58","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T02:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=362729"},"modified":"2022-02-22T12:56:58","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T02:56:58","slug":"breaking-news-house-rejects-senate-version-of-bill-that-gives-1000-bonus-to-govt-retirees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/breaking-news-house-rejects-senate-version-of-bill-that-gives-1000-bonus-to-govt-retirees\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING NEWS: House rejects Senate version of bill that gives $1,000 bonus to gov\u2019t retirees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The House of Representatives unanimously voted today, Tuesday, to reject the Senate\u2019s version of a bill that gives a $1,000 bonus for government retirees.<\/p>\n<p>All 20 representatives agreed to the creation of a conference committee that will hammer out with the Senate a mutually acceptable bill for retirees\u2019 bonuses. The House earlier passed the bill with a $500 bonus for retirees but the Senate increased the amount to $1,000.<\/p>\n<p>Democrat representatives opposed a language in the Senate\u2019s version that will give Gov. Ralph DLG Torres\u2019 100% reprogramming authority of the funds.<\/p>\n<p>More details to follow.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House of Representatives unanimously voted today, Tuesday, to reject the Senate\u2019s version of a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":355302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1355],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362729","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}