STATE HOUSE – House Speaker Robert DeLeo and Senate President Stanley Rosenberg would see their salaries increase by $45,000 a year and the governor's compensation package would grow by 65 percent under a comprehensive package of pay raises introduced by legislative leaders on Monday.
The raises put forward by DeLeo and Rosenberg would increase pay, in some manner, for all 200 legislators on Beacon Hill as well as for the state's six statewide constitutional officers and judges. Members of leadership and committee chairs would be in line for substantial pay hikes, while all lawmakers would see their office expense budgets increase.
(CNSNews.com) – President Donald Trump today signed a memorandum reinstating President Ronald Reagan's Mexico City policy, which prohibits the U.S. Agency for International Development from giving any U.S. tax dollars to non-governmental institutions that refuse to certify in writing that they will neither perform nor promote abortions.
Trump signed the memorandum in a ceremony in the Oval Office at the same time he signed memoranda ordering a freeze on the hiring of federal government employees—except for the military—and removing the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal.
