{"id":103066,"date":"2017-08-24T11:45:28","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T15:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=103066"},"modified":"2017-08-24T11:45:28","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T15:45:28","slug":"senators-approve-major-income-increases-for-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2017\/08\/24\/senators-approve-major-income-increases-for-themselves\/","title":{"rendered":"Senators approve major income increases for themselves"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_103053\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-103053\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-103053\" src=\"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Senate-Hoy-300x228.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-103053\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Hoy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The National Senate yesterday, 23 August 2017, fast-tracked a bill that provides significant wage increases and other benefits and increases the Senate budget in the 2018 National Budget to US$2.6 billion. The initiative was presented by president of the Senate Reinaldo Pared P\u00e9rez (PLD-National District). The senators had done the same in 2016, in time for the preparation of the 2017 National Budget.<\/p>\n<p>Morning talk show hosts observed upon reading about the increase that the country would be better off without the very costly 32 senators.<\/p>\n<p>24 August 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Senate yesterday, 23 August 2017, fast-tracked a bill that provides significant wage increases and other benefits and increases the Senate budget in the 2018 National Budget to US$2.6 billion. The initiative was presented by president of the Senate Reinaldo Pared P\u00e9rez (PLD-National District). The senators had done the same in 2016, in time &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2017\/08\/24\/senators-approve-major-income-increases-for-themselves\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103066"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}