{"id":44197,"date":"1999-01-15T01:43:56","date_gmt":"1999-01-15T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/senate-to-add-new-perks\/"},"modified":"1999-01-15T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"1999-01-15T01:43:56","slug":"senate-to-add-new-perks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/1999\/01\/15\/senate-to-add-new-perks\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate to add new perks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Already possessing one of the jobs with the best benefits in the DR, it appears that Republic&#146;s 30 Senators want more. The news daily Hoy, citing a reliable inside source, reports that the Senate is proposing to give each Senator a double-cabin light truck to use as they please, a 100% raise in their travel allowances, and RD$10,000 per month to be handed out to constituents as school scholarships. Senators already receive a base salary of RD$70,000 a month, travel benefits on airlines, a chauffeur paid by the Senate, tax-free importation of two vehicles, a gas allowance, and diplomatic passports for them and their families. This month they will also get to open provincial offices paid for and equipped by the national treasury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Already possessing one of the jobs with the best benefits in the DR, it appears that Republic&#146;s 30 Senators want more. The news daily Hoy, citing a reliable inside source, reports that the Senate is proposing to give each Senator a double-cabin light truck to use as they please, a 100% raise in their travel &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/1999\/01\/15\/senate-to-add-new-perks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44197"}],"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=44197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}