{"id":47837,"date":"1998-06-01T01:43:56","date_gmt":"1998-06-01T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/dominican-congressmen-are-best-paid-in-government\/"},"modified":"1998-06-01T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"1998-06-01T01:43:56","slug":"dominican-congressmen-are-best-paid-in-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/1998\/06\/01\/dominican-congressmen-are-best-paid-in-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominican congressmen are best paid in government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dominican congressmen are the best paid Dominican government officers.  The List&iacute;n Diario reports that the 149 deputies and 30 senators  that will begin work 16 August 1998 will receive RD$77,000 a month per  salary, diet and representation expenses. They also have the right to a  diplomatic passport and two unlimited vehicle tax exemptions.  The List&iacute;n  estimates these exemptions can command up to US$50,000 on the market. More  so, the List&iacute;n mentions that several congressmen are known for accepting  or soliciting payments for the passing of bills. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dominican congressmen are the best paid Dominican government officers. The List&iacute;n Diario reports that the 149 deputies and 30 senators that will begin work 16 August 1998 will receive RD$77,000 a month per salary, diet and representation expenses. They also have the right to a diplomatic passport and two unlimited vehicle tax exemptions. The List&iacute;n &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/1998\/06\/01\/dominican-congressmen-are-best-paid-in-government\/\" 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":[11,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47837"}],"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=47837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}