Fiscal responsibility is an axiom in Harrisburg, but nearly none of Pennsylvania’s 253 state lawmakers seem to mind when their own salaries swell spending.
Lawmakers can return the increase to the state treasurer, but records obtained by Spotlight PA show very few do.
Just six state lawmakers — Sens. Kristin Phillips-Hill and Pat Stefano , and Reps. Greg Rothman , Frank Ryan , Tim Bonner , and Patty Kim — have given back at least a portion of their annual pay raises in the last four years. She told Spotlight PA that giving back the pay raise is her attempt to stay true to her initial run for office as a self-described reformer, one she’s tried to follow “no matter how challenging it would be.”
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