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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Obi-Wan" data-source="post: 315446" data-attributes="member: 709"><p><span style="font-family: '-apple-system'"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: '-apple-system'"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: '-apple-system'"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">It's all about them loosing their free ride chuck wagon ride from the lobbyists </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: '-apple-system'"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: '-apple-system'"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: '-apple-system'"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">Kempenich, who has been in the House since 1993, said dinners funded by lobbyists and other groups had gone from “steak and lobster to finger food” during that time. Lawmakers used to joke about the weight they packed on during a session, but this session, he said, the freebie food is nonexisten</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: '-apple-system'"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"></span></span><span style="font-family: '-apple-system'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: '-apple-system'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: '-apple-system'"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">One former lawmaker testified last session that the removal of the lobbyist meals perk was forcing him to develop unhealthy eating habits, including dipping into candy dishes on his colleagues’ desks. Kempenich said he doesn’t expect to gain any extra pounds this session since he now typically eats a can of spaghetti for dinner that costs $1 and he keeps canned food in his desk for lunches.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: '-apple-system'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: '-apple-system'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: '-apple-system'"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">Lawmakers are paid $518 a month and $186 a day during the session. They also receive a housing allowance during the session of more than $1,800 a month and are included on the state-funded employee health plan worth about $1,425 monthly.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: '-apple-system'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: '-apple-system'"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">“We are a citizen legislature,” said Kempenich, whose home is about 200 miles from Bismarck. “It shouldn’t have to cost us money to be here.”</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: '-apple-system'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: '-apple-system'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: '-apple-system'"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">Kempenich’s bill failed in the House two years ago, but he said his fellow lawmakers may support his bill now that the free “feedbag” is no longer available.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: '-apple-system'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: '-apple-system'"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">GOP Senate Majority Leader Rich Wardner, of Dickinson, said he has no “appetite” for such legislation, especially at a time of declining state revenue.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: '-apple-system'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: '-apple-system'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: '-apple-system'"></span></p></blockquote><p></p>

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