Word: assemblymen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...results of the balloting, however, promise to give recurring headaches to Figueiredo and his conservative Social Democratic Party (P.D.S.). In the process of choosing thousands of city councilors, mayors, state assemblymen, federal congressmen, senators and state governors, the voters delivered an unmistakable rebuff to the military-sponsored authoritarian regime. At week's end, results were still trickling in from the balloting exercise, in which voters in Brazil's remote Amazonian hinterlands were forced to travel by truck, airplane or even dugout canoe in order to register their electoral preference...
...universal. California's state legislators have seen fit to spare one group from the draconian reductions: themselves. While the expenditures in real dollars on social services have decreased, the money for the legislature has doubled since 1975 and ballooned by a third this year alone. California's assemblymen and senators spend more on their own care and feeding than lawmakers in any other state...
...appearance sake, the lawmakers have kept their salaries relatively modest: $28,000 a year. The fat-in rich, deep veins-lies elsewhere. Each of the 40 senators and 80 assemblymen gets an addition al $50 a day tax free while the legislature's work is under way: an average of $12,000 apiece this year. Each lawmaker receives a monthly car allowance of $265 plus a gasoline credit card to use without limit. Many collect an extra $6 for custom car washes. There are other travel perquisites: many legislators traveled to Washington at state expense to lobby Congress...