Proposal to cut travel is tabled
Friday, April 25, 2003 | 9:12 a.m.
CARSON CITY -- A legislative panel on Thursday tabled a plan that would cut lawmakers' travel and membership dues to national organizations.
Lorne Malkiewich, director of the Legislative Counsel Bureau that provides staff for the Legislature, proposed allowing lawmakers to take only one trip a year to a national meeting, rather than the current two.
But the Legislative Commission, composed of an equal number of senators and Assembly members, split on the issue.
Malkiewich said his proposal would save $100,000 next fiscal year and $75,000 the following year. The proposed policy change, he said, would not apply to lawmakers in leadership positions or chairmen of committees in national organizations, such as the National Conference of State Legislatures and the Council of State Governments.
Assembly Majority Leader Barbara Buckley, D-Las Vegas, opposed the policy, saying it would hurt the freshmen who do not have campaign funds to use for travel. She described them as "bright and eager" and said they would "lose the opportunity to learn about other issues" and solutions achieved in other states.
archive
- Most Read
- Discussed
- Most E-mailed
- Shooting in parking lot of CVS leaves man dead
- Man, 26, dies in collision with truck traveling at 100 mph
- Holiday shoppers skip turkey for Strip stores
- Nevada’s just not for us, many top high schoolers say
- Casino venue in Singapore will have Las Vegas flavor
- CityCenter completion might spur home foreclosures
- Fontainebleau retail component seeks bankruptcy
- MGM Mirage: CityCenter not affected by debt woes
- Holiday Auction 2009 items
- Real estate experts cautiously optimistic about market
Blogs
The Kats Report
Could a savior of shuttered Las Vegas Art Museum be ... Peter Max? (5 Comments)
For Paul Stanley and KISS, rock and roll is not over (5 Comments)
Twenty years ago today, Human Nature took root on the farm (1 Comment)
Robin Leach's Las Vegas Celebrity Watch
Photo Gallery: Donny Osmond’s triumphant return to the Flamingo
The Kats Report
'DWTS' champ Donny Osmond still deft afoot in return to Flamingo (8 Comments)
Politics: The Early Line
Meeting of GOP governors draws challengers, not Gibbons (5 Comments)
Politics: Ralston's Flash
Oscar loves forcing developers to sign labor peace agreements, Culinary loves the city's downtown plans and all is forgiven (10 Comments)
Calendar »
- 28 Sat
- 29 Sun
- 30 Mon
- 1 Tue
- 2 Wed
-
KISS at the Pearl
The Pearl at the Palms
-
Christopher "Kid" Reid at the LA Comedy Club
LA Comedy Club @ Trader Vic's
-
Stevie Wonder at MGM Grand
MGM Grand Garden Arena | 8 p.m. to 11 p.m.
-
UNLV Rebels vs. Louisville at the Thomas & Mack Center
The Thomas & Mack Center | 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
-
Joe Perry Project at the House of Blues
House of Blues | 8 p.m. to 11:59 p.m.
-
Vicente Fernandez at the Mandalay Bay Events Center
Mandalay Bay Events Center | 9 p.m. to 11 p.m.
-
Jay Leno at The Mirage
Terry Fator Theatre
The Sun
Locally owned and independent for more than 50 years.
Technorati










