Rep. Darrell Bolz, R-Caldwell, said he wasn't surprised at the unanimous roll-call vote on his measure to reject legislative pay increases. In fact, two Democratic lawmakers had already announced, before the legislative session, that they would introduce such legislation. Bolz beat them to it. He had also hoped to reject pay raises for statewide elected officials, but when he requested an Attorney General's opinion on that in December, he found out he couldn't - the Constitution requires those pay amounts to be set before the officials take office, and not changed during their terms. As far as rejecting legislative raises, Bolz said, "I don't think there's any opposition to it, at least on the House side."

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