As Opposition leader, Williams donated his legislative salary to charity.

The question of how much members of Congress should be paid is very current, what with criticisms of the latest effort to raise legislative salaries.

While Chairman, he worked to enforce a freeze on legislative salaries and rejected any increase in compensation during his four years leading the Board.

The basic legislative salary is $27,950, but committee heads earn additional sums of $6,000 to $9,000.

Tomblin did not participate in legislative business or accept his legislative salary while acting as governor.

She believes the pensions should be based only on the $10,400 legislative salary instead of the salary plus lawmakers' $12,000 annual expense allowance.

A hearing on legislative salaries is scheduled for Monday.

The low legislative salary caused Craig to decide to not run for reelection to his Assembly seat in 1936.

Another issue expected to be debated in the session is legislative salaries.

For more than a decade, legislative salaries were frozen because the Legislature feared the political repercussions of raising them.