They cannot be used, he said, to supplement the allowance each legislator gets for his or her district office.

In return, every year each legislator gets a one-year scholarship to award to a Louisiana resident.

Other legislators demanded and got breaks for favored constituencies.

He only gets one vote that might ultimately mean that legislators get to write the laws.

Favored interest groups and legislators will get most of this pork.

But the legislators did not get to vote on the lease.

State officials say it may be early 1991 before the legislators get the revised list.

Let legislators get their own coffee, though: it may be their only brush with humility.

These items are not illegal - unless, of course, the legislators or their families get something of personal value in return.

He tells of deals that fell through when Democratic legislators got pressure from teachers' union leaders and other educators.