I could not get the Legislature to vote on it.
This is what the Legislature voted to do last week.
The next Legislature meets in 2009 and could vote to take up the issue then.
And for over a decade, the Legislature has voted against them.
Today's measure requiring the Legislature to vote would add yet another step.
The legislature voted against doing so fourteen times during the same period.
The legislature voted to end all judicial terms in 1810.
But two weeks ago, the Legislature voted against allowing the department to spend the money.
The Legislature voted $42 million for the state's residential program in 1990.
The state judges really do need raises, and the Legislature should vote on them next week.