Sentences with phrase «chairmen lulus»

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Mr. Flanagan and his counsel, David Lewis, have strenuously argued that the practice is supported by state law and precedent, noting that it began in March 2015, when Mr. Skelos asked that two vice chairmen receive lulus diverted from their actual committee chairman.

In fact, he ranks 4th in the state for salary plus «lulus» because he is chairman of the Senate Finance Committee.

He also doles out Assembly leadership positions, which come with cash bonuses known as «lulus,» and his handpicked allies become the chairmen of the key committees that determine which bills come to the floor.

Funneling the payments to vice chairmen is not explicitly permitted by law, though Senate leadership and lawyers have tried to prove that there is a legal and constitutional basis for such stipends, commonly known as «lulus.»

Senate Democrats tried to push a motion that going forward would bar the stipends meant for committee chairmen — known as lulus — from being paid to anyone else.

(The actual chairmen were already collecting bigger «lulus» for other jobs, and the rules don't let you collect two.)

They've seen no increase in their $ 79,500 base pay since 1999, although many earn more salary through «lulus» or stipends for additional duties such as serving as chairmen of committees.