Alaska legislators propose bills to reject their own pay raises

The Alaska House and Senate are divided on whether lawmakers should receive a 67% pay raise, alongside a roughly 20% raise for the governor and his cabinet. Several lawmakers introduced or signaled their support on Wednesday for bills that would reject the pay increases proposed by an independent compensation commission whose process some lawmakers called “flawed” and “clumsy,” even as Senate majority members continued to defend the commission’s recommendations. Members of the House minority, the House majority and the Senate minority all said they would introduce legislation to nullify the...