Joseph Scarnati

==Background==
* (717)-787-7084 	Republican 	Jefferson 
==Insights==
===Rock the Capital===
* Will repay (Senator Scaranti’s ’s office: 12/6/05.)
* Senator Scarnati voted for the 2005 pay raise and accepted “unvouchered expenses.”
Senators Vincent Hughes and Joseph Scarnati have seen their salaries soar to $106,986, or 54 percent - a far bigger percentage boost than any other legislator gets.
Under a little-noticed provision, the pay-raise law gives Senate deputy whips - new positions now held by Hughes and Scarnati - the same pay as those in certain other long-standing leadership posts. Their pay rose so sharply because, unlike other ranking members, they had been collecting the base legislative pay of $69,648 before the new law.
Senate Republicans had no such position until the pay raise. Scarnati was appointed several weeks after the raises became law. (Philadelphia Inquirer, September 3, 2005.)
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