“Let’s face it, $100 a year is just ludicrous.”

New Hampshire House Speaker Sherman Packard, referring to New Hampshire legislators’ annual pay, which has been frozen at that level, the lowest in the nation, since voters etched it into the state’s constitution in 1889. Many past bids to boost lawmakers’ pay by amending the constitution failed, but there is a new bipartisan push to delete the pay language from the constitution. Nationally, state lawmakers’ salaries averaged $47,900 last year, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. (Wall Street Journal)