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Date Added: June 18, 2008 05:16:05 AM

Six of nine St. Tammany Parish area legislators voted in favor of their own pay raise last week in what would be the first pay hike for Louisiana lawmakers since 1980. But it won't be clear until early this week if the money will actually hit lawmakers' pocketbooks.

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