Patrick Morrisey: “No, I think that [locality pay] requires a statutory change.”

“And everything that we do is what's going to allow us to compete more effectively with all of our competitive states. Is it within your authority to do an executive order for locality pay? No, I think that [locality pay] requires a statutory change. And so I know that one of the comments I've heard from folks across West Virginia, especially in the Eastern Panhandle, is that a lot of the positions here, whether …” (17:57–18:02)

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