(WHTM) — It certainly seems the pressure is building on Pennsylvania lawmakers to get the budget job done. Counties are sounding the alarm to negotiators, and one lawmaker said if they can't get money out to the people who need it, then they shouldn't get any either.

"It's disheartening," said Rep. Jim Haddock (D-Luzerne). "Here we are, 55, 56 days later, and we don't have a budget, and people are complacent about it."

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To break the complacency and shake up the process, Haddock is sponsoring a bipartisan bill to suspend the pay of lawmakers, the governor and the lieutenant governor if a budget isn't done.

"Once it's signed by the governor, we would get our back pay, so we wouldn't lose any money, but we would feel the pa

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