BATON ROUGE (AP) — Lawmakers questioned $70 million in pay raises that state agencies are giving employees next year. Members of the House Appropriations Committee said Wednesday that too many employees are getting salary bumps without a comprehensive review of their performance. Government employment rules allow agencies to give their workers a “merit pay” increase each year based on their annual evaluations. But the salary boost can’t be less than 4 percent, and the raises are largely automatic.