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Article Title: VA care opens for Lejeune vets, families
Snippet of Article: "...To be eligible, patients must show they spent at least 30 days at Lejeune from Jan. 1, 1957, to Dec. 31, 1987, or they were in utero during that period with mothers residing on base. They also must have one or more of the following:..."
Article Title: Federal employee issues deferred by Congress
Snippet of Article: "...no federal raise will be paid in January, one still is possible. The White House favors a 0.5 percent raise in April, while federal employee unions are pushing for such an increase to be made retroactive to the start of 2013. A continued freeze through all of 2013 also is possible...."
Article Title: Romney wishes some feds weren’t unionized
Snippet of Article: "...“I wish they weren’t unionized, so we could go a lot deeper than you’re actually allowed to go,” Romney responded, before giving his broader view..."
Article Title: Mitt Romney: No apologies, but 'victims' comment not elegantly stated
Snippet of Article: "...Romney plans no apology for stating that nearly half of Americans "believe that they are victims." Instead, he is expected to respond to questions about the statement by reinforcing the message he delivered at a hastily called news conference Monday night, in which he said Obama favors "a government-centered society"..."
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Article Title: 2012 Federal Employee Salary Tables and Related Information
Snippet of Article: "...the Office of Personnel Management provides policy leadership and expertise on a variety of Governmentwide pay programs for Federal employees, including the General Schedule (GS), Law Enforcement Officer Pay Schedules, and the Federal Wage System (FWS). For more information on the General Schedule and Law Enforcement Officer pay Tables, agencies may email at Pay-Leave-Policy@opm.gov. ..."
Article Title: Cuts could hit programs, federal employment
Snippet of Article: "...Earlier, the House passed a more wide-ranging package of spending cuts that would require all federal employees to pay an additional 5 percent of salary toward their retirement annuities, phased in over five years. The House also has endorsed steps including a 10 percent reduction in the federal workforce through attrition and extending the freeze on federal salary rates...."
Article Title: GOP leaders made ‘big mistake’ agreeing to sequester
Snippet of Article: "...Republicans had used the debt ceiling to try to force Obama to rein in spending and later touted the $2.2 trillion in spending reductions including those in the sequester. The House last spring passed a bill to replace the automatic cuts with a series of cuts to social programs but Democrats have balked because the measure does not contain new taxes...."
Article Title: Judge upholds government's claim to $80M in rare gold coins found in safe deposit box
Article Title: Group: FAA bosses urged workers to vote Democrat
Snippet of Article: "...Cause of Action argues that the managers violated rules that certain federal employees cannot engage in partisan politics at the workplace...."
Article Title: Employee bias complaints down, waits up
Snippet of Article: "...The number of cases awaiting hearings was up 12 percent and has grown by nearly half since fiscal 2007, topping 8,000. Meanwhile, the number of appeals to the commission rose by 14 percent to almost 5,200, and processing time there rose by 30 percent to 378 days. About 4,300 cases are pending there, up by 18 percent from 2010 and up by about a quarter since 2007...."
Article Title: Democrat TSA Shutdown | Wasted Union Dues: AFGE Silent on Democrat Attack on Unionized TSA Workers The disgusting AF...
