Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Debate in the House over federal employee pay

Article Title: Congress's pay raises have varied widely
Snippet of Article: "...Under a 1989 law, members of Congress receive an automatic annual raise, based on a labor cost index, unless Congress rejects the raise. Also under the law, a raise for Congress cannot exceed that year's base federal employee raise -- excluding locality-based pay...."


Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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