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Senate Panel Backs 3.5 Percent Military Raise
 By Tom Shoop | Thursday, May 24, 2007  |  06:44 PM

The Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday approved a 3.5 percent pay raise for members of the military. The committee backed the portion of the 2008 Defense authorization bill containing the 3.5 percent increase during a markup that is expected to end Friday. The 3.5 percent figure, which the House already has approved, is half a percent higher than the raise proposed by the Bush administration. It likely will give federal labor unions an edge in pushing for an equivalent raise for civilian federal employees. This year's civilian federal pay raise is likely to be included in the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, expected to be marked up in June.--Brittany Ballenstedt



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really don't see retention as a priority. I see a lot of lip service about how XXXX many will retire in the next decade or two, but I think this will be a force shaping exercise that allows for more contractors and less civil service.

I  | Friday, May 25, 2007 |  06:03 PM


Most deserved; please move it forward. Thanks.

Theodore C Knorr Jr.  | Friday, May 25, 2007 |  11:27 AM


If it is adopted, we still won't be close to the 5% within each locality that should have been achieved years ago. Doesn't congress realized that if we work for less year after year that our retirement will also be less than the private sector, or don't they care? Retention of good qualified employees will become more and more difficult.

Paul N. Jones  | Thursday, May 24, 2007 |  10:11 PM



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