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Obama Shrinks Pay Increases for Federal Employees
By David Sessions - Politics DailyPresident Obama blocked routine pay raises scheduled for federal employees in 2010, holding increases to 2 percent instead of the previously planned 18.9 percent. Statutory formulas raise federal wages annually under the Federal Employees Pay Comparability Act of 1990, but presidents frequently take advantage of a loophole that allows them to present an "alternative" plan to reduce costs. Obama declared a state of "national emergency" in a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, citing rising unemployment and the strain the raises would place on a federal budget that is already stretched ...
Why a Doctor in Congress Has No Health Insurance
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyRep. Steve Kagen is a doctor, a Democrat and, as far as his office has been able to determine, the only member of Congress who does not have any kind of health insurance. The way he describes it, it happened as an afterthought. It was late 2006. He was finishing his new-member orientation in the basement of the Cannon House Office Building and hurrying to make a plane. A woman stopped him and said, "Hang on a minute -- don't you want to hear about the benefits?" Then, he recalls, she showed him "a whole cafeteria" of health insurance plans available to him and his family because he was now a ...
Federal Employee Pay Raises Reduced
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyInvoking his authority to set an alternative pay schedule for Federal employees in times of national emergency, President Bush has scaled back scheduled pay raises for thousands of Federal government employees. Federal employees are scheduled to receive an across the board pay raise of 2.5% at the beginning of next year, which will remain in effect. But many were also slated to receive cost-of-living adjustments averaging 12.5% on top of the general wage increase. That would have brought the total pay raise for some Federal employees to 15% next year.President Bush has eliminated the ...
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