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Published: 11/30/10

Everyone Loves the Plan to Freeze Federal Salaries, Right? Think Again

By J. Richard - AOL News

(Nov. 30) -- President Barack Obama's proposed plan to freeze federal salaries over the next two years could save the nation $60 billion over the next decade -- but not everyone is exactly thrilled with the idea. The pay freeze proposal, which would apply to all civilian federal employees (not those in the military) was announced Monday as part of the Obama administration's intensifying effort to scale back government spending amid urgent calls for fiscal responsibility. On the one hand, the initiative represents an important "symbolic gesture to communicate that the president's on the side ...

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Published: 11/29/10

Obama Beats Republicans to the Punch, Proposes Federal Pay Freeze

By Steven Hoffer - AOL News

(Nov. 29) -- In a modest yet conservative-minded decision, President Barack Obama proposed a two-year federal pay freeze on Monday to reduce the nation's rising debt. Should it pass, the salary freeze, which the White House is calling the first of many difficult decisions involving debt-reducing sacrifices, will apply only to civilian federal workers, meaning that it would not affect military personnel. "The hard truth is that getting this deficit under control is going to require some broad sacrifice and that sacrifice must be shared by employees of the federal government," Obama said ...

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Published: 11/10/10

John Boehner Skipping Military Jets, Will Fly Commercial

By Patricia Murphy - Politics Daily

Soon-to-be House Speaker John Boehner promised throughout the campaign season to run the House of Representatives differently from the way Democrats have run it for four years and from the way the last Republican regime conducted business. Now that his party has won enough seats to retake power in the chamber, Boehner began making those changes Wednesday. First on his agenda was the way the speaker travels to and from home: Boehner said he will fly commercial to his Ohio district as he always has. Boehner's decision would be a change in protocol from Nancy Pelosi, who came under fire for ...

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Published: 12/11/09

More Federal Workers Make Six Figures in the Recession

By David Sessions - Politics Daily

The number of federal employees making over $100,000 per year has exploded in the first 18 months of the recession, USA Today reports, sending the total percentage from 14 percent to 19 percent. The highest-paid federal workers are seeing the largest increases: In the same period, the number of civil servants making over $150,000 jumped from 1,868 to 10,100. When the recession began, only one person at the Department of Transportation was making over $170,000. Eighteen months later, 1,690 employees do. The skyrocketing federal pay is systematic, reaching every level in every agency. ...

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