Congress Leaves Open the Diplomat Pay Gap
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Foreign Service officers looking for pay equity will have to keep waiting.
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Concerned that Congress is moving toward providing a 2.2 percent pay raise for the military next year, a leading veterans' group said that with troops fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, this is not the time to skimp on a raise.
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Americaâs first blind diplomat, Avraham Rabby, spent the last two years surveying Trinidadâs political landscape and composing cables to Washington in Braille.
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The 108th Congress returned to work Tuesday after the longest recess for US lawmakers in more than 50 years, and with not much of a record to show after nearly two years of putting &quot;gotcha&quot; politics ahead of bipartisan legislating.
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Congress returns this week from its summer break with the 2007 federal pay raise as one of several issues up in the air.
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All US states and Washington, DC have narrowed the gap between wages earned by men and women, but no state has eliminated it, according to a study released on Tuesday.
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A movement gaining momentum in Congress and some school systems in the Washington region and beyond would boost pay for exceptional teachers in high-poverty schools, a departure from salary schedules based on seniority and professional degrees that have kept pay in lockstep for decades.
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The gap between the top executiveâs pay and the pay of executives a rank or two down is quickly widening.
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After a decade-long wait, America's lowest-paid workers saw Congress poised Thursday to increase the federal minimum wage by $2.10.
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WASHINGTON -- The Senate cleared the way for an increase in the minimum wage Tuesday, but only with business tax breaks that House Democrats want removed.
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U.S. Rep. Thomas M. Davis III (R-Va.) said yesterday that he will retire from Congress at the end of the year, closing a 14-year stint in the House during which he rose rapidly through the Republican leadership ranks and used his clout to champion local issues, including reviving a nearly bankrupt...
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U.S. lawmakers return to work on  Tuesday from a month-long recess with time running out for  Republicans to pass legislation, impress unhappy voters and  retain control of Congress in the November 7 elections.
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The Pentagon is taking its first big step to break away from the government's primary pay system, sending a strong signal to Defense Department civilian workers that their salaries will increasingly hinge on job performance.
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With little debate, House lawmakers on Tuesday included themselves as part of a pay raise that all federal employees will receive next year.
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The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday passed a compromise measure to increase the federal minimum wage for the first time in a decade -- and provide billions of dollars in tax breaks to help businesses pay for it.
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It has not been a pretty sight on Capitol Hill in the waning hours of Republican control. Once-powerful lawmakers have been shown the door at their own offices, forced to crowd in a basement or other nooks to finish their work, if not their careers. The usual backslapping has given way to back pats as colleagues try to comfort losers who will soon be going home.
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Rep. Dan Boren (Okla.) woke up yesterday morning as one of the few Democrats in Congress who hadn't completely abandoned President Bush on the war. He ended the day the same way.