Congressional Pay Hike Blocked
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Democratic leaders have been forced to scuttle the 1.7 percent pay hike for the entire year
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Congress's watchdog agency recommended yesterday that former Medicare administrator Thomas Scully reimburse the Health and Human Services Department for roughly half of his $145,600 salary, on grounds that he improperly ordered his agency's top actuary to withhold cost estimates from Congress.
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Federal employees would receive a 3.5 percent pay raise next year under a bill approved by a key House Appropriations subcommittee yesterday.
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The U.S. Congress was forced to pass a temporary measure keeping the government open on Wednesday after one embarrassing clause allowing lawmakers to see individual tax returns held up a crucial &#36;388 billion spending bill.
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Democratic presidential hopeful Bill Richardson wants to link congressional and presidential pay raises to deficit reduction, though he acknowledged Sunday that the idea would never see the light of day.
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The chairman of the House taxwriting committee said Tuesday he would be willing to link tax breaks for small business to a hike in the minimum wage but that the $8 billion tax package adopted by the Senate was unacceptable.
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House Democrats led a revolt Thursday against just-implemented interpretations that critics argue could block millions of workers from overtime pay.
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Republican lawmakers yesterday blocked the Senate from taking up the D.C. vote bill, a potentially fatal setback for the District's most promising effort in years to get a full member of Congress.
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Senate Republicans blocked a broad energy bill Thursday because it included billions of dollars in new taxes on the biggest oil companies.
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Hours before wrapping up for its campaign break, Congress nailed down a 2.2 percent pay raise for the armed forces but left resolution of the federal employee raise to a lame-duck session next month.
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The House passed a $690 billion increase in the debt ceiling in a 2005 budget resolution, but it was never adopted by the Senate, leading to delayed contributions to federal employees' pension systems.
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The Department of Health and Human Services should have withheld former Medicare chief Thomas A. Scully&#39;s salary last year because Scully wrongly kept a subordinate from giving Congress
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Republican leaders in the House and Senate were blocked Wednesday by a senior GOP senator in their efforts to add immigration, handgun and Internet gambling measures to a defense bill.
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A Senate committee voted Wednesday to scuttle new rules that critics say would deny overtime pay to millions of workers, as Democrats won the latest round in their election-year bout with President Bush over the issue.
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Senate Republicans today blocked a floor vote on a House-passed resolution that expresses disapproval of President Bush's plan to send thousands of additional U.S. troops to Iraq, as a procedural motion to cut off debate on the measure fell short of the 60 votes needed.
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Rep. Danny K. Davis (D-Ill.), chairman of the House federal workforce subcommittee, is increasingly skeptical of pay-for-performance systems in the federal government. He's also a little frustrated.
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Brazil's Supreme Court vetoes a controversial 91% pay rise for congressional politicians.