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| Obama's Executive Order Giving Federal Raises- Overturned (Posted on 1/2/13 at 1:01 pm)
Obama unfroze the raise via E.O. they re- froze it..
House votes to freeze congressional, federal worker pay
Posted by Ed O'Keefe on January 1, 2013 at 6:55 pm
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The House of Representatives is poised to vote as early as tonight on a bill addressing a series of tax increases and spending cuts taking affect this week. But first lawmakers voted on a plan to freeze the salaries of lawmakers and federal employees.
Despite Democratic objections, the bill passed 287 to 129, with 55 Democrats voting with Republicans to approve the measure.
House Democrats charged that the vote to freeze salaries was intended to provide political cover for conservative Republicans planning to vote against the fiscal cliff bill passed early Tuesday by the Senate.
The fiscal cliff deal, passed with 89 votes in the Senate, includes language that would block a 0.5 percent cost of living pay increase for lawmakers, reversing parts of an executive order Obama issued last week – because Congress had yet to set the federal government’s pay scale for 2013.
Voting against the fiscal cliff plan might leave some House Republicans open to charges by future political opponents that they voted to give themselves a raise, or didn’t vote to block a congressional pay raise, Democrats charged.
The GOP-backed bill introduced late Monday would freeze the salaries of lawmakers and the nation’s 2 million federal employees for the remainder of fiscal 2013. Currently, federal worker salaries are frozen through the end of a short-term spending agreement that expires in March. As part of efforts to curtail the deficit, federal employees have not seen a cost of living increase in their paychecks in more than three years.
Holding the pay vote before the fiscal cliff bill is voted on, “is one of the most cynical things I’ve seen,” said Rep. Gerald E. Connolly (D-Va.), whose district is home to hundreds of thousands of federal employees. “It’s being held purely to provide protection for House Republicans who want to vote against the fiscal cliff deal.”
The pay bill is cosponsored by Reps. Mike Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) and Darrell Issa (R-Calif.)
Issa denied Democratic claims that his bill provides cover for GOP colleagues, noting that Obama could have opted to continue the pay freeze already in effect.
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| re: Obama's Executive Order Giving Federal Raises- Overturned (Posted on 1/2/13 at 1:03 pm to CajunAngele)
quote:
Obama unfroze the raise via E.O. they re- froze it..
Obama
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| re: Obama's Executive Order Giving Federal Raises- Overturned (Posted on 1/2/13 at 1:06 pm to constant cough)
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| re: Obama's Executive Order Giving Federal Raises- Overturned (Posted on 1/2/13 at 1:09 pm to CajunAngele)
Well, even a blind squirrel finds a nut every once in a while.
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| re: Obama's Executive Order Giving Federal Raises- Overturned (Posted on 1/2/13 at 1:10 pm to CajunAngele)
If ferderal payrates are frozen and the baseline budget increases are automatically increasing the budget by ~7% then where is this extra money being spent?
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| re: Obama's Executive Order Giving Federal Raises- Overturned (Posted on 1/2/13 at 1:11 pm to CajunAngele)
About damn time someone did something to stop these damn Executive Orders.
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| re: Obama's Executive Order Giving Federal Raises- Overturned (Posted on 1/2/13 at 1:21 pm to NASA_ISS_Tiger)
Obama usurped congress to give Egypt billions of dollars and go to war. (Some dems even called for Obama's impeachment over the war part.) Was this via E.O.? If so why didn't they stop him?
They found a way to stop him from doing so many radical holiday recess appointments. They should stop him ftom funding terrorists.
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