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Congress is set to vote on the National Defense Authorization Act, following an agreement by House and Senate negotiators. The bill is a mixed bag where service members' pocketbooks are concerned. Retired Vice Adm. Norb Ryan is president and CEO of the Military Officers Association of America. He told Federal News Radio's Emily Kopp he is disappointed that troops will get a 1.3 percent pay raise in January.
Defense Secretary Ashton Carter says he and other members of the president’s national security team have advised President Barack Obama to veto the defense authorization bill Congressional negotiators have agreed on. The White House says the president indeed plans to veto it. Federal News Radio’s DoD reporter Jared Serbu has more.
Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said Wednesday that he has advised President Barack Obama to veto the Defense Authorization bill Congress will vote on later this week for several reasons.
The defense authorization bill agreed upon by House and Senate negotiators would affect military pocketbooks in ways both big and small. It includes a 1.3 percent pay increase for uniformed service members but chips away at the military's pension system. In exchange for shrinking pensions, it encourages current troops — and mandates that future ones — invest in the Thrift Savings Plan.
Agencies spend more on contracts in September than any other month of the year, as part of a governmentwide push to spend every last dollar before the fiscal year ends.
Congress passed a 10-week temporary funding bill on Wednesday to keep open the government. The House voted 277-151 on the measure. It now heads to the White House for the president's signature.
The Defense Authorization Act will expand milestone decision authority for military service chiefs, it just has to get past President Obama first.
After months of on-and-off talks, House and Senate negotiators reached an agreement yesterday on the Defense authorization bill for 2016. The legislation would make sweeping changes to the military’s personnel and acquisition systems. But as Federal News Radio’s Jared Serbu reports, it’s almost certain to be vetoed for entirely different reasons.
House and Senate negotiators finally shook hands Tuesday on a defense authorization bill both parties generally support and would enact some of the most sweeping and aggressive changes to the military’s personnel and acquisition systems in several decades.
A stopgap measure to avert a federal shutdown is set for a vote hours before a fiscal deadline would force the government to start the new year with closed doors.
Reps. Don Beyer (D-Va.) and Rob Wittman (R-VA) introduced the Federal Employee Retroactive Pay Fairness Act, which would secure retroactive pay for all federal employees during a government shutdown, regardless of furlough status.
Greg Stanford and Katie Maddocks of the Federal Managers Association and benefits expert Tammy Flanagan join host Mike Causey to discuss a pending pay raise for federal workers and retirees, the new self-plus one health care option and the possibility of a government shutdown. September 30, 2015
The Air Force told Congress in a new report that the Distributed Common Ground/Surface System Analysis and Reporting Team (DART) still is doing its assigned job, despite lawmaker concerns.
It turns out that not having a shutdown, which some said was an indicator of the end of democracy, is worse than having one. At least for some people.