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workers are covered by automatic cost-of-living pay increase provisions. To include Congress in this group separates Congress from 85 percent of the American working people,” he said.
BYRD also criticized the tactics used to bring the pay increase bill before the Senate. “This legislation was attached at the last minute to an unrelated bill concerning safety regulations for postal workers.”
“The pay increase proposal was not given full and careful consideration. It was rammed through the Congress in two days,” Byrd declared.
The legislation approved also provides automatic cost-of-living pay hikes for all federal officials except the President earning $36, 000 or more. The cost this year will be between $34 million and $50 million.□
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