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House to vote on pension bill

The House is expected to vote Feb. 16 on a bill that proposes to boost federal employees’ contributions to their retirement and institute a high-5 annuity calculation for new employees, reports Federal News Radio.

Lawmakers will take up H.R. 3813 not as part of the larger American Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Act (H.R. 7) into which it had recently been inserted, but as a stand-alone measure, according to the report.


 

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Tue, Feb 21, 2012 Tom

We my brother and sister Federal Employee are 2 million strong! If you are not Registered to Vote please do so and go to the polls and VOTE OUT those in Congress that do not support the AMERICAN FEDERAL EMPLOYEE! Go to the congressional website and contact your representatives on H.R. 3813. The President saved us from NSPS give him the Democratic backing to be fair and just across the board on cuts we FED's have already given!

Fri, Feb 17, 2012

The lawmakers treat the Constitution as a antiquated historical relic. There is no Constitution, it has been relegated to the annals of history.

Fri, Feb 17, 2012

I don't think the "powers that be" really care or even know about the United States Constitution. If they did, this crap wouldn't be happening, or would it?

Fri, Feb 17, 2012 Steve

I'm wondering just how close this comes to violating Article 1, Section 9, of the United States Constitution. Singling out a specific group of people defined only by their place of employment to be taxed to finance a transportation bill seems to come awfully close to being a bill of attainder.

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