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Valentine's
- By Alyssa Rosenberg
- May 7, 2009
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President Obama used his speech on the budget today to sound his own note of public service recognition, saying:
I want to be clear: there are many, many people doing valuable work for our government across the country and around the world. It's important that we support these folks - folks who don't draw a big paycheck or earn a lot of praise but who do tough, thankless jobs on our behalf. This is not a criticism of them.
That said, he appears to be sticking to his proposal for a 2 percent civilian pay raise...
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