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Pentagon gives retroactive pay raise to career executives
Legislation bars Defense Department from basing pay on career or noncareer employment status.
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Industry group complains about contracting method
Industry group says cascading set-asides aren’t fair to bigger contractors.
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Rollout of DHS personnel system delayed for two weeks
Judge will use extra time to decide legality of regulations.
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White House requests additional $2 billion for VA health care
OMB says increase would not affect plans to hold overall discretionary spending increases to 2.3 percent -- less than the expected rate of inflation -- and non-security spending below last year's levels.
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Judge asks DHS to delay new personnel regulations for two weeks
Attorneys for labor unions, agency argue over motion to put off implementation of system pending legal challenge.
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Senate nears vote on bolstering rail and transit security
Amendment would cut $100 million from the first-responder grant program to pay for the increase in transit grants.
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Legislators push bills to reorganize agencies, 'sunset' programs
Measures have backing of Bush administration.
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'Hairspray' creator encourages participation in public service
Off-beat director pushes young people to join the civil service.
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Senators seek office to probe unsolved civil rights-era murders
Unsolved Crimes Section would "expeditiously" investigate civil rights-related crimes that occurred before 1970.
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