Pay & Benefits

Senate leader raps plan to tap retirement funds to ease debt crisis

Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., Tuesday criticized a possible Bush administration move to tap federal employee retirement funds to avoid immediately raising the government's debt ceiling.

Pay & Benefits

House panel pushes military-civilian pay parity

The House Budget Committee agreed Wednesday night to a resolution backing pay parity for military service members and civilian federal employees next year.

Defense

War in the '90s

A book about American defense and foreign policy written before Sept. 11 seems hardly worth the effort. But it is.

Pay & Benefits

Bush may tap retirement funds to avoid hitting debt ceiling

The Bush administration may borrow billions of dollars from federal employee retirement funds to temporarily eliminate the need for Congress to raise the debt ceiling.