Action in Congress

摘要

A 3.5 percent pay raise for military members next January became a near-certainty in late May when the Senate Armed Services Committee voted for an increase of that size in its mark of its Fiscal 2008 defense authorization bill (S 567). The House earlier had included the same raise in its own version of the bill (HR 1585). A 3.5 percent raise is a half-percentage point higher than recent wage growth in the private sector.