{"id":11730,"date":"2011-10-21T10:21:26","date_gmt":"2011-10-21T14:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=11730"},"modified":"2011-10-21T11:44:47","modified_gmt":"2011-10-21T15:44:47","slug":"senators-sessions-snowe-echo-cfif-on-overspending-and-federal-employee-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/11730\/senators-sessions-snowe-echo-cfif-on-overspending-and-federal-employee-pay\/","title":{"rendered":"Senators Sessions, Snowe Echo CFIF on Overspending and Federal Employee Pay"},"content":{"rendered":"

In our commentary this week entitled “While Federal Spending Hit New Record in 2011, Washington, D.C. Became America’s Wealthiest City”<\/a>, we highlight the interrelation between federal spending reaching a new record high in 2011 and the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area becoming the nation’s wealthiest. \u00a0 Among other facts, we pointed out that wages of federal employees themselves are over 1\/5 higher than comparable private-sector employees, and that federal benefits stand 20%-40% higher than those of private counterparts.<\/p>\n

Today, Senators Jeff Sessions and Olympia Snowe sustain our point in their commentary<\/a> within The Wall Street Journal<\/em> entitled “An End to Budgetary Trickery.”\u00a0 Advocating the Honest Budget Act they’ve introduced to end “the most blatant and dishonest” overspending gimmicks, they highlight “Fake Federal Pay Freezes”:<\/p>\n

In November 2010, the president promised to institute a ‘two-year pay freeze for all civilian federal workers.’\u00a0 He explained that ‘getting this deficit under control is going to require broad sacrifice.’\u00a0 But 70% of civilian federal workers have continued to receive 2%-3% automatic ‘step’ increases just for showing up – costing taxpayers an extra billion dollars every year.\u00a0 The Honest Budget Act, in keeping with the president’s pledge, would simply make the federal pay freeze real by legislative mandate.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Senators Sessions and Snowe also seek to end false “emergency” spending, phony “rescissions” and timing shifts in their legislation.\u00a0 As they summarize, “No more gimmicks, tricks or shell games.”\u00a0 We agree, and urge you to take a quick moment to contact your two Senators<\/a> in support of the Honest Budget Act. \u00a0 Let’s get this done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In our commentary this week entitled “While Federal Spending Hit New Record in 2011, Washington, D.C. Became America’s Wealthiest City”, we highlight the interrelation between federal spending reaching a new record high in 2011 and the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area becoming the nation’s wealthiest. \u00a0 Among other facts, we pointed out that wages of federal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[70,59,3145,1649,24,281,61],"class_list":["post-11730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-budget","tag-deficit","tag-honest-budget-act","tag-jeff-sessions","tag-obama","tag-olympia-snowe","tag-spending"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11730"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11732,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11730\/revisions\/11732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}