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Defined Benefit Plan

House Budget Committee renews efforts to cut retirement benefits

In its 2019 spending proposal, the House Budget Committee wants federal employees to contribute more toward a defined benefit retirement plan, while ending…

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House committee’s 2018 budget proposal sets stage for federal retirement cuts

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New bill could undo some federal union representation practices

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Tom Price, John Yarmuth

House chair pushing comprehensive budget reform for 2017

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Military leaders express misgivings about House plan to boost their budget

Pentagon officials are adamant that sequestration-level spending is
incompatible with the current Defense strategy. But, they also have serious concerns…

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House GOP budget calls for increase in feds’ retirement contributions

House Budget Committee Chairman Tom Price (R-Ga.) released his $3.8 trillion budget plan, which includes language calling for an increase to federal employees’…

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House budget seeks to up feds’ retirement contributions

The budget blueprint unveiled by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) Tuesday includes a handful of proposals affecting the federal workforce that Ryan and House Republicans have championed in the past. Among them, the recommendation that federal employees contribute more of their salary toward their pensions and a proposal to shrink the federal workforce by 10 percent through attrition.

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