With its Labor Day recess ended, lawmakers returning to Washington face the fiscal 2007 defense authorization bill, with a conference committee needed to iron out differences such as the following. The House would raise military pay 1.7 percent; the Senate 2.2 percent. The House would increase Tricare retail pharmacy copays from $3 (generic) and $9 (brand name) to $6 and $16 respectively; the Senate would make no changes. The Senate would accelerate paid-up SBP at 30 years to Oct. 1, 2006, and eliminate the offset of VA service-connected death benefits from SBP; the House has neither provision. The Senate would authorize full concurrent receipt to military retires rated by the VA as unemployable; the House has no provision. The Senate would reduce the retirement age of Guard and Reserve members by three months for every 90 days mobilized since Sept. 11, 2001; the House has no provision.