Among the unfinished spending bills is the Transportation-Treasury measure, the traditional vehicle for the annual federal pay raise. The House last summer passed its version containing a 2.7 percent increase, and the Senate Appropriations Committee also endorsed that figure. However, that happened before Congress set the 2007 raise for military personnel at 2.2 percent. General schedule employees are getting a 2.2 percent average raise effective January 7 under terms of an executive order issued because no figure was enacted into law before the end of calendar 2006. However, chances of boosting the raise are questionable, due to the precedent set by the 2.2 percent raise paid to the military, the procedure Congress plans for dealing with the unfinished budget business, and the desire of leaders to keep the next measure as free as possible from additional provisions.