Both the Senate and House versions of a spending outline for fiscal 2010, called the budget resolution, contain language backing parity between federal civilian and military raises for the January 2010 increase. That would follow the pattern of most prior years. President Obama has recommended 2.9 percent for the military and 2 percent for federal employees. The resolutions, which are up for floor voting in both chambers, do not specify an amount for either group, however. Some members of Congress are pushing to have the military raise set at 3.4 percent, which would continue a practice of most recent years of setting the military raise at a half-percentage point above an employment cost index measure. The first indicator of the military raise typically comes as Congress drafts the annual DoD authorization bill, which is likely in the weeks ahead. Actual raises are set in appropriations bills that come later.