Congress has recessed until mid-November without formally setting the January 2007 federal pay raise, although its last actions before the break strongly signaled that the raise likely will be 2.2 percent rather than the 2.7 percent figure that employee organizations and some in Congress have been seeking. Just before recessing, Congress approved both a DoD appropriations bill (HR-5631) and an authorization bill (HR-5122) that set the 2007 uniformed military raise at 2.2 percent. The Senate did not take up the Transportation-Treasury appropriations bill (HR-5576) that would provide 2.7 percent for federal employees; the House-passed version of that bill also favors the higher number. Officials consider it highly unlikely that the federal civilian raise would be set higher than the military raise, however. Final action on the federal employee raise likely will come during a lame duck session in mid-November.