Test Upcoming for Pay Provisions

The first test of both likely will come in several months as Congress begins to write a “budget resolution” that will serve as the outline for actual spending decisions to be made later in the year. That resolution has served many times in the past as the vehicle for language advocating continued pay parity between civilian and military personnel. And if the performance pay fund is to be created for next year, for procedural reasons it might have to be authorized in the budget resolution. The resolution is written by the House and Senate Budget committees, with input from other committees with jurisdiction over the programs-the Government Reform Committee in the House and the Governmental Affairs Committee in the Senate.