The upcoming post-election lame duck session of Congress could handle the January 2007 federal pay raise in any of a number of ways, officials say, including a potential decision not to decide the raise at all—at least for the present. Congress set a strong precedent for the raise by agreeing before recessing to give uniformed military personnel a 2.2 percent raise to uniformed military personnel. It also failed to take final action on the Transportation-Treasury spending bill, both versions of which set the federal raise at a 2.7 percent average amount. The military raise has been widely criticized as too small, but chances appear only remote that Congress will find a way to boost that raise—for example, through a supplemental funding bill.