Word: federales
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The bill would increase salaries in the House, for federal judges, and for top executive branch officials by at least 35 percent and often by closer to 40 percent.
Bush, who has been seeking for months to increase salaries for his top aides and for federal judges, cleared the way for House action this week. By giving his blessing to the package, he made it more difficult for Democrats or Republicans to use pay as a partisan issue.
Packwood isn't alone. Earlier this week, four Republican Congresswomen, all supporters of abortion-rights, met with President Bush to discuss the issue. They emerged from the meeting with a surprise. The President, they said, no longer rules out federal financing for abortions for poor women in the case of...
Nationally, the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta plans to recommend next month that every U.S. school, college and university offer a second dose of measles vaccine to anyone born after January 1, 1957, said Robert H. Snyder, a public health advisor for the federal agency.
That honor goes to the regressive, unfair system of payroll taxes that pays for those benefits. All wage-earners in America are required to kick in 7.51 percent of their earnings (the FICA tax) to the Social Security system. Even those workers who are so poor that they are exempt...