AFSA 984 Legislative Affairs Bulletin 1-21 Sep

https://www.facebook.com/Afsachapter984 Page 1 of 2 Legislative Affairs Bulletin: 1-21 September 2014 AFSA Chapter 984 Newsletter The James McCoy Chapter PO Box 13472, Offutt AFB, NE 68113 Action Alert from AFSA HQ Calling for a Full Military Pay Raise for... More

https://www.facebook.com/Afsachapter984 Page 1 of 2 Legislative Affairs Bulletin: 1-21 September 2014 AFSA Chapter 984 Newsletter The James McCoy Chapter PO Box 13472, Offutt AFB, NE 68113 Action Alert from AFSA HQ Calling for a Full Military Pay Raise for 2015. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., has indicated the FY 2015 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) will be a major legislative focus when Congress returns to Washington next week. Some think this call for action by Sen. Reid may just be electioneering considering that the House finished its version of the bill months ago, and the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) did the same. The holdup has been that the SASC bill has not been brought to the Senate floor—a move totally in the control of the majority leader. Whatever the case, the House has called for a full 1.8 percent military pay raise starting in January, as called for by current law. The law bases military pay raises on the Employment Cost Index (ECI), a m Less