Key senators back extending federal pay freeze

Senators with oversight of the federal workforce said Friday that Congress should freeze the pay of federal employees for a third year and retool calculations of federal retirement benefits in order to cut the federal deficit.

Sens. Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine), the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, also said no workers in any of the three branches of the federal government should be spared from cuts under consideration by the supercommittee on deficit reduction.

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N.C. Aizenman 15 Oct, 2011

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