Senate approves again pay for delayed navy promotions
Doing the proper factor after doing the incorrect factor.
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Saturday 16 December 2023
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One from a couple of days in the past I did not have time to notice down in actual time:
POLICY (“Senate approves again pay for navy officers caught in Tuberville’s blockade“):
The Senate on Thursday authorized laws to again pay senior navy officers whose promotions had been delayed for months by Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s grip on nominations.
The Alabama senator had blocked affirmation of normal and flag officer promotions for 10 months in protest of the Pentagon’s coverage of reimbursing troops who journey to hunt abortions. He lastly relented final week, permitting greater than 400 navy nominees to be confirmed.
Within the aftermath of the blockade, senators in each events pushed to compensate officers who had misplaced out throughout the deadlock on elevated pay that may have include a better rank.
The invoice, which handed by unanimous consent earlier than the Senate adjourned for the week, was launched by Sens. Mike Rounds (RS.D.) and Joe Manchin (DW.Va.), each members of the Armed Providers Committee. Tuberville himself was among the many first co-sponsors of the bipartisan invoice.
Senate Majority Chief Chuck Schumer mentioned on the ground that the invoice’s passage alerts that troops and their households “don’t need to be punished in any manner” for Tuberville’s unprecedented blockade.
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The measure nonetheless must move the Home, however will possible have to attend for a vote there. Lawmakers from the decrease chamber left earlier Thursday for the remainder of the yr, however may take up the measure in January once they return to session.
I absolutely count on Parliament to observe go well with. Though I had not heard that this was being thought of till I noticed the above report, I assumed for a very long time that this is able to occur.
It’s unclear if which means that the efficient dates of promotion are additionally backdated, though I think it’s. Provided that many of those individuals labored within the increased ticket for decrease pay, it is the least Congress can do.
However that is one other instance of the bizarreness of our course of. Each time we undergo the weird spectacle of a authorities shutdown, we pay e.g. federal staff for his or her misplaced paychecks. (Go away vesting, retirement advantages, and another advantages take a smaller hit.) Once more, compensating individuals who had been injured by means of no fault of their very own is the proper factor to do. However it will be much better to not undergo charades like shutting down the federal government or delaying navy promotions to start with.