Government Executive: As the Senate began debate Monday on another minibus spending bill, one Republican lawmaker renewed his push to freeze federal employees' pay, albeit on a much smaller scale than President Trump has proposed.
Last week, Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., introduced an amendment to the fiscal 2019 appropriations bill for the Defense, Labor, Education, and Health and Human Services departments (H.R. 6157) that would freeze the pay of the more than 14,000 employees at the Labor Department next year, unless the department devises a plan to reduce “improper payments.”
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