The House voted Friday to freeze the pay of federal workers for the
third year in a row over the objections of congressional Democrats and
the Obama administration.
Members voted 261-154 in favor of the bill, which would also lock in a
pay freeze for members of Congress. It exempts people serving in the
military.
The bill won significant support from Democrats — 43 voted for it — while 10 Republicans voted against it.
The legislation is an attempt to override President Obama’s executive
order in December that seeks to give federal workers a 0.5 percent pay
hike in late March. That order incensed congressional Republicans, who
criticized it as an attempt to seize control of an issue that has
traditionally been under Congress’s purview.
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