S.Amdt. 1488

SA 1488. Mr. SULLIVAN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
to amendment SA 1463 proposed by Mr. McCain to the bill H.R. 1735, to
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2016 for military activities
of the Department of Defense and for military construction, to
prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of subtitle A of title VI, add the following:

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SEC. 608. SENSE OF SENATE ON MILITARY AND CIVILIAN PAY
RAISES.

(a) Finding.--The Senate finds that section 1009 of title
37, United States Code, specifies that the annual increase in
pay for members of the uniformed services shall equal the
employment cost index while section 5303 of title 5, United
States Code, provides that the amount of the annual increase
in pay for civilian employees of the Federal Government
should be equal to one half of one percent less than the
employment cost index.
(b) Sense of Senate.--It is the sense of the Senate that--
(1) the members of our uniformed services have earned a
higher annual increase in pay to reward them for the unique
challenges and hardships of their service to our country; and
(2) the annual increase in pay for members of the uniformed
services should exceed that of the annual increase in pay for
civilian employees of the Federal Government.
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