Obama Pay Parity Letter

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PresidentBarackObama TheWhite House Avenue,NW 1600Pennsylvania DC 20500-0003 Washington, DearMr. President: I am writing to urgeyou to supporteffortsto addlanguagein the FiscalYear2010federalbudgetresolutionthat would for civilian federalworkersandmilitary personnel.I planto work with House ensurepaypanty in the pay adjustments on the budgetresolution. Committeeon the BudgetChairmanSprattto offer payparity languageduringdeliberations budgetproposal includedin your administration's Thereis a disparitybetweenthe civilian andthe military pay increases and recognize the important correct this disparity hope we can work together to presented It is my that to Congress. as personnel. provided by both our civilian andmilitary contributionsto our nation throughouthistory,andparticularlyduringthis time themselves Our military menandwomenhavecertainlydistinguished play in providinglogisticalsupportandothervital of war, but we cannotforgetthe criticalrole civilian employees servicesto our military, aswell astheir importantwork for thetaxpayerson essentialgovernmentfunctionsandservices. imperative:Our federalworkforceis aging. Almost 40Yoof We mustalsobe cognizantof the pendingdemographic federalworkerswill be eligiblefor retirementthis decade.As a result,we needto makesureincentivesexistto maintain our currentfederalworkforceandattractthe bestandthe brightestto federalservicein the comingyears. our governmenthasadheredto the principleof pay parity. I believethereis Nearlyeveryyearfor the pasttwo decades, to includepayparrty. bipartisan supportin the 11l'nCongress I stronglysupportthe conceptsembodiedin your budgetproposal.I applaudyou for presentingCongresswith a bold plan in our nation'sfuture. thatwill keepus on the pathto economicrecoveryandprovidebold investments you haveshownin the first weeksof your administration.I look forwardto working Thankyou for the strongleadership with you on payparlty andothermattersasyou striveto moveour nationforward.

GeraldE. Connolly Memberof Congtess 11ftDistrict,Virginia PRINTEDON RECYCLED PAPER