[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 88 (Wednesday, June 3, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3688-S3689]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  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:

[[Page S3689]]

     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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