You have got to explain to me what is going on in the Senate-- I just heard a debate about the Durbin Amendment--
Stevens offered to just make a unanimous consent to accept the amendment, but Durbin said NO, he wanted people on the record with their votes, because the last two times he has offered it, it was lost in the conference committee with the House---
NOW, they are voting and all of the Dems are voting NO and the most of the REps are voting YES---though not all---
WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON?
Hummm, I caught bits and pieces of them talking, sounded like it had something to do w/ military pay.
This looks like the amendment.
S.AMDT.356
Amends: H.R.1268
Sponsor: Sen Durbin, Richard [IL] (submitted 4/12/2005) (proposed 4/12/2005)
AMENDMENT PURPOSE:
To ensure that a Federal employee who takes leave without pay in order to perform service as a member of the uniformed services or member of the National Guard shall continue to receive pay in an amount which when taken together with the pay and allowances such individual is receiving for such service, will be no less than the basic pay such individual would then be receiving if no interruption in employment had occurred.
TEXT OF AMENDMENT AS SUBMITTED: CR S3500
STATUS:
4/12/2005:
Amendment SA 356 proposed by Senator Durbin. (consideration: CR S3470-3473)
COSPONSORS(3):
Sen Mikulski, Barbara A. [MD] - 4/12/2005
Sen Allen, George [VA] - 4/12/2005
Sen Corzine, Jon S. [NJ] - 4/12/2005
SA 356. Mr. DURBIN (for himself, Ms. MIKULSKI, Mr. ALLEN, and Mr. CORZINE) proposed an amendment to the bill H.R. 1268, making emergency supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2005, to establish and rapidly implement regulations for State driver's license and identification document security standards, to prevent terrorists from abusing the asylum laws of the United States, to unify terrorism-related grounds for inadmissibility and removal, to ensure expeditious construction of the San Diego border fence, and for other purposes; as follows:
On page 153, between lines 15 and 16, insert the following:
SEC. 1110. NONREDUCTION IN PAY WHILE FEDERAL EMPLOYEE IS PERFORMING ACTIVE SERVICE IN THE UNIFORMED SERVICES OR NATIONAL GUARD.
(a) SHORT TITLE.--This section may be cited as the ``Reservists Pay Security Act of 2005''.
(b) IN GENERAL.--Subchapter IV of chapter 55 of title 5, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:``§5538. Nonreduction in pay while serving in the uniformed services or National Guard
``(a) An employee who is absent from a position of employment with the Federal Government in order to perform active duty in the uniformed services pursuant to a call or order to active duty under a provision of law referred to in section 101(a)(13)(B) of title 10 shall be entitled, while serving on active duty, to receive, for each pay period described in subsection (b), an amount equal to the amount by which--
``(1) the amount of basic pay which would otherwise have been payable to such employee for such pay period if such employee's civilian