Defense

Homeland Security agency grapples with staffing shortage

Homeland Security officials took fire on Capitol Hill Thursday over slow-moving efforts to staff the department's infrastructure protection unit.

Pay & Benefits

Pairing Up for Parity

Democrats and Republicans joined forces Wednesday to beat back a movement to end the tradition of military-civilian pay parity.

Pay & Benefits

House approves pay parity resolution

House lawmakers overwhelmingly endorsed equal pay raises in 2005 for military and civilian federal workers Wednesday.