From the Hill

Debt Limit Bill Passed by House

Legislation passed last week in the House would give the Treasury Department the authority to borrow money above the debt limit to make payments on the public debt and Social Security trust funds.

The Full Faith and Credit Act, H.R. 807, would apply if the government hits the debt ceiling and would only allow it to borrow money above the debt limit for those categories of payments, giving payments on the principal and interest on public debt and Social Security priority over other types of payments. Lawmakers also included an amendment that would prohibit Treasury from borrowing money above the debt limit to pay lawmakers’ salaries.

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Case Law Update

Employee not Required to Actually Perform Duties in New Position before Position becomes "Effective" for Jurisdictional Purposes

Yong Kim was chosen by the Department of the Army to be promoted from his GS-13, Step 9 position as an Electrical Engineer to a National Security Personnel System (NSPS) YF-2 position as a Supervisory Electrical Engineer. Kim accepted the position in early January. Several weeks later, Kim contacted the agency to see whether it could expedite the processing of his salary adjustment before his scheduled deployment to Afghanistan on February 1, 2009. On January 28, agency officials certified and approved the salary determinations for Kim’s promotion.