"...The “budget resolution” before the House committee meanwhile calls for federal employees to contribute more than an additional 5 percentage points toward their retirement benefits. It also seeks to reduce the federal workforce by 10 percent through 2015 by attrition.
Unlike similar past plans by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), it does not specifically recommend continuing the freeze on federal salary rates but terms federal employees over-compensated and it sets savings targets beyond the level that the retirement contributions increase alone would achieve..."
