In following up to Wednesday's post on the 2010 federal pay raise, Alyssa Rosenberg reports that Assistant Senate Majority Leader Richard Durbin, D-Ill., has unveiled legislation that would provide federal employees with an increase of 2.9 percent in 2010, nearly 1 percent more than the House version allocates for the pay raise.
Brittany Ballenstedt
Brittany Ballenstedt writes Nextgov's Wired Workplace blog, which delves into the issues facing employees who work in the federal information technology sector. Before joining Nextgov, Brittany covered federal pay and benefits issues as a staff correspondent for Government Executive and served as an associate editor for National Journal's Technology Daily. She holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from Mansfield University and originally hails from Pennsylvania. She currently lives near Travis Air Force Base, Calif., where her husband is stationed.

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