Senate votes to scale back federal job preferences for veterans
By Lisa Rein June 17
Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain (R-Ariz.) has endorsed changes that would weaken the veterans preference law in federal hiring. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Congress stepped this week into a sensitive issue that’s been quietly roiling the already-challenging hiring system for federal jobs: the Obama administration’s high-profile push to give preference to veterans.
The Senate version of the vast military policy bill that now heads to conference with the House would knock out one of the advantages veterans enjoy when they apply for federal work. They would continue to get a leg up over non-veterans to get a foot in the door. But once they’re in government and want to be considered for another federal post, they would no longer go to the head of the hiring queue.
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