Not Your Sweetie

Bush Restoring Cash Bonuses for Appointees
By ERIC LICHTBLAU


ASHINGTON, Dec. 3 — The White House has decided that several thousand political
appointees across the federal government will be eligible for cash bonuses,
abandoning a Clinton-era prohibition that grew out of questionable practices in the first
Bush administration.
The Bush administration
did not help matters last week with the announcement that it was setting pay increases
for career federal employees below what Congress was seeking.