For Congressional Democrats, dispatching the program is an easy opportunity to demonstrate friend-of-labor bonafides to their union piggy-banks. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, unions were among the top contributors to last year's re-election campaign of House Armed Services Chairman Ike Skelton. He led the charge against the Pentagon's performance-pay system in a February letter to Defense Secretary Robert Gates, and he is among those now urging that merit pay be frozen. Also among the signers is Edolphus Towns, currently effusing on a regular basis about pay for nonperformance on Wall Street.
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