17. Department of Justice · Minor · Needs Congress
Seek congressional pay reform for Assistant U.S. Attorneys in the field
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“To ensure that the department can attract and retain top legal talent away from Washington, D.C., the next conservative Administration should seek congressional reform of the pay scale used for Assistant United States Attorneys in the field.”
What has happened
- Not started
No pay reform for Assistant United States Attorneys in the field has been sought. The congress.gov bills Corpus for the 119th Congress contains no bill on the Assistant United States Attorney pay scale; the two bills touching United States Attorneys concern appointment and oversight authority instead. No administration legislative proposal, budget request or testimony on the subject appears on the record, and the department's press output in the window carries nothing on attorney pay. **Checked 2026-09-05** against the FY 2027 U.S. Attorneys congressional justification, now that `justice.gov`'s budget path has been found: the volume contains no pay reform, pay parity, pay comparability, special salary rate or retention-pay request of any kind.
No action found yet. This entry is the starting point, not a finding.
Research log
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Research notes
Requires-Congress ask with nothing at the first rung: no bill introduced and no formal administration request.
- Action
- other
- Object
- Assistant United States Attorneys' pay scale
- ID
- 1587