Senate votes to scale back federal job preferences for veterans

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Congress stepped this week into a sensitive issue thatā€™s been quietly roiling the already-challenging hiring system for federal jobs: the Obama administrationā€™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 wouldĀ 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 hire vetsto get a foot in the door.

But once theyā€™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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