A law passed during the Obama administration was meant to control overtime pay to members of the U.S. Border Patrol after confirmed reports of misuse.
Now, two GOP lawmakers from Arizona want to give some experienced agents special overtime pay.
The old system reportedly let border patrol agents leverage so-called administratively uncontrollable overtime to significantly boost their paychecks.
Now work schedules are capped at 50 hours a week. Overtime is paid by supplements that are less than the federal rate of time-and-one-half.
Arizona Congressmen Andy Biggs and Eli Crane want to raise overtime pay for certain border patrol agents.
They signed a letter to the chair of the House Armed Services Committee urging him to copy Senate language that does so, and paste it into the final defense spending bill due before Oct. 1.
