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On the recordApril 16, 2013
Is it fair to say that if you are in a position where you, at best, furlough people, at worst, you are laying people off, you cannot just, if the conditions change, retrieve those people, rebuild that workforce overnight?
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Mark Udall
Democratic · Colorado

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Udall emphasizes the difficulty of rebuilding a specialized workforce after layoffs.

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