For 2 years. That's about $30 billion a year in cuts. So they've already given up, really, about $60 billion from a normal increase in wages just to pay for the cost of things going up. Everybody knows that the cost of food and gasoline and those kinds of things are going up, and still we aren't asking millionaires--or they aren't. The Republicans who propose these cuts, these additional contributions from Federal employees, are not asking millionaires and billionaires to contribute their fair share.
Janice Schakowsky: “For 2 years. That's about $30 billion a year in cuts. So they've already given up, really, about $60 billion from a…”
On the recordFebruary 16, 2012
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