Jerry Moran: “yesterday about two dozen Republican Members of the House Government Operations Committee told the former members of the…”

“yesterday about two dozen Republican Members of the House Government Operations Committee told the former members of the travel office how mortified they were, how terrible they felt that they had lost their jobs. Of course, all of them but Mr. Dale have gotten other jobs. Mr. Dale has some serious management problems and some indictable offenses that he is dealing with. But none of these Members raised a pique when 11 people who worked for the Clerk's office were fired before Christmas. One guy had four little children. They do not care what happened to him. Mr. Speaker, they were given no justification; just fired so that the House management would not have to pay for the comp time those people had earned by working late hours. That is why. Because we voted to apply private sector laws to the Congress. Because we did, they did not want it to apply to them and so they fired them before Christmas. But, Mr. Speaker, not one peep in their defense. Not one peep. What hypocrisy.”