Political Quotes

“This bill that we are discussing this evening, H.R. 3345, has been around for 6 months. How many times has this Chamber taken and reduced the cost of 252,000 employees, over and over again, and yet never given the agencies the mechanism that they need in order to do it in a compassionate, productive, efficient way? Finally we have another chance to do it. We have another chance to approve these buyouts. Please know that one of the agencies, the Office of Personnel Management, has already sent out RIF notices, reduction in force notices effective on May 1. Other agencies are going to have to follow suit. Time is running out. We need to, if we care about competitiveness globally, if we care about the moral of our Federal work force on whom we depend to take care of our constituents, then we should at least show some care, we should show that we have a plan to save money, to promote productivity by passing this bill. According to the Congressional Budget Office figure, we will actually save $34 billion with this bill by 1999.”