Jamie Raskin actually said...

I can't visualize who we are talking about as being overpaid within the government workforce.

high-ranking public employees... are underpaid compared to what they could be making in the private sector.

the Federal Government was the place that was open to hiring women and members of racial minority groups when the private sector refused.

So on that theory we would not want to allow extreme inequality in the private sector to become the justification for driving wages down fur...