On the recordFebruary 17, 2012
I yield myself 1 additional minute. But nobody but Federal employees, nobody is targeted in this bill other than Federal employees. You can tell I'm angry about that because that's not fair, and that's not how you ought to treat our employees, America's employees. America's public servants, we call them. We ought to stop dissing them. We ought to stop demagoguing them. We ought to stop using ``bureaucrat'' as an epithet. America needs them. I will have some other things to say in a few minutes, Madam Speaker. But we ought not walk away from our Federal employees any more than we ought to walk away from those 160 million people who need this tax cut or walk away from those 2.4 million who need that unemployment insurance or walk away, as we have, from the doctors who need certainty, long term--not for 10 months, but long term. I reserve the balance of my time. {time} 1020
