On the recordFebruary 17, 2012
I yield myself 1 additional minute. Ladies and gentlemen, you are going to be able to recruit those folks only if you have a competitive workforce. Let me give you a figure that you might find interesting. There are 33,300 employees at Goldman Sachs. Average salary, ladies and gentlemen: $367,057, the average salary of 33,300 people. You won't be able to compete. You won't be able to get NSA employees, as opposed to Siemens or Microsoft or some of those other corporations, many of which are in Ms. Eshoo's district. You won't be able to recruit them, and you won't retain them to have the best and the brightest defending America and making America the strongest and greatest country on Earth. Do you want America to be an exceptional country? Then you'd better have the best civil service on Earth, as well as the best private sector. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman has again expired.
