Michele Bachmann: “I want to thank Representative Hartzler for her wonderful leadership this afternoon. We've heard wonderful comments…”

“I want to thank Representative Hartzler for her wonderful leadership this afternoon. We've heard wonderful comments about why we're here and why this is so important. People all across the United States want us in to get our act together in Congress and with the White House and put this country back in the position we've always been in--the greatest economic and military superpower that the world has ever known. But we can't be that superpower, as Representative Lankford of Oklahoma said, if our Commander in Chief is illegally furloughing employees who are civilians actively supporting our defense initiative when we need them at this critical time in world history. And I want to bring attention to one particular area and underscore what Representative Lankford said, because this is so extremely important. It was highlighted today by one of our Members, Representative Lee Terry of Nebraska. What he told the Republicans today at the microphone was chilling. A story is written about it today in Breitbart.com by Ben Shapiro. In the article it says President Obama is illegally furloughing civilian defense employees at STRATCOM. What is STRATCOM? STRATCOM, Madam Speaker, is where thousands of people work to deal with missile defense in the United States. That would include nuclear missile defense. Madam Speaker, we are being told that upwards of 60 to 70 percent of the civilian employees, which are thousands of individuals, have been illegally furloughed.…”