On the recordApril 11, 2013
It is fundamentally unfair to send hard-working Federal workers home on furlough; expect these same hard-working employees to work overtime without being adequately compensated for doing so.
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congress.govBennie Thompson: “It is fundamentally unfair to send hard-working Federal workers home on furlough; expect these same hard-working…”
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Thompson criticizes the unfair treatment of federal workers under sequestration.
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There you have it. House Republicans have an hour to debate a nonbinding symbolic resolution but not even a few seconds to do the job that would actually pay our DHS workers. This is the Republican DHS shutdown.
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