It is extraordinarily frustrating for me that we have spent all week avoiding opportunities to make progress on areas on which we agree to avoid or minimize the effects of the sequester meat axe and instead singled out, again, our federal employees. Suffice it to say, making them a repeated target is unfair, unproductive, and avoids the hard decisions we should be tackling.
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