[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 129 (Thursday, September 26, 2013)]
[House]
[Page H5845]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN

  (Mr. HORSFORD asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. HORSFORD. Mr. Speaker, I rise to discuss a portion of our 
community in Nevada's Fourth Congressional District that is being 
negatively affected under the sequestration and would be under a 
government shutdown.
  I am proud to speak on behalf of the Nellis Air Force Base in my 
district. Nellis Air Force Base employs over 3,000 civilian employees. 
They work as engineers, physicians, nurses, and administrators.
  I recently spoke with the Commander about the negative effects that 
sequestration has already had on Nellis Air Force Base. For the past 3 
years, the salaries of these civilian employees has been frozen. 
Positions are being eliminated, leaving remaining employees to pick up 
the slack.
  The civilian employees of Nellis Air Force Base are undergoing 
increasingly heavy responsibilities at work, without any increase in 
pay, and for Nellis Air Force Base, sequestration has already meant a 
decrease of over 40,000 flights, which affects their readiness at a 
time of combat.
  It is time for this Congress to reach a deal on the budget. A clean 
continuing resolution does not jeopardize personnel, a deal that I hope 
we will work together to accomplish on behalf of Nellis Air Force Base 
and all of our civilians.

  I urge Members of Congress to end the legacy of deadlock in Congress 
and begin the legacy of doing what we must to help the dedicated and 
hardworking men and women of the United States.

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