[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 24 (Wednesday, February 5, 2025)]
[House]
[Page H483]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    FIGHTING FOR OUR FEDERAL WORKERS

  (Ms. McCLELLAN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. McCLELLAN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to speak out on behalf of 
our beleaguered Federal workforce which is currently under attack by 
the Musk-Trump-Vance administration.
  Trump's OMB nominee, Russell Vought, said: ``We want the bureaucrats 
to be traumatically affected. When they wake up in the morning, we want 
them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as 
the villains. . . . We want to put them in trauma.'' Well, Mr. Speaker, 
they are in trauma.
  Literally, on my way to the floor to vote tonight, I received a text 
from a Federal employee who said simply: ``Help us!'' Who exactly is 
the Musk-Trump-Vance administration terrorizing: the people who make 
sure your food is safe to eat, your water is clean to drink, and the 
air is clean to breathe; the people who work tirelessly to keep 
pregnant women, asthmatic children, and people with cancer from dying; 
the people who make sure you fly safely; and the people protecting 
American lives here and around the globe through 
diplomacy, intelligence gathering, and fighting crime.

  Mr. Speaker, I see the Federal workforce. I am doing everything I can 
to help them. I won't quit. They shouldn't quit either.
  THE SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Moore of West Virginia). Members are 
reminded to refrain from engaging in personalities toward the 
President.

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