[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 14963]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




        FORT BRAGG SUFFERING DUE TO PRESIDENT'S INACTION ON LAW

  (Mrs. ELLMERS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. ELLMERS. Mr. Speaker, I have the distinct honor and privilege to 
represent Fort Bragg in my district; and I found out yesterday evening 
that, despite passing funding to keep our military paid and to keep our 
military civilians paid, there have been over 7,000 Fort Bragg civilian 
employees furloughed. Now, I find this very interesting there again 
because the President signed this very bill into law Monday, and here 
we have a situation where I have needless--needless--suffering 
happening in my district.
  I have a letter from Chairman Buck McKeon, chairman of the House 
Armed Services Committee, to the Department of Defense on clarification 
of this, that I would like to read:

       The text does not limit the provision of pay to civilians 
     who were previously categorized by the administration as 
     ``excepted'' or ``essential'' for the purposes of Department 
     of Defense operations in the event of a government shutdown.

  We passed H.R. 3210, the Pay Our Military Act, sponsored by my 
colleague from Colorado (Mr. Coffman).

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