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Thursday, January 19, 2017

Cut a bureaucrat's pay to $1? Top Dem fears GOP to target federal workers

By (@Duranni1) 1/18/17

The top Democrat on the House Rules Committee is hopping mad that Republicans revived a 19th-century rule allowing lawmakers to essentially fire individual civil servants and eliminate entire federal programs when they approved the rules package governing the 115th Congress on a party-line vote earlier this month.  New York Rep. Louise Slaughter said inclusion of the Holman Rule, first approved in 1876, in the package is a way for Republicans to punish federal workers for implementing laws with which they don't agree.......To Read More.....

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