The Fifth Congressional District is home to thousands of federal employees and retirees, both military and civilian. Congressman Hoyer is proud to represent them and has led the fight on issues important to public servants, including securing fair pay and benefits, with a strong focus on ensuring pay parity between military and civilian personnel.
Congressman Hoyer has consistently opposed efforts to reduce the wages, benefits, and hours of federal employees in a misguided attempt by some to bring down our nation’s deficit on the backs of middle-class families. Federal employees have already contributed more than $182 billion toward deficit reduction through freezes to cost-of-living-adjustments and changes to retirement benefits.
Throughout his career, Congressman Hoyer has also advocated for quality health care coverage, a solid retirement system, and fair working conditions for federal employees in Maryland and throughout the country.
Throughout my years in Congress, I have worked with few people as capable, personable, or hardworking as Beth Moten.
This bill includes some important investments in Maryland's future, ranging from education to modernizing our transportation infrastructure needs.
We are heartened by the explicit commitment made today by the FBI, GSA and OMB to a full consolidation of the FBI headquarters.
We're here to send a strong message by Democrats in the House and Senate and by Americans across the country that sequester must be replaced.
The House and Senate have now passed a clean, short-term funding bill to avert a shutdown through December 11.
I'm proud to represent tens of thousands of hardworking and dedicated federal employees in Maryland's Fifth District who should not be penalized in the event of a government shutdown.
[Mr.] Speaker… we have only seven legislative days left until another unnecessary, costly, and entirely preventable government shutdown.
The Obama Administration's announcement that federal civilian employees will receive an across-the-board pay raise of 1.0 percent in 2016, and a 0.3 percent adjustment for cost of living in the regions where they work, is a step in the right direction of fairly compensating the federal civilian workforce for the wide range of services it performs for all Americans.
I join in congratulating Tony Reardon on being chosen as the next leader of the National Treasury Employees Union, succeeding Colleen M. Kelley.