that civilians might have have to take 22 furlough days and it s cut in half to 11. spra explain what is the impact going to be? certainly a lot of the pentagon s crucial mission elements are done by civilian workers. for example, civilian workers are in charge of many sexual assault response and prevention efforts something the pentagon is focusing on. to say this has a huge impact on the pentagon is an understatement. you saw that earlier this week when the department announced the sexual assault response and prevention workers about 5,000 of those will be exempt from the 11 day furloughs. they are trying to have flexibility how these are undertaken going forward. let s go more into the flexibility. you look at the people that are being targeted here. not every civilian employee is going to get furloughed and workers at shipyards are exempt and so are intelligence workers and mostly cia working overseas as well. so how hard are they benchmarking who is essential and who is not?
sort of skim milk marriage. supporters of the law argue it allows the federal government to stay out of state experiments with marriage. the obama administration provides no legal defense for doma and lower courts ruled it unconstitutional. to try to force the administration s hand, house republicans filed suit. the high court says that might not be lawful. it s not unusual. it s totally unprecedented. reporter: across the country many people including politicians in washington are expressing their support for same-sex marriage. since sunday at least six u.s. senators have announced they ve changed their minds about it. john, diana. tahman, thank you. britain s prince william could be in for something of a job change. he s a pilot in the british military search and rescue helicopter fleet. a texas based helicopter company just bought a contract to take over the operations. many of the military personnel will be replaced by civilian workers. bristol helicopters says some briti
sort of skim milk marriage. supporters of the law argue it allows the federal government to stay out of state experiments with marriage. the obama administration provides no legal defense for doma and lower courts ruled it unconstitutional. to try to force the administration s hand, house republicans filed suit. the high court says that might not be lawful. it s not unusual. it s totally unprecedented. reporter: across the country many people including politicians in washington are expressing their support for same-sex marriage. since sunday at least six u.s. senators have announced they ve changed their minds about it. john, diana. tahman, thank you. britain s prince william could be in for something of a job change. he s a pilot in the british military search and rescue military fleet. a texas based helicopter company just bought a contract to take over the operations. many of the military personnel will be replaced by civilian workers. bristol helicopters says some british
how much of an impact does this delay have across the country? well, you know, i think the good thing here is that we ve given the department of defense flexibility to move around the cuts, and to move funds from one account to another account. so it s going to help a bit. i ve spoken out against sequester on the house floor. and i think that it is not the proper way to approach our fiscal situation. i think that what we need to do instead of just cutting across the board is to cut into the fat and not the muscle and bone and that concerns me a great deal. so i could imagine why it does because i want to talk specifically. scott air force base, that s in your district, and i m sure when you re voting against the sequester you re thinking about that because it now faces big cuts under the sequester. 4500 of the approximately 5,000 civilian workers are expecting furloughs there on that base. and if you look at what scott contributes to the local
perhaps people will be able to understand when it s right in their backyard but your state, 8.5 million for education. 120 teachers enaide jobs at risk. 3,000 civilian workers could be furloughed. that s exactly right. you know bottom line is here those numbers are as you point out the white house says right numbers but what do you tell the people, the teachers, the civilian workers who may as a result be laid off the job? not so much of who s to blame but what s next here? well, i can tell you that i stand ready as their representative in the 4th kon congressional district to end this. but again, as a member of the minority party, i don t get to bring a bill to the floor. and as quiet as it s kept, the president isn t a member of the house of representatives either. and he can t bring a bill to the house. only speaker boehner and majority leader cantor can bring