Account was 36 million below the president s budget request in the bill brought to the floor and amendments already passed by the house have resulted in further cuts to the departmental administration. Federal salaries for the Nuclear Security administration are 30 million below this president s request. The funding levels in this bill send a clear message about growth in the federal work force requiring an automatic 5 cut across the board is a step too far and as i said it is not good government. For these reasons, i oppose these amendments, urge my colleagues to vote against it. I would note that when the gentleman says during the Government Shutdown they furloughed 60 of the work force, that was 16 days. These employees were labeled as nonessential. Same thing happened in congress. I would suspect in your congress, at least i know in my office, we had to declare which employees were nonessential. Those employees now work for me again and are rehired. I suspect they are in your offic