Senate Proceeding on Jul 23rd, 2009 :: 8:30:05 to 8:35:45
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8:29:59 to 8:30:20( Edit History Discussion )

Don Cazayoux: senator from mr. aka: mr. president, i want to thank my friend, senator coburn, for allowing me to speak at this time. i have been working with him in our committee, homeland security.

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Speech By: Don Cazayoux

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Don Cazayoux: we have taken up these amendments in committee. and i think i'm when i say that senator coburn, at that time, did support amendments. mr. coburn: would the senator yield? i think the record will show i did not sup

8:30:42 to 8:31:05( Edit History Discussion )

Don Cazayoux: mr. aka: thank you, thank you for the correction. first of all, i understand the current economic climate -- and we all do; i want the federal government to save as much money as it can and to reduce of the

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Don Cazayoux: inefficiencies that my amendment would do that. my amendment also has been supported by a of senators.

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Don Cazayoux: i'm proud that the cosponsors of these amendments are senators collins, senator lieberman, senator voinovich, senator murkowski, senator senator kohl, senator murkowski, senator cardin, senator inouye,

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Don Cazayoux: senator webb, and senator warner. and it's bipartisan effort to correct certain inequities in the federal retirement system. that has been our effort in these amendments. also, this effort was supported

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Don Cazayoux: by a huge number of groups that believe in this and support it. some of the organizations are the government treasury employees union, the international federation of professional and technical engineers, federal law enforcement officers

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Don Cazayoux: association, american federation of state, county, and municipal employees, american postal workers union, national association of letter carriers, national rural letter carriers carrierassociation, national active and

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Don Cazayoux: retired federal employees association, senior executives association, federal managers association, government managers coalition, national association post supervisors, national association of post masters of the u.s., and national

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Don Cazayoux: association of assistant u.s. attorneys. this is the kind of we have for this. this amendment will ensure that all federal employees are treated the same when it comes to retirement.

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Don Cazayoux: this will save money due to the reduced lost days of work and avoid unnecessary transfers which reduce the need for additional traing. and reduces the litigation costs borne by the different treatment of different

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Don Cazayoux: classes of employees. it will improve employee morale which increases efficiency and ensures we are able to transfer institutional language to the next generation o federal workers. and o.p.m. estimates that $68

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Don Cazayoux: million is wasted per year because of the different leave policies in amendments would certainly help in that respect. in fact, my amendment will reduce the federal deficit by

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Don Cazayoux: $36 million over 10ears. this amendment has bipartisan support of the committee jurisdiction and by both managers and employees. i've read others who support it. this is a good government bill

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Don Cazayoux: that dollars. i this effort and i want to at this time say this is a goo amendment and i will fight for

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Don Cazayoux: it but i do not want to hold up the defe