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March 10: House passes bill to pay Transportation employees for furlough days from The Washington Post
- If you are among the nearly 2,000 Transportation Department employees who were furloughed last week because Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Ky.) temporarily blocked funding for federal highway and transportation projects, help is on the way. The House passed legislation that would compensate those 1,922 workers, Rep. Gerald E. Connolly (D-Va.) announced Wednesday. In a speech to the House, Connolly, sponsor of the legislation, said the bill would pay employees "who were forced out of their job for two days because of political gamesmanship on the other side of the Capitol."
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