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                      CONSIDERING THE PAINFUL TOLL

  (Mr. LATIMER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LATIMER. Mr. Speaker, this weekend in Yonkers, I met four 
constituents who have recently been fired from Federal service. Their 
human stories force us to consider the painful toll created by the cut-
and-destroy method of management by this administration.
  Departments are being slashed and eliminated and so are the lives of 
professionals who have devoted their entire careers to public service. 
Without

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any objective assessment, years of work are being trashed with bogus 
claims of fraud and corruption. The ax falls regardless of skill, 
merit, or accomplishment. It falls without regard to the human element 
of people, not merely statistics, who serve the public. It is heartless 
and cruel.
  Most corporations, even when downsizing, take into account the most 
productive employees and offices. They are strategic to achieve 
savings.
  Every new administration is entitled to look at our Federal agencies 
and see what efficiencies can be achieved. This execute-first style of 
management is not that. It creates a stain on America, and it does 
nothing to make government more efficient. We should be ashamed.

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