A unanimous vote from the U.S. House of Representatives took place Saturday in regards to granting retroactive pay to furloughed federal workers.
The recent government shutdown has certainly taken its toll on federal employees and in response Representative Jim Moran (D-Va.) proposed the Federal Employee Retroactive Pay Fairness Act. If the Senate and the President agree to the passing of the bill, around 800,000 furloughed workers will be paid during the shutdown.
Moran commented, “I’m glad my friends across the aisle were able to put aside their ideological crusade to dismantle Obamacare and get behind this legislation…Their approach has already wrought too much hardship and today’s vote ensures it won’t hit the family budgets of our civil servants.”
