The Morning Call (Sunday)

VOTES IN THE HOUSE

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Back pay assurance for federal employees Voting 411 for and seven against, the House on Friday joined the Senate in passing a bill stipulatin­g that more than 800,000 federal workers furloughed or working without pay in the current government shutdown will receive back pay when department­s and agencies are fully reopened. In permanent language, the bill also guarantees back pay for civil servants after any future shutdowns of the federal government. A yes vote was to send the bill to President Trump. Yes: Fitzpatric­k, Dean, Houlahan, Wild, Cartwright, Meuser

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