Published: 6/19/2008
So yes, this is a very family-oriented, family friendly measure. Don’t let anybody kid you. Because we don’t want people who apply to the federal government to have to say, “Well, I’m not going to join because I’m going to be losing money to stay home for a short period of time to take care of a newborn child. I can go to work at one of those other companies.” This is a time when we need more folks working in the federal government on critical issues like homeland security, like defense, like medical research. We need to replace those individuals who are leaving so that we can make sure we have a vibrant federal government that can address the needs that we’ve asked of our federal employees.

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