Shea-Porter on the Department of Defense's Furlough Announcement

Statement

Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter issued the following statement after the Department of Defense announced that employees in Navy shipyards will be excepted from furloughs because it would be particularly difficult to make up delays in maintenance work on nuclear vessels and these vessels are critical to mission success:

"The work done by the men and women at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard is vital to our national defense and local economy. I am very relieved that shipyard workers will not face furloughs due to the reckless sequester, but this announcement does not change the fact that Speaker Boehner and the House Majority need to allow a vote on legislation that would end sequestration once and for all and replace it with a balanced approach to deficit reduction that helps create jobs."

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