This is the first time that the House Oversight Committee has convened since the end of the longest government shutdown in history. And during that shutdown, millions of people across our country felt the consequences of Republican dysfunction. And Federal workers were amongst the hardest hit. But unlike federal employees, the thousands of federal contract workers who keep this government running, including janitorial, food and security service workers, had no assurances that they would ever see a single dollar of the wages that they lost when the government reopened. (00:14–00:17)
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