The issue in front of the House is whether we are going to use 426 people who do not sellI underline "do not sell"but. rather. travel around the country promoting savings bonds. I think it would be nice for them to promote them. if we had nothing else for Federal employees to do. but when we know what we know about the interest rate. it is very hard to promote effectively that type of security at this time and in this day and age when we are cutting frills. this is one we should cut. I chair the Civil Service Subcommittee. and I know how very precious slots are in the Federal Government and how many jobs need to be done such as Immigration and Customs that are going undone because we do not have enough people to put in those slots. Therefore. although I would like to be able to have people do all sorts of things. nevertheless because of the limits. we are saying this is something we should do away with. We have seen the number of sales fall off significantly. almost 40 percent.
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