mr. crenshaw: i yield five minutes to the gentleman from utah, mr. chaffetz. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. mr. chaffetz: thank you, i want to thank the gentleman from wisconsin for bringing forward this bill. i want to refer to some facts. we do have good, hardworking federal employees, they're just as patriotic, if not more, as everybody else in our country they work hard and deserve a just compensation but the compensation trajectory we're going forward in this country, madam speaker, is not sustainable, nor is it fair. i was hoping that when the majority leader was addressing us, he would yield to the question. one of the stat he is threw out is that none of these people are earning as much as members of congress. i would point out that, for instance, in the department of transportation, from the end of 2009, there was one person in the department of transportation earning a salary of $170,000. yet 18 months later, there were 1,690 employees in the department of transportation earning at least $170,000 in compensatio

mr. crenshaw: i yield five minutes to the gentleman from utah, mr. chaffetz. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. mr. chaffetz: thank you, i want to thank the gentleman from wisconsin for bringing forward this bill. i want to refer to some facts. we do have good, hardworking federal employees, they're just as patriotic, if not more, as everybody else in our country they work hard and deserve a just compensation but the compensation trajectory we're going forward in this country, madam speaker, is not sustainable, nor is it fair. i was hoping that when the majority leader was addressing us, he would yield to the question. one of the stat he is threw out is that none of these people are earning as much as members of congress. i would point out that, for

mr. crenshaw: i'm new here. i'm a freshman, i'm one of those freshmen who have been told you don't know how washington works. successive four years of trillion-dollar deficits is the way washington works, i don't want it working that way. i wasn't sent here to learn how washington works, i was sent here to change the way washington works. when we have a president -- mr. ross: when we have a president cutting our military budget while private sector payrolls go down, there's something wrong with the way washington works. washington is broken. i submit we need to lead by example. we have done so by reducing our accounts by 11%, by reducing our committee budgets. we need to go further. if we're going to lead by example. leadership is not a title, leadership is an act. i submit to you that today we lead by example and i urge my colleagues to support the passage of h.r. 3835 and i yield back my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from florida yields back. all time having expired, the question is, will the ho