mrs. lummis: thank you, mr. akin. would you be so kind as to pull the chart up that you have behind you? the one that displays what has happened to private sector employment versus public sector employment. as you can see from the chart, private sector employment is an upside down u. in that in the ars since the majorityarty has switched handses and democratic control of congress has been in place, we have seen private sector employment decline dramatically at the same time. we have seen public sector employment increase to the tune of about 188,000 public sector workers increase, at the same time we've lost about 12 million private sector employees. now, i have a bill that i believe will begin to address the serious problem that we see with regard to employment. it is a work force reduction act. but it does it without firing anyone. it does it through attrition. the bill provides that for every employee who vacates a position due to retirement or moving on, that that position would be moved into position pool. in fac

mrs. lummis: i'm on the budget committee but it doesn't meet. maybe the reason the budget committee doesn't me is because they don't want you to see this chart. if we look at this chart and we look at the blue lines, the blue lines are private sector employment. it is the private economy employment. the job creators, the revenue creators. look at the bush years, those are the years goingp. bush, bush, bush, bush. look at the pelosi years, those are the years going down. pelosi, pelosi, pelosi. the private sector jobs dropped under nancy pelosi. they went up under george bush. look at the readline. the red line is george bush. the red line for government employment is flat, look at the pelosi line. the pelosi line for government employment goes up, up, up. so, under pelosi private sector jobs go down. government jobs go up. the private sector pays for the public sector, but there are no private sector jobs. maybe tt's the budget committee won't meet, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's timeas expired. . for what purpose does the