i'm steve hopkins. i'm an employee of the environmental protection agency. i came to the district ten years ago to work on a pelosi side environmental stewardship program. we're have a turn to protect human health but also improve live and people. and working with industry to reduce cost and do it right. my message is very, very simple. i came here to do a job that congress mandated that congress asked me to do. all i want to do is be to be do my job, all of my colleagues want to do is do the job you brought us to here to do. do it well, and serve the american people the way we were brought here to do. i appreciate your support, and i hope question get back to work soon. we just now coming off a furlough of six days at epa. many of us are reeling from the economic shock. on average it was 2500 or more a piece that supposedly went in to reduce deficit. this comes up on top of that. every time we turn around we're being hit by some other uncertainty after we have the uncertainty of the budget crunch. wealth have a debt ceiling followed by something else follow

heard from steve hopkins, office of pesticide programs at the environmental protection agency. e.p.a. had to furlough 94% of their workers. 15,181 workers furloughed at e.p.a. so what is he not doing today that he could have been doing? helping keeping our environment safe for the overuse of pesticides, making it a little bit safer for our children as they breathe the air, drink the water of this country. that's what's at jeopardy here. now, i can tell you about their individual stories. when i talked to marcel decanto, he told me he just recently purchased a home in poolesville, maryland. we're happy about that. he has a mortgage payment. i asked how is your spouse doing? she is also furloughed. how are they going to pay their mortgage payment? it's interesting, a story that was told to us by carter kinsey. she was telling us the ethics that they use in scientific experiments, and they talk about how they treat the animals they use, and they say, you know, we make sure they get the resources necessary. they're fed, they are taken care of. well, how about our federal workers? s

steve vogel has written extensively of military history in the wars in afghanistan and iraq as a graduate from international public policy from john hopkins school of studies represent steve vogel. [applause] >> it really is a great honor to be here when they think about it the library of congress which you may or may not know was burned down as part of the story that i tell. is erotic to be here -- ironic to be here today. the attack on washington and of the burning of the white house and the library of congress comment today colbert's papers are at the library of congress so that is justice served of some kind. [laughter] but i do spend a lot of time there an equal resources both for the amount of material and the major scripps and really the terrific people that work there and many of them are here today in the orange t-shirts thank you to the library of congress. 200 years ago this spring a royal navy squadron showed up in the chesapeake bay to launch a chain of events to culminate in the boarding of washington and the battle for baltimore and to spur the creation of the "star spangled banner", our national anthem. most of the events

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i'm steve hopkins. i'm an employee of the environmental protection agency. i came to the district 10 years ago to work on a pesticide environmental stewardship program. whether we have the opportunity to protect human health and to improve the lives of people and working with industry to reduce costs and do it right, i message is simple -- i came here to do a job that congress mandated and asked me to do. all i want to do is do my job. all my colleagues want to do the job you brought us here to do. do it well and serve the american people the way we were brought here to do. i appreciate your support. i hope we all get back to work soon. we are coming off of a furlough of six days at epa. any of us are reeling from the economic shock. on average, that was 2500 dollars or more a piece that went into supposedly reducing the deficit. this comes up on top of that. every time we turn around, we are being hit i some other uncertainty -- by some other uncertainty. after this, we will have the debt ceiling followed by something else. that makes it difficult to keep m