A partial government shutdown began at midnight this morning
(October 1st) for the first time in 17 years, after the Republican-led House
refused to pass federal funding legislation without including measures to kill
or delay the three-year-old Affordable Care Act, and the Democratic-led Senate
and President Obama refusing the approve any legislation that contained those
measures.
Nearly all Federal Communications Commission staff are affected by the government shutdown furloughs.
With no appropriations bill for the fiscal year that starts
Oct. 1, about 98 percent of the FCC workforce will remain home after, in most
cases, spending a half day at work for the orderly shutdown of operations, the
agency's shutdown plan says.
The FCC employs 1,754 employees at last count.
After furloughs go into effect, 38 employees--including
Acting Chairwoman Mignon Clyburn, two commissioners and three full time
information technology workers and one part-time IT worker--will remain at
work, the plan says.
Employees exempt from furloughs caused by the lack of
appropriations aren't paid until Congress passes a funding measure.
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