1.   And, unlike federal employees, they have no guarantee of pay for lost time.

2.   But the largest part of the permanent government is the bureaucracy, which has about three million federal civilian employees.

3.   Federal employees we know describe colleagues who spend their days reading magazines, planning sailing trips, or buying and selling stocks.

4.   Federal employees were again told to stay at home after the city was buried under a foot and a half of snow.

5.   For example, a federal employee who was thinking of buying a new car is going to postpone that Decision.

6.   He remains a federal employee and is handling preparations for the upcoming meeting of the seven major industrial nations.

7.   It eliminates the one-year waiting period for federal employees.

8.   The Hatch Act prohibits political activity by federal employees during work hours using government facilities.

9.   Without the passage of this legislation the government would have been unable to refinance the debt, to meet payments to defence contractors, or to pay federal employees.

10.   And House Speaker Newt Gingrich said he would work to pass appropriations bills and other measures targeted to put federal employees back to work.