Congress and the White House both support a bill now moving on Capitol Hill that would retroactively compensate government workers put on furlough during the shutdown. The White House released a policy statement that "strongly supports" the House passage of the Federal Employee Retroactive Pay Fairness Act, which currently has 152 co-sponsors from both political parties. The bill would retroactively compensate hundreds of thousands of federal employees, once the government is funded, for any lapse in payment between October 1 and the end of the shutdown. On Tuesday, more than 1,000 Department of Justice lawyers across the country were sent home without pay. There is no vote scheduled for the bill today but it could appear during sessions on Saturday or Monday. "The Administration appreciates that the Congress is acting promptly to move this bipartisan legislation and looks forward to the bill's swift passage," the White House policy statement said. For The National Law Journal's coverage of the shutdown and its harm on law firms, federal agencies and the judiciary, visit at.law.com/shutdown.
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