Excerpt from H. R. 3218, the Federal Workforce Restructuring Act of 1993: Joint Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Compensation and Employee Benefits and the Subcommittee on Civil Service of the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session An ironclad figure of a employee reduction, which does not have a scientific basis, should not be the test of reform and must not become a barrier to reinventing government. Reform can and will occur without rifs, but rifs will build resistance and stop reform in its tracks. Moreover, layoffs as a way to help reform government would be particularly inept today when, despite its best efforts, the administration has not succeeded in stimulating the economy to promote real job growth, and the recovery has been characterized by productivity but not job increases. I am not concerned that layoffs have not been ruled out in the report because I do not believe they will be necessary to reach a goal acceptable to the administration and the Congress. The pro posal today must be taken as an assumption that we can and will reach a reasonable goal through the proposals we examine today. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.