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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20130719:14:54:00

Following the sequester cuts. there are civilians back here day in, day out sent the servicemembers off to combat, taken care of families while they re deployed and reintegrating into installations. to ask them to sacrifice again is personally very painful for me to do that. and tough for these employees. that amounts to 20% pay cut for 11 weeks, bill. bill: i heard that harley. the defense department is not acting broke, dan. still buying land around that base, is it not? well, that s the amazing thing. the dod and other federal agencies are spending right now $12 million to buy land around this base to help protect a pocket gopher? it is being discussed as a possible threatened species. the not threatened yet but a possible threatened species. the habitat is prayerly land on and around the base. ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20130719:16:23:00

Dan? reporter: jon we re talking about serious money that has been spent. nearly $400 million spend by the dod on furry critters over the last 10 years. meanwhile 6,000 civilian employees and 650,000 employees around the country who are on furlough because of sequester cuts. they re forced to lose one day of pay, forced layoff for one day per week, through the end of september. it s a 20% pay cut during that time. saving the dod $1.8 billion. but it is a hardship for those affected. it is our civilians back here who day in, day out sent the servicemembers off to combat, taking care of their families while they re deployed and reintegrating them back into the installation. asking them to sacrifice again is personally very painful for me to do that. reporter: but while the dod is furloughing humans it is spending millions of dollars to protect a pocket gopher. ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20130719:23:51:00

Over the last 10 years, the defense department has spent nearly $400 million helping critters. the latest is the pocket gopher. take a look. this is what it looks like. it s not even listed federally as being threatened. biologists couldn t tell us how many are left or how they differ from gopher species around the one country that are thriving. the dod is buying land around the base because it s gopher habitat. some of the furloughed humans aren t happy about it. that really makes me mad that they would do that. i mean, i m all for saving animals. i m. anna: mall lover. but at what cost are we going to do that? 10,000 civilian employees here at joint base lewis mccord are among 650,000 being furloughed one day a week for 11 weeks at 20% pay cut over that time. a defense department spokesman says the environmental grants are small and have the added benefit of providing a buffer around bases, which lessens conflict with naciousz over training. ....

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