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No sequester furloughs for NRC staff
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02/28/13 12:21 PM ET
The chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission told Congress Thursday that sequester cuts slated to take effect the following day would not take the commission's employees off the job.
"We do not foresee any furloughs or layoffs," Macfarlane said under questioning.
Barring eleventh-hour action by Congress to stop them, government-wide spending cuts totaling $85 billion would hit at midnight Thursday night. Administration officials have warned the sequester cuts could trigger more than a million federal employee furloughs.
