Pentagon to recall most furloughed workers, easing shutdown pain

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Pentagon to recall most furloughed workers, easing shutdown pain

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/washington-still-deadlocked-shutdown-debt-ceiling-010446851--business.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/95drlufGW2Mcm2g1.GBOXQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-10-04T194354Z_1_CBRE9931B2V00_RTROPTP_2_USA-FISCAL-BOEHNER.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="U.S. House Speaker Boehner (R-OH) addresses reporters during a news conference with fellow House Republicans at the U.S. Capitol in Washington" align="left" title="U.S. House Speaker Boehner (R-OH) addresses reporters during a news conference with fellow House Republicans at the U.S. Capitol in Washington" border="0" /></a>By Phil Stewart and Thomas Ferraro WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon said on Saturday it would recall most of the roughly 400,000 civilian Defense Department employees sent home during the government shutdown, in a move that could greatly lessen the impact of the shutdown on America's armed forces. The exact number to be recalled remained uncertain. Civilian Pentagon employees comprise about half the 800,000 federal employees currently furloughed. ...</p><br clear="all"/>

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