Dear Senator Collins:

On behalf of our nationwide membership, I am writing to express our shock and disappointment with your comments and those of Senator Lieberman about continuing the federal employee pay freeze contained within your recent letter to the Congressional “Super Committee.”

In letters to the Chairmen of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee and the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee along with Ranking members of both committees, the Federal Wildland Fire Service Association (FWFSA) challenged those in Congress who continue to attack the federal workforce and suggest that it is the federal workforce that is responsible for our Nation’s fiscal ills and thus that same federal workforce who should shoulder the burden of fixing the budget deficit.