ABC has not independently confirmed that Schroeder is a fired federal employee, but Schroeder told CNN on Wednesday he wasn't at the Capitol to "get his job back" but wanted to ask lawmakers what they were going to do to ensure residents were "getting the services that they're entitled to."

GOP Sen. Jim Banks of Indiana says he won't apologize over his comments calling a fired federal worker "a clown" who "probably deserved" to lose his job.

In a video that went viral, Sen. Jim Banks tells a stunned former Health and Human Services employee, “You probably deserved it.”