I want to thank you both on the first panel for your testimonies and your responses.
I was pleased that the system was repealed. Federal employees, especially those charged with defending our Nation, are e...
The American people expect strong leadership from the Federal Government.
We really need to get our hiring processes in order, so we can attract the best people into the Federal Government.
I have long been concerned that contractors at DHS and elsewhere are performing inherently governmental functions, work ...
I am a strong supporter of veterans preference in Federal hiring.
The current Federal hiring process we know will not be up to the task of workforce balancing.
That is the agency's responsibility, to put in place measures, so that the contractors that came in to do the drilling r...
We must ensure that Federal agencies remain in control of their missions, and I am hopeful that OMB's work will move us ...
We need to ensure that government employment continues to be attractive enough that we retain new Federal employees once...
I believe that every person who works for the Department of Veterans Affairs, no matter what their job, should feel that...
In theory, the Competitive Sourcing Initiative was supposed to push agencies to contract for services that the commercia...
If an agency is looking at its core capabilities--Senator Voinovich and you talked earlier about cyber security professi...
First of all, we have got to recognize and address the hiring challenges posed by workforce balancing efforts, and I thi...
As always, I want to thank Senator Voinovich who has been a partner on these issues.
That is all right. Well, we will do a second round here.
Without question, some things are changing, the culture is changing.
We do not feel like Charlie Brown with the football, as we seem to have every year.