I have always admired the purpose and spirit of UMRA, but weaknesses in the law have been exploited in the intervening d...
UMRA was designed to force the Federal Government to estimate and report how much its mandates would cost local and Stat...
And yet they're being forced with a decision of, do they renounce the country they love so that they can continue to tra...
No, there's no way, no.
Wouldn't you agree with that?
When you get information from rank-and-file employees and you do nothing with it, there is a problem.
And this hearing hopefully will provide a platform to closely examine what the Federal employee engagement and satisfact...
A lot of times Federal employees get beat up in the debates that happen here on Capitol Hill, and it's very important th...
I'm willing to work in a bipartisan way.
I need a commitment to keep the same standards.
Don't change the standard, okay.
The Subcommittee on Government Operations will come to order.
I might add that it was the director of the Department of Homeland Security that originally encouraged us, along with Ma...
I'm pleased to see that a governmentwide engagement scores continue to trend positive for the second year in a row.
I do believe that going to a worker-centric versus workplace-centric model where things can move around makes a lot of s...
I think that is probably what we have done with the faith-based treatment programs. We have tried to vilify them and und...
I think faith-based programs should be definitely included.
I think whatever we do at a policy level we need to be open to a variety of paths that people choose.