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You have been an advocate on this, not only as a county commissioner, but now as my State senator and someone I enjoy calling my friend.

I want to thank my colleague Ms. Foxx for her leadership on this particular issue, for your leadership in bringing forward this hearing.

I have always admired the purpose and spirit of UMRA, but weaknesses in the law have been exploited in the intervening decades, and they need to be addressed.

UMRA was designed to force the Federal Government to estimate and report how much its mandates would cost local and State governments, which was previously not the case.

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.

I need a commitment to keep the same standards.

Don't change the standard, okay.

A lot of times Federal employees get beat up in the debates that happen here on Capitol Hill, and it's very important that they hear this message loud and clear, that they're appreciated not only by the American people but by members of…

I'm pleased to see that a governmentwide engagement scores continue to trend positive for the second year in a row.

And this hearing hopefully will provide a platform to closely examine what the Federal employee engagement and satisfaction levels are.

I might add that it was the director of the Department of Homeland Security that originally encouraged us, along with Max, to change the name of this from the worst places to work to the best places to work.

The Subcommittee on Government Operations will come to order.

I'm willing to work in a bipartisan way.

We could not be prouder of our team's victory last night. To paraphrase the greatest basketball player of all time and a fellow UNC alumnus, Michael Jordan, who was perhaps channeling Yogi Berra, ``The ceiling truly is the roof.'' Hark the…

I do believe that going to a worker-centric versus workplace-centric model where things can move around makes a lot of sense.

The 21st Century Cures Act requires FDA to update guidance and regulations for regenerative therapeutic products.