Congress established a Meet and Confer requirement to provide for stakeholder input.
Congress also worked to slow down implementation, to transform the System's rollout into an event-driven process rather than one that follow...
I am leaving the Senate. As Senator Akaka says, we have spent 10 years trying to improve conditions for Federal workers.
I think it is not only going to be important to your members, but it is also going to be important to our national security and to the futur...
I am interested in the observations about the NSPS system.
We bumped the program up to a $60,000 cap, and $10,000 a year to try to make the Federal Government as competitive as we can possibly be.
I would say that I would take your time and do it right.
We thought that was not competitive, that you are not going to be able to draw people, and so we changed how leave is accrued.
You are going too fast. Slow down. Take your time. Make sure the training is there because you cannot do this unless you have the proper tra...
We have passed more Federal workforce legislation than any similar period.
That is why last year Senator Schumer and I introduced the Community Regeneration, Sustainability, and Innovation Act.
Prepared statement.
One of the key suggestions was taking steps to ensure that our communities are places where people want to live and to work.
We do not necessarily know how to manage shrinkage, and that is something that this legislation that Senator Schumer and I have worked on wi...
The report outlined a number of critical smart growth and livability ideas that we are already working on.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thanks for holding the hearing and for your leadership on livability issues.
I am preparing to introduce legislation--called the DIPLOMA Act--that will help communities coordinate, integrate, and provide services to s...
It was a bazooka I almost never had to use, but the legislature knew it was there.
