Many Federal agencies have limited resources to invest in recruitment programs.

Well, again, thank you very much for your responses. You have been very helpful to us.

All of us would agree it is critically important.

I understand OPM provides policy support to Federal agencies on recruitment, but does not have one office focused on government-wide recruitment.

I believe that many agencies need to take a more proactive approach to recruitment.

Thank you very much, Senator Burris.

To attract them, I think the most important change is for the government to become an active recruiter.

I hope that you all have had a chance to review S. 736, the Federal Hiring Process Improvement Act, which Senator Voinovich and I introduced.

We need a controlled burn through our regulations and through our building that will take out a lot of the dead wood.

Thank you very much, Senator Voinovich.

I will work with Senator Burr on finding another opportunity.

This is the reason we are starting sooner than we had planned.

These nominations are important to us.

Well, thank you very much for your responses. It will be helpful to this Subcommittee, and I want to thank you for being here today and wish you well in your future work.

We have so much more to do, but we are going to have to work together to do it.

I am encouraged by your statement on the importance of congressional oversight, and if confirmed, I hope you will encourage greater transparency and accountability throughout the DHS.

Recruiting, retaining, and developing the next generation of national security employees is critically important.

It is good to have you here with the Subcommittee.

I am planning to introduce legislation that provides effective tools to recruit, retain, and develop national security employees.

I want to say aloha and welcome to our witnesses, and thank you so much for being here today.

Well, I am glad to hear that the move is in that direction.

I appreciate reading about you and also listening to what you are saying today because many things that you are espousing here is music to my ears, and I am so glad to hear you say them.

I hope this would help injured servicemembers experience a more seamless transition from active duty to civilian life.

I look forward to working with you and the Members of this Committee to advance legislation that will help improve the lives of servicemembers, veterans, and their families.

This would provide them with the financial tools to arrange whatever services they need to live in their own homes.