Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, in July 2001, the Office of Personnel Management updated its report entitled Human Resources Flexibilities and Authorities in the Federal Government. The report states that the government as a single employer remains sound public policy. Consequently, it is important to retain government-wide approaches, authorities, entitlements, and requirements in several areas, including collective bargaining, merit system principles, due process protections related to adverse actions and, among other things, veterans preference in employment and retention. If, as the report states, government as a single employer is sound public policy, the overly broad and hastily developed human resources authorities granted to the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Defense, and now the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA, are simply not the best sound public policy. That is not to say that the current civil service system is not in need of reform. It is.”