Jerry Moran: “Mr. Speaker, this is a shadow of its former self. We had a number of provisions in this that I think would have gone a…”

“Mr. Speaker, this is a shadow of its former self. We had a number of provisions in this that I think would have gone a long ways towards reforming some of the parts of the civil service system that really need to be addressed; for example, the appeals process. Right now people with mixed appeals can decide they want to appeal a grievance to the Merit System Protection Board or the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission or the National Federal Labor Relations Board. They have got any number of choices, and if they really want to obstruct the process of appealing and make it very difficult for a manager to discipline an employee, that employee has any number of ways to punish the manager for even attempting to do so. So what we wanted to do was to tell the employee, pick one appeals process. Speed up the process. We do not have enough time, with all the responsibilities of the Federal Government, to get bogged down in simply these structural appeals processes that have much more to do with process than with progress. Another thing that we wanted to do was to give more discretion to managers and to employees.”