03/03/2021
https://www.congress.gov...
"We do not do the same with civilian managers."
"Our civilian workforce has become accustomed to hiring freezes, to furloughs, even a Government shutdown, and it is getting worse."
"We need to treat them as one workforce and respect them as one workforce."
"I appreciate this because it just seems to me we have got to have both compensation structures and opportunity structures that really help our civilian employees that recognize all they have done, but..."