we actually needed people who were selected for their expertise because they were public stewards

the damage that could be done between now and the next administration is really serious

This administration has been messing with the civil service.

the Schedule F is that it undermines the basic premise that our career work force should be selected for their expertise

His father, Senator Sarbanes, was a model public servant who believed in public service.

OMB has identified 425 people, nearly 90 percent of its staff, for conversion to this Schedule F.

it is really a fundamental attack upon the core notion that we need merit-based system professionals

In the last 20 years, FERC has received 1,021 applications to build natural gas projects by energy companies. It has only denied six of more than 1,000.

Would you agree that an easement by--a pipeline easement generally reduces the value of somebody's property and makes it much harder to sell?

FERC has become a rubber stamp for the energy companies that want to build pipelines on other people's land.

Why do the pipeline companies win more than 99 percent of the time?

I want to start with you, Mr. Morenoff, I assume you're not bragging about the new policy on tolling orders adopted by FERC, because that was done, prompted by the D.C. Circuit Court's ruling which cited the work of our subcommittee…

But you wash your hands of that. FERC basically washes its hand of that process.

Well, would you agree with my assessment that the odds are overwhelmingly on the side of the energy companies at every step in the process?

Are we going to stand up for the rights of the people or for the power of big corporations?

if a company turns tail and does a U-turn, that the land should go back and they should have to restore it.

FERC turns out to be biased, severely, against individual property owners, against the citizens of the country.

There's nothing in the law that stops you from doing that.

I thank Mr. Trone for yielding, and I want to thank our distinguished majority leader for sponsoring this special hour devoted to honoring the great Senator Sarbanes. Along with Senator Mikulski, Senator Sarbanes was the first Senator I…

For the purpose of closing. Mr. Speaker, I, too, thank Mr. Deutch and Mr. Wilson for their hard work on this important resolution. Mr. Speaker, American foreign policy must work to advance and protect basic human rights around the world…

For the purpose of closing. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to strongly support H. Res. 1100, which recognizes Mongolia's commitment to democracy, security, cooperation, and respect for human rights and reaffirms the important growing…

For the purpose of closing. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for his very thoughtful and eloquent statement in defense of religious freedom, the value that unites us behind this powerful resolution, which will put the government squarely…

Shouldn't the Bureau actually have been given more time than usual to finish its work rather than less?

Do you agree with this decision to rush the count and data processing could affect the quality and the accuracy of the data assembled?

This is yet one more effort by the administration to politicize and destabilize and disrupt the Census in violation of the Constitution.