Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman for yielding, and I want to thank him for his work in shepherding this through the process of bringing it to the House floor. Madam Speaker, I am delighted that we are going to be voting today on the Telework Improvements Act of 2010, a bill that I introduced some time ago with bipartisan cosponsorship. And I want to acknowledge Congresswoman Norton, who is here, Congressman Davis, Congressman Connolly, Jim Moran of Virginia, and other cosponsors. I do also want to salute the fact that we had bipartisan support for this from the outset--Congressman Wittman, Shelley Moore Capito and, of course, Frank Wolf, who has really been a leader on this issue from the get-go. He was working on telework before I even came to Congress and understood what a valuable contribution telework could make to our Federal workforce and its productivity. What this bill will do is expand the Federal telework policy, which was begun in a nascent way. There was just a survey done that indicated about 10 percent of the Federal workforce is now teleworking at least 1 day a week, but it can take that up to the next level by establishing a policy across our Federal agencies that promote telework and make it clear to employees how they can go about taking advantage of that opportunity. It would instruct the Office of Personnel Management to develop telework regulations, a uniform governmentwide telework policy for Federal employees.…”