Political Quotes

“I thank the ranking member of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, Mr. Raskin, for yielding this time. A couple quick things. H.R. 139 is an overly broad proposal that stretches across the entirety of the Federal Government workplace to say that each and every telework policy, practice, and procedure implemented in response to the global health crisis must end immediately in 30 days because a majority of the House of Representatives says so. Well, let's remember that in the word ``telework,'' the last four letters are w-o-r-k. People who telework are working. They are working day in and day out. And they have been working through the crisis, working to get us back to where we need to be. The bill says that the rest of America must then take time to study the majority of our edict today to see if it made sense in the first place. Now, if that is not a classic case of putting the cart before the horse or the tail wagging the dog, I don't know. I do know that this is not how a deliberative body, particularly this Chamber, should operate. We should at least have a hearing on this, bring in the proper agencies, review this in a real sort of way, and then figure out what we do. To act this way creates a real problem. The solution, I think, is looking for a problem, and this is not the place it ought to be. We have not talked with OPM. We have not talked with Federal agencies. We have really not talked with the IRS. We just condemn them.…”