Angus King: “Someone asked Buckminster Fuller, the famous architect, for advice on how to live a long life. His answer was 'always…”

Supply shortages and unjustified extended deployments also have a real impact on our ability to recruit and retain our servicemembers.

Military families and the American people deserve answers about when our heroes will come home and how DoD plans to restore military readiness that has been drained by this war.

We, therefore, ask you to withdraw OPM and MSPB's proposed rule.

This proposed rule would weaken longstanding civil service protections that promote merit-based employment, due process and the recruitment and retention of skilled workers.