Chellie Pingree: “So, yeah, I think you would be hard pressed to find an indigenous person that wasn't completely consumed with worrying…”

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

This is yet again another one of those amendments proposed by my colleagues on the other side of the aisle that seeks to deny climate change and actively proposes that we do nothing. Once again, they use all kinds of terminology. They call…

By stripping away the procedures that keep discipline fair for civilian employees doing the work of naval readiness... the proposed rule introduces costly unpredictability in the workforce and needlessly undermines readiness.

More than a month later, there are still so many basic questions that remain unanswered by ICE and the Trump administration.