Chellie Pingree: “The Farm Production and Conservation Business Center was meant to streamline the agencies and increase efficiency, but I…”

We, therefore, ask you to withdraw OPM and MSPB’s proposed rule, 'Promoting Employee Accountability,' and consider alternatives that preserve federal workers’ longstanding civil service protections.

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

I thank the ranking member for yielding me this time. Mr. Speaker, I oppose this full-year continuing resolution and urge my colleagues to reject it. If we vote ``no'' and reject this CR, then we can go back to work and negotiate a…

It just seems like it would be a horrific time to lose those research capacities and also give up the body of research that we already have.