Chellie Pingree: “Technical assistance is one of the key opportunities and, frankly, challenges when it comes to serving rural places.”

We’ve gotta stop this, we’ve gotta stop ICE operations in Maine, but in the meantime we have to fight for each and every person who is allowed to be here and who is our friends and neighbors and coworkers.

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.

We actually have had a few meetings with the Forest Service, but they’re extremely vague, and our experience has been that even the heads of departments and services don’t always know what (the Office of Management and Budget) and the…

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Pennsylvania will be postponed. Amendment No. 82 Offered by Mr. Perry The Acting CHAIR. It…