Martin O'Malley: “The good news is that this program has the support of 80 percent of the American people in a time of pretty polarized…”

The Senate mark is certainly far preferable to what the House proposed to do to us.

They are driving people out there with a viciousness that I believe will collapse the agency…. We have a 50-year low in staffing while the Baby Boomer generation is swelling their ranks.

To pick an acting commissioner that is not in the senior executive service sends a message that professional people should leave that beleaguered public agency.

Everybody who can is going to take that early out, but I think that 7,000 number is conservative.