Brad Wenstrup actually said...

"Some form of veterans preference has been a fixture in Federal hiring since the Civil War."

"One of the things I am taking away from this is that we don't really have a definitive system that we are working with on this."

"In reality, veterans preference is often thwarted by an overly complicated competitive or excepted service system."

"I think it is important that we also focus on the hiring and retention of high-quality employees within the department."