That is really interesting.

Why in the devil do you think we wanted to go to the system for in the first place?

It is amazing to me. Have you ever looked at how they go about developing their leaders, or is it because they are in the Army or the Navy or the Marine Corp, there is a different environment and not analgous to civilian agencies?

I mean, Senator Akaka and I are trying to improve USAJOBS, which it is just archaic.

How can OPM work to encourage Federal agencies to make greater use of internship programs as recruitment tools?

In their evaluation, do you look at whether or not they are paying attention to the issue of diversity in terms of their hiring practices?

Is there any recruiting going on that you know of where diversity is the target?

Some of the complaints that we had is it takes a lot of time to do performance evaluation.

We went from a cap of $40,000 to $60,000 and from $6,000 a year to $10,000 a year.

I really hope that in spite of the fact that people are conscientiously working on some kind of a climate bill that serious consideration be given to the energy bill.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

I for one and many of my constituents are very pleased that it is coming back with your leadership and your determination with President Obama.