The Federal Hiring Process Improvement Act, I think, will help agencies and job applicants by eliminating the barriers for applying for Federal employment.

I think it is important that we examine the extent to which the Federal Government's work-life policies support our need to recruit and retain highly qualified individuals.

This type of strategic innovation is exactly what Senator Akaka and I hoped would result when we created the Chief Human Capital Officers Council 8 years ago.

the fiscal situation for the Federal Government is something that we will certainly need to be addressing

I look forward to finalizing that bill and to learning about other ways Congress can support work-life programs.

During his confirmation process, I challenged Director John Berry to lead by example and make the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) an employer of choice among Federal agencies.

I always feel good about this because Senator Akaka and I were able to get GAO flexibilities.

It would seem to me that probably for the benefit of this Subcommittee, that you get the people in that are really using this authority to find out why they are using this system rather than the regular hiring process.

Well, I think that we ought to call it for what it is and maybe it is a better system than the one we got by using USAJOBS.

They brought in over 1,000 people there.

Well, isn't that something that Jeffrey Zients and John Berry could get together and try to identify training spending?