Well, I hope if you need them you get them, so that GAO does not come back to us--because I am watching those reports on the 16 States.

Well, can you submit that for the record. I would like to have that information about it.

We must do more to make the Federal Government the employer of choice.

As Chairman and now Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia since 1999, I have worked hard to enact flexibilities to ensure the Federal Government has…

What I am really interested in is the method that you would go about to review and improve OPM as the new boss.

It is discouraging that they are available and they are not being used. That is where OPM should be out there talking to folks about why agencies are not using these flexibilities.

One of the problems I think we have in government, and I have talked to one person after another who have left the Federal service, is they say, I go to work for an agency, I work my butt off, and I do not get recognized for it.

People are not aware of this, but the backlog of security clearances, particularly with private contractors, is costing us a lot of money.

I would really like you to look at that because in some areas it has been really successful.

If you can do that in your shop, you will be able to lead by example.

The transformation of the Department is on the High-Risk List, and one of the things that we have been trying to do is to get an agreement on the metrics that we would use to determine whether transformation actually is taking place.

There is no way that we will be ever able to afford to really secure the border without immigration reform in this country.