The only way the Federal Government will succeed in accomplishing its many missions is if we improve our ability to recruit and retain a world class workforce.
There is no way that we will be ever able to afford to really secure the border without immigration reform in this country.
I want to echo the thanks of this Committee and others for your service to our country and for the service of your husband to our country.
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 o...
What I am really interested in is the method that you would go about to review and improve OPM as the new boss.
You can't do it. You know it and everybody else knows it and it is about time we leveled with people.
if the Governors got together... you could have a major, major impact on what we are doing.
A gas tax increase on the Federal level would help, but it is not in and of itself the long-term answer.
Then what you tell them is, I am sorry, folks, we are not going to be able to do the job that needs to be done in our Country.
We have a really awful infrastructure problem in this Country, and you have heard the other Senators talk about other countries.
I think it is important that we get this done on time, because even though we have the stimulus bill, we need to know where we are going, no...