John Glenn: “The buyout bill, which is the basic bill we are talking about here, is very important. It has a great deal of urgency.…”

“The buyout bill, which is the basic bill we are talking about here, is very important. It has a great deal of urgency. We are beginning to run out of our available time window on this legislation as far as having it do any good and do what it was supposed to be able to do. The administration has proposed that we reduce the Federal work force by some 252,000 people. I support that. But I want to do it in the right way. The reason that we want to do it in the right way is not just to say, well, we laid off 252,000 people. What we want to do is restructure the Federal work force. By restructuring, I mean we have the wrong people in the wrong places right now, and this buyout bill we are considering is what will let us then make sure the people who are let go are not just out on a RIF, a reduction in force basis, but done in a way that will let us get the people out of Government we need out.”