"Why are we doing Senate confirmation for someone that the agency is picking to be in a relationship with us? So that seems nonsensical."
"I have no problem with maintaining ethics for individuals that are serving in government, but we are talking about those that are literally in the application process at that point."
"That is not right. Again, if they take the job on, that is different than you have to sacrifice all this stuff and then we will tell you later whether you are actually going to get it or not."
"Going through the Presidential nomination process is the equivalent of a full-body cavity search through everything in your life and everything in your history and everything in your finances."
"The Obama Administration, in eight years, had several IG positions they just refused to ever nominate someone for, and they did not want the oversight in that area."
"It is incredibly important to be able to be in this conversation, and I really appreciate you getting this out."
"The COVID pandemic I also declare to be the largest pilot program ever done by the Federal Government on innovation and managing people and hiring and basic oversight."
"Our hiring system is definitely broken, and it shows every time we get to one of these hearings and someone else asks for another way to be able to get around it."
"We have to be able to make some decisive steps to be able to get to the future, and that is going to begin with improving our hiring process."
"If you do not trust me, do not hire me."
"How do we get that list? How do we get the list of all those things?"
"I think Congress is correct in wanting some kind of check or watchdog to make sure that there are not abuses when these things happen."