"OPM moves from a compliance organization and mother-may-I, to use your term on that as well, to more of a conversation from the Executive Branch."
"You cannot legislate culture, just like you cannot legislate good management practices."
"We need to get rid of veterans preference. That is completely wrong."
"Madam Chairwoman, can I ask a couple more questions?"
"Right. But we are back to Ms. Gerton's statement earlier that that is a shift and a focus for OPM to say I am a facilitator to these individuals that are actually doing it rather than a permission, co..."
"You ought to be able to hire someone and get them in a seat in under 30 days."
"Right now, we assume quite a few of the writing samples are actually someone else writing it."
"If you are in rural Oklahoma, you have not met someone who has worked for the Federal Government before."
"Thank you."
"Go ahead, if you are OK with that."
"So are there needs that we have as far as a change in statute to allow more of that communication to occur at this point?"
"We have 13,000 people in schools who have been trained just in the last couple of years, just to be able to help with suicide prevention."