This has been an issue that plagues us, because of the number of regulations that we have and the number of agencies that are creating them.
I think everything we can do within this Committee to deal with the staggering statistics that all of us share...
How do we fix this problem? Because for years, there has been this conversation about fixing it.
Do we need 120 different hiring authorities in the Federal Government?
We desperately need someone to be able to help us work that process out.
We want to have a collaborative relationship because at the end of the day, the American people do not need to hear it is somebody else's fa...
I do not think we do, and it is one area that we want to be able to work together.
That actually exists in the commercial marketplace.
We have Federal properties that we have had empty for more than a decade in trying to figure out what to do with them.
Science that is paid for by the Federal tax dollars should not be then retained by individuals saying, 'I am going to hang onto that.'
I am not opposed to research, and I am grateful every time I pick up my cell phone or visit a doctor's office for research in the past.