Political Quotes

“I thank my colleague for his comments. We have civil service protections to protect career Federal employees from being fired or demoted just because the President or their supervisor disagrees with them politically. We must allow an administration the flexibility to decide that certain people are a bad fit for certain key roles and to let them transfer people so that the role can be filled with someone better suited for it. That is all we are asking. That is all this does. To accomplish this, the Trump administration created schedule F, which identified positions that had a ``confidential, policy- determining, policymaking, or policy-advocating character,'' and provided that the administration could change who served in those specific roles to make sure that they were willing and able to advance the agenda the President chose to pursue. This would apply to Biden. This would apply to Trump. This would have applied to Obama--regardless of party. My amendment simply defunds a Biden rule that blocks Presidents from using a similar policy in the future. Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.”