Gerry Connolly: “But wearing the hat you've got, and knowing of your sensibilities in this regard, surely you can understand the angst…”

“But wearing the hat you've got, and knowing of your sensibilities in this regard, surely you can understand the angst created among Federal employees that this would be tantamount to a downgrading, not only of the position of OPM Director and the absorbing of OPM's responsibilities with respect to them in an agency whose primary role in life is managing Federal leases and buildings, and in the process downgrading their interests and their needs, too, with no guarantee that somehow service to them would be better.”