Gerry Connolly actually said...

It is a complicated picture, and some of the protections... are there for a reason.

My experience is the opposite. The Federal workforce is a dedicated group of workers.

We have got a long way to go in streamlining hiring process, making it easier, less bureaucratic, less paper-dominated.

There is still a lot of discrimination, favoritism, nepotism, outright outrageous discriminatory behavior...