Political Quotes

“As Representative Perry knows, he is showing great leadership on the T&I subcommittee that oversees public building use, economic development, and emergency management. In fact, we had a hearing last week with a couple of witnesses to discuss the very issue of office use space with the General Services Administration. There is quite a bit of agreement on the committee right now about the fact that we have a problem of empty office space and there is not a good alignment between the use of the space and telework policies. We are trying to get the GSA, the General Services Administration, to take a look at that hard and come up with a better balance. Representative Perry is leading that effort, and I congratulate him for that. It is because of his leadership on that that we have some bipartisan agreement approaching that issue. That said, the FAA telework policies that are under fire from this amendment existed prior to COVID-19, and they exist today. The FAA itself--as many agencies are--is trying to find that new balance post- COVID. I continue to support the agency's ability to establish and revise, as needed, their commonsense telework policies. We have achieved a bipartisan, commonsense approach to dealing with and overseeing FAA telework coming out of this pandemic, and I urge Members to reject this amendment, which will take us backward.…”