On the recordFebruary 1, 2023
I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I have been waiting for this day for quite a while. Whenever I go back to my district, I talk to my staff back there. Again and again, we hear stories that they want something done with the VA; they want something done with the IRS. It can't get done. They are behind. It is time for people to get back to work. When I think of my district, I think the vast majority of people, their work schedule never changed even in the teeth of the epidemic. Obviously, in Wisconsin, there are a lot of cheese factories in my district. Man, I would go home every night and there would be people there at 11 p.m., 12 a.m., 2 a.m. All of a sudden, we hear how horrible it is for Federal employees to have to go in. In the current situation, what it tells you is--and this is true of many other programs, as well--the government works for the benefit of the government not the benefit of the people. {time} 1445 That is why people on that side of the aisle are trying so hard, so desperately hard today, not to have people come in. I talk to a lot of employers all over my district. There were times that any given number of their employees worked from home, but they know it is not the same thing. Why in the world the government should be operating on a separate schedule, I don't know. I will give you an example. The National Personnel Records Center is an egregious example.…
