Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, on the report that China is allegedly preparing a biological weapon for WWIII and pressing the communist country on coronavirus origins.
EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, is introducing a new bill to cut the size of the federal bureaucracy and prevent political appointees from turning their appointments into lifelong, career positions.
The Iowa Republican plans to introduce the Reduce Bureaucracy Act on Wednesday to limit the size of the federal government while making sure that federal appointees cannot ‘burrow’ into their agencies by taking a lifelong career role, according to a press release obtained first by Fox News.
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OPM would oversee an agency-led effort to get federal workers into new jobs.
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A Senate committee on Wednesday advanced a measure to grow initiatives at federal agencies to teach employees new trades, looking to continue an effort first launched under the Trump administration.
The Facilitating Federal Employee Reskilling Act (S. 1330) would task the Office of Personnel Management with overseeing programs across the government aimed at developing skills that would qualify employees for new jobs. At the end of their training, employees could return to their old jobs or transfer to new positions at the same grade that use their new skills. The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee approved the measure unanimously.
Proposed legislation would prevent hourly wage employees from receiving a different locality pay adjustment than salaried employees working in the same location.
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