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The Office of Personnel Management, or OPM, plays a central role in most human resource decisions made within the Executive Branch. This is particularly true as it relates to the federal workforce. In 1979, Congress passed the Civil Service Reform Act, which disbanded the United States Civil Service Commission and reassigned most of its functions to three newly established agencies, including OPM. Over the last year, OPM has played a central role in implementing this Administration's workforce modernization initiatives.

Good morning.  I want to welcome everyone to the Subcommittee’s Fiscal Year 2027 Member Day hearing. Member requests are the core of the appropriations process. Under the leadership of full Committee Chairman Tom Cole, and with the hard work of the Members of the Appropriations Committee and our colleagues in the House, in Fiscal Year 2026 we started to return to regular order. We enacted 11 of the 12 full-year Appropriations bills, including our National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs bill.