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March 25, 2026
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.
March 25, 2026
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.
March 25, 2026
I would like to welcome everyone to today’s Energy and Water “Member Day” hearing. Today our fellow Members will have the opportunity to testify on issues under the jurisdiction of this subcommittee that are important to them.
March 25, 2026
Good morning, and welcome to this year’s Member Day hearing. Today, we welcome our colleagues to testify on their priorities for the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Department of Transportation for Fiscal Year 2027.
March 25, 2026
Good morning. Today’s hearing is on the quality of life for our enlisted soldiers, sailors, marines, airmen, guardians, and their families. The five witnesses at the table represent the highest enlisted level of leadership for their respective branches. This group’s insight is critical. This hearing is a great opportunity to identify areas where we can be more helpful to our service members and their families.
March 25, 2026
Washington, D.C. – The Department of Homeland Security has been shut down for 40 days, making it the longest partial government shutdown in history, and nearing the record-breaking 43-day total government shutdown from last fall.
Democrats continue to block funding for DHS over radical demands to impede our border security and immigration removal operations, despite the fact that CBP and ICE are both critical to our national security.
March 24, 2026
Chairwoman Foxx, Ranking Member McGovern, members of the Rules Committee, I appreciate the opportunity to testify today. I come before you today on H.R. 8029, the Pay Our Homeland Defenders Act. As we sit here, the Department of Homeland Security has been shuttered by Senate Democrats for nearly 50% of the fiscal year. That’s right, since last year, we are approaching one hundred days where DHS personnel and critical missions have been left in limbo, employees have reported to work without pay, and strain has been added to the very department charged with protecting the homeland.
March 24, 2026
Washington, D.C. – Today, House Appropriations Committee Chairman Tom Cole (R-OK) spoke before the House Committee on Rules in support of H.R. 8029, the Pay Our Homeland Defenders Act.
March 24, 2026
Washington, D.C. – As the Democrat-led shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shatters all the wrong records to become the longest partial government shutdown in history, it is the American people who are paying the price.
March 23, 2026
Washington, D.C. – As the Democrat-led Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shutdown stretches into its sixth week, Vice Chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security Rep. Juan Ciscomani (R-AZ) is leading a renewed effort in the House to fund critical security operations and pay personnel who are working with no paycheck thanks to Senator Schumer and his continued obstruction of full-year funding for the very agency tasked with protecting the homeland.
