Secretary, my point is that we're going to be back apparently pretty close to the same complement of FD that we had. I understand that. Now, how many of the replacements are political as opposed to career? Virtually all of them are career. So I wanted to ask you a question about experts having been rehired. But is your position that all of the people that were hired to fill these positions did not work there in the past? (05:20–05:23)
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Asserts that nearly all new hires are career employees, not political appointees.
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