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And everything goes crazy. Clearly, every time folks want to move a lot of legislation on federal management issues, I should be shipped out to a conference in Las Vegas.

But seriously, having movement in a single week on the Federal Employees Paid Parental Leave Act, TSP and FERS reform, and the National Security Personnel System review is significant. I'm not sure what the Paid Parental Leave Act's prospects are in the Senate, since all the debate we've seen on it has been in the House, and I'm not sure if Republican arguments about the bill's price tag will be any more convincing in the Senate than they were in the House. The real sign of momentum will be if the Senate moves expeditiously on any of these things, actually.