The text quotes Paul C. Light's 2008 book saying that the federal service is suffering its...

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The text quotes Paul C. Light's 2008 book saying that "the federal service is suffering its greatest crisis since it was founded in the first moments of the republic... running out of energy [and] unable to faithfully execute all the laws." In short, Light finds that although government is functioning well, human capital problems are impeding progress at fundamental levels, and only by reforming these problems will the U.S.government be able to rise to its twenty-first- century The text quotes Paul C. Light's 2008 book saying that "the federal service is suffering its greatest crisis since it was founded in the first moments of the republic... running out of energy [and] unable to faithfully execute all the laws." In short, Light finds that although government is functioning well, human capital problems are impeding progress at fundamental levels, and only by reforming these problems will the U.S.government be able to rise to its twenty-first- century