; purpose (a) Findings Congress makes the following findings: (1) Components within the Department of Homeland Security face personnel shortages related to hiring processes, retention of employees, and surges in need. (2) In response to the devastation caused by Hurricane Harvey, Hurricane Irma, Hurricane Jose, and Hurricane Maria, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has deployed thousands of their temporary on-call reservists and specialized Cadre On-Call Response/Recovery (CORE) workforces. (3) In 2017, the Director of the United States Secret Service asked Congress to increase federally mandated caps on salary and overtime for the agency. At the time of the request, more than 1,000 agents had worked numerous, uncompensated hours of overtime. The Director cited a protracted presidential campaign, a large first family, ongoing personnel shortages, and increasing demands in investigative missions as having strained the organization. (4) In 2015, the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform of the House of Representatives issued bipartisan report documenting the Secret Service as understaffed, overburdened, and in crisis . The agency has posted announcements to hire annuitants for the position of investigator to help mitigate shortages in their investigative mission. (5) In 2016, Congress approved a request from the Transportation Security Administration to hire new officers and pay overtime to ease travel disruptions and increase security. (6) The Transportation Security Administration 2017 budget request calls for the first Federal Air Marshal class since 2011. (7) In 2017, Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement initiated a hiring surge. The Carl Levin and Howard P. Buck McKeon National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015 ( Public Law 113–291 ), extended the temporary authority for agency heads (including the Secretary of Homeland Security) to grant dual compensation waivers for certain part-time, temporary reemployed annuitants through December 2019. Dual