Hiring Reform: Long and Complicated

Here's OMB Director Peter Orszag, to the Washington Post's Joe Davidson, on the plan the Obama administration is developing to overhaul the federal hiring process:

"We have been working on hiring reform along with OPM. It takes too long and is too complicated. "

I can't resist asking: What, exactly, is taking too long? The hiring process, or the process of putting together the reform proposal?