After filing bug 1434062, I went to assign it to myself as I normally would. Apparently, since I'm no longer a Red Hat employee, I can't assign bugs (even to myself) or set their status other than to NEW/CLOSED. This needs to be fixed not only for myself but in general so that external contributors can actually follow the process Red Hat has mandated that they follow.
I'll request this for you at the Red Hat Bugzilla team. Other contributors already have these permissions too.
Thanks, Niels.
Jeff, please check if you can close this now. Maybe you need to logout/login into Bugzilla before the permissions get applied to your session.
Jeff confirmed that this was addressed and has the options now.