Deadline Extended for Cost-Cutting Ideas

Apparently OMB wants even more cost-cutting ideas from federal employees. Last week, OMB Director Peter Orszag made a plea for feds to submit their ideas in the second annual SAVE Awards, noting that the deadline was Thursday, July 22.

Now, though, a message on the SAVE Awards website says "submissions will now be accepted through July 29th."

It's not like there was a huge shortage of ideas: As of Sunday, more than 16,000 proposals for making government more efficient had been posted, drawing 144,000 votes and 11,000 comments from 17,000 users. Of course, that's a far cry from the 38,000 ideas submitted in the first SAVE Awards round.