TSP's G Fund Helps Delay Debt Ceiling
CBP Could Escape Furloughs
Feds Flock to TSP's L Funds
EIG 2013 as Told by Your Tweets
Boldly Go Where No Fed's Gone Before
The Big Squeeze: Defense Under Sequester
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Amelia Gruber
Senior Editor
Amelia Gruber covered management and contracting for Government Executive for three years before becoming an editor. She also has worked as an editor at Roll Call newspaper and as a research assistant at the Urban Institute. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Carleton College, with a major in economics, and a master’s degree from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.
Forest Service ends controversial fleet maintenance contract
May 5, 2006 The Forest Service earlier this week terminated the California fleet maintenance contract that two years ago fueled a debate about federal employees' rights to appeal agency outsourcing decisions. The agency cancelled the contract, awarded to Serco Management Services Inc., as the result of a public-private job competition completed in January ...
House panel backs 2.7 percent military pay raise
April 26, 2006 A House subcommittee on Wednesday approved legislation calling for a 2.7 percent across-the-board military pay raise next year, upping the ante on President Bush, who has backed a 2.2 percent boost for both military service members and civilian federal employees. The inclusion of the higher figure in the version of ...
Trade official nominated to be next OMB director
April 18, 2006 President Bush on Tuesday said he will nominate the top trade official to lead the Office of Management and Budget. Rob Portman has been the U.S. trade representative for nearly a year and previously served more than a decade in Congress, where he held influential positions on the House Budget ...
Report: IRS plan to close service centers based on faulty data
March 24, 2006 The Internal Revenue Service based a May 2005 decision to shut down 68 taxpayer assistance centers that employ 430 people on unreliable data, according to an investigative report released this week. The IRS placed the downsizing on hold at the request of lawmakers, pending the results of the report from ...
Contest to represent DHS workers will begin in May
March 22, 2006 Two major federal employee unions have agreed on a set of rules for an election to determine which will gain exclusive rights to represent a large group of Homeland Security Department employees. The Federal Labor Relations Authority will mail ballots to the homes of roughly 21,000 eligible employees at DHS' ...
Interior secretary resigns; will leave at end of month
March 10, 2006 Interior Secretary Gale Norton on Friday announced that she will resign at the end of March. Norton, who had been in her post for five years, said in a March 9 letter to President Bush that, while there will "never be a perfect time to leave," she is ready to ...
Federal program performance up slightly, OMB reports
February 2, 2006 Nearly three fourths of federal programs evaluated in time for the release of President Bush's fiscal 2007 budget request have been found to be at least somewhat effective, Office of Management and Budget officials said Thursday. Documents accompanying the 2007 budget, to be unveiled Monday, will show that 72 percent ...
Homeland Security chief financial officer to step down
January 18, 2006 The Homeland Security Department's top financial executive announced Tuesday that he will leave this spring. In a resignation letter to President Bush, Andrew Maner, who took over as the department's chief financial officer in early 2004, said he will step down on March 3. Bush announced that he intends to ...
VA violated law in funding outsourcing studies, GAO says
December 2, 2005 The Veterans Affairs Department has violated a 1981 law that prohibits the diversion of funds appropriated to medical care accounts to research on the cost of keeping work in-house versus that of contracting it out, the Government Accountability Office reported this week. VA officials disagree. Between fiscal 2001 and fiscal ...
Report: OMB should increase health care cost estimates for job competitions
November 21, 2005 The Office of Management and Budget should increase the amount it requires agencies running public-private job contests to factor in for federal employee teams' health care-related costs, congressional auditors recommended in a letter published Friday. For the past six years, OMB has asked agencies to use a standard cost factor ...
