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Charles S. Clark
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Charlie Clark joined Government Executive in the fall of 2009. He has been on staff at The Washington Post, Congressional Quarterly, National Journal, Time-Life Books, Tax Analysts, the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, and the National Center on Education and the Economy. He has written or edited online news, daily news stories, long features, wire copy, magazines, books and organizational media strategies.
HHS and Justice tout collaboration to combat Medicare fraud
February 14, 2012 Calling the 2010 health care reform law “the most significant anti-health fraud law in American history,” Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on Tuesday joined with Attorney General Eric Holder to announce that a record of almost $4.1 billion in taxpayer dollars were recovered in fiscal 2011 from individuals ...
Obama would restore recent cuts in IRS budget
February 14, 2012 President Obama’s fiscal 2013 request for the Internal Revenue Service is aimed at restoring funding that Republicans trimmed in 2011 as part of an ongoing political battle over the tax-collecting agency. The administration as part of the Treasury Department budget asked for $12.8 billion, which would be an increase of ...
Obama budget seeks savings via management reforms
February 13, 2012 President Obama’s fiscal 2013 budget released Monday is being billed as a blueprint that invests in short- and long-term needs through a balanced approach of increased revenues and spending cuts. It also offers “scores of cuts and consolidations,” including more than $7.5 billion in administrative savings. Appearing at Northern Virginia ...
Contractor Casualties
February 13, 2012 Among the American deaths in the Afghanistan war in 2011 were 430 employees of American contractors, The New York Times reported on Sunday. That’s more than the 418 U.S. troops who died the same year. The deceased contractors included 386 working for the Defense Department, 43 for the U.S. Agency ...
Subsidizing Contractor Retirements?
February 10, 2012 The nonpartisan group Citizens Against Government Waste has gone on the warpath against the practices many agencies use in reimbursing major contractors for the retirement costs of their employees. While most companies in recent decades have switched over from defined benefit plans to defined contribution plans, many contractors continue to ...
State Department gets mixed review on Keystone pipeline process
February 10, 2012 The State Department energy specialists in the eye of the political storm over the proposed Keystone XL pipeline conducted themselves with objectivity as they communicated with the relevant companies and the Canadian government, State’s inspector general said in a report made public Friday. The IG, however, questioned whether State possesses ...
GAO faults Pentagon data measuring insourcing
February 10, 2012 Days before the release of the Obama administration’s fiscal 2013 defense budget, the Pentagon’s three-year effort to move more contractor work in-house drew criticism from auditors for lacking clear and internally consistent data measuring progress. The Government Accountability Office, in an assessment released Thursday and required under the 2011 Defense ...
An Ad Blitz to Protect Pay
February 9, 2012 Viewers of the Sunday talk shows this weekend can expect to witness the opening salvo in an ad campaign rushed out during budget season by the American Federation of Government Employees. The 30-second spot to air on ABC and CBS (and again Monday and Tuesday on CNN, Fox and MSNBC) ...
IRS settles whistleblower suit, special counsel reports
February 9, 2012 The Internal Revenue Service has reached a settlement with a California-based employee who blew the whistle on mismanagement by a contractor, the Office of Special Counsel announced Wednesday. The case could have an impact on future cases involving the rights of employees to use government email to report problems. Charles ...
House passes STOCK Act requiring disclosure by federal employees
February 9, 2012 The House on Thursday overwhelmingly approved its version of the so-called STOCK Act, which aims primarily at curbing insider trading by lawmakers, but also includes a provision to extend disclosure requirements to thousands of federal employees. The measure that will affect federal workers differs slightly from a similar provision in ...
