Older Feds Aren't Playing to Their Strengths
Is It Too Hard to Fire Misbehaving Feds?
Americans Still Like the Postal Service
A Forced 4-Day Weekend for Many Feds
No More Tax-Cheating Feds, Senators Say
Video: The Daily Show on Apple's Taxes
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Charles S. Clark
Senior Correspondent
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.
Momentum builds to require feds to disclose stock trades
February 3, 2012 The Senate’s passage Thursday of the so-called STOCK Act to require lawmakers to disclose investment transactions could rope thousands of federal employees into a new obligation to make public their own stock market moves to help prevent illegal insider training. Many lawmakers and government transparency advocates are pleased. Language by ...
Deputy secretaries cite their proudest accomplishments
February 2, 2012 Political appointees serving as chief operating officers at five departments named their top accomplishments at a panel hosted by the nonprofit National Academy of Public Administration on Wednesday. The Obama administration deputy or undersecretaries at the Agriculture, Commerce, Education, Energy and Veterans Affairs departments are among top political appointees profiled ...
House Republican seeks to curb 'deceitful' subcontracting
February 2, 2012 Seeking to level the playing field for small businesses in federal contracting, the chairman of a House subcommittee on Thursday introduced a bill to “give small contractors a voice when their work is being unfairly insourced,” a reference to the Obama administration’s three-year effort to rely less on contractors in ...
State’s New Power Source
February 1, 2012 Now and again, the times call for a new organizational chart. At the State Department last fall, officials commandeered a wing and installed signage for the brand-new Bureau of Energy Resources. The reorganization capped a five-year bipartisan effort to “focus greater attention on energy diplomacy questions” during a time of ...
OMB officials detail reorganization plan and headway against waste
January 31, 2012 President Obama’s recent proposal to consolidate business and trade agencies in a single department would be the first government reorganization to require that changes either eliminate an agency or save money, according to Lisa Brown, executive director of the Office of Management and Budget’s Government Reform for Competitiveness and Innovation ...
White House reopens debate over contractor pay
January 31, 2012 Unsatisfied with the contractor pay reforms in the fiscal 2012 Defense authorization act, the White House on Tuesday called on Congress to again take up a proposal that President Obama offered last fall to cap contractor pay that is reimbursable by the government at $200,000. Lesley Field, acting administrator of ...
Lawmaker pushes to boost contractor work
January 31, 2012 House Small Business Committee Chairman Sam Graves, R-Mo., on Tuesday introduced legislation to encourage a higher percentage of federal contracts to go to small business, along with a separate bill to elevate agency Offices of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization. Graves’ GET Small Business Contracting Act would raise the small ...
Regular Regulatory Habits
January 31, 2012 Cass Sunstein, administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, has never been shy about showcasing the administration's regulatory accomplishments. On Monday, he went a step further, writing in a blog post that the effort, ordered by President Obama a year ago, to "look back at existing ...
Homeland security and economic growth are linked, Napolitano says
January 30, 2012 The Homeland Security Department is transforming its approach to security and trade, seeking the “sweet spot” between protecting people and “supporting the economic engine that makes America great,” DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano said Monday. In her second annual State of America’s Homeland Security address -- televised from the National Press ...
What Does BRAC Stand For?
January 30, 2012 Sharp-eyed followers of the current debate over defense cuts might notice an oddity in language. What is officially called the Defense Base Closure and Realignment process takes the acronym BRAC -- even officially -- which logically would stand for Base Realignment and Closure, reversing the priorities and, one guesses, making ...
