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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.
Senators vow to continue work of expiring wartime contracting panel
September 22, 2011 Harry Truman "would be shocked," Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., told a Senate panel Wednesday during the final hearing on the expiring Wartime Contracting Commission that was modeled on World War II anti-corruption investigations led by the 33rd president. Nearly one-third of the $206 billion that the United States has spent ...
Plan to further restrict contact with lobbyists draws criticism
September 21, 2011 Lobbyists and good government groups are finding fault with a proposed rule that would widen restrictions on the freedom of millions of federal employees to accept small gifts and to attend events with registered lobbyists. The proposed new standards by the Office of Government Ethics, published in the Federal Register ...
Intelligence agencies lauded for progress toward balanced use of contractors
September 20, 2011 The nation's 16 federal intelligence agencies together make a "model of sensitivity" on the importance of rebalancing what many see as the past decade's overreliance on outside contractors to perform inherently governmental work, the Obama administration's top procurement policy official told a Senate panel during a hearing Tuesday. But contractors ...
Shovel-Ready Agency Funds
September 19, 2011 Rolled into the Obama administration's jobs and deficit-cutting blitz is an effort to boost the economy by accelerating agency spending of quickly depleting stimulus money. In a little-noticed memo to agencies on Thursday, Office of Management and Budget Director Jack Lew called on agencies to speed their discretionary grant money ...
Obama jobs and deficit proposal targets contractor executive pay
September 19, 2011 President Obama's economic growth and deficit reduction plan released Monday includes a long-awaited provision that would lower the cap on the maximum executive compensation reimbursable to federal contractors. A report accompanying the Obama administration's proposed jobs legislation, which spells out plans to save $3 trillion over 10 years, recommends an ...
Alumni Loyalty to the SEC
September 16, 2011 Interesting turn of events with Harvey Pitt, the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission under the George W. Bush administration who resigned under fire. The longtime attorney for the financial industry at a hearing on Thursday came out against plans by Republicans on the House Financial Services Committee to ...
Pentagon financial officers report modest progress toward clean books
September 16, 2011 The Defense Department's top team of financial managers on Thursday reported progress toward meeting the congressionally set goal of reforming the Pentagon's systems to be fully auditable by 2017, but they acknowledged many obstacles still must be overcome. "Since the mid-1990s, federal agencies have been required to produce auditable financial ...
Four departments resist call to comply with Small Business Act
September 16, 2011 Conflicting interpretations of agency internal reporting requirements in the Small Business Act have prompted a stalemate between four departments and congressional overseers examining the performance of programs designed to assure that small businesses get a fair share of federal contracting. The Government Accountability Office in a report had found that ...
No big budget deal before 2012 election, says former comptroller general
September 14, 2011 Addressing the nation's budget crisis requires a "grand bargain" -- even double the $1.5 trillion Congress aims to save by Thanksgiving -- and such a deal is politically unlikely until after the 2012 elections, former Comptroller General David Walker said on Wednesday. "We've got to present the American people with ...
Biden tells Cabinet of agency progress in curbing waste
September 14, 2011 Vice President Joe Biden for the first time was briefing a Cabinet meeting on specific agency progress in the administration's Campaign to Cut Waste, according to senior White House and agency officials. The efficiencies Biden was announcing Wednesday come after a "steady drumbeat" of agency reports of new steps to ...
