The Vast Majority of IRS Employees Aren't Corrupt
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EIG 2013 as Told by Your Tweets
Infographic: Nominee Limbo
Will You Be Furloughed?
Boldly Go Where No Fed's Gone Before
AUTHOR ARCHIVES
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.
Caught Off Guard
September 1, 2011 FPS is slow in applying technology to protect government buildings. The Federal Protective Service has made visible but limited progress in improving its risk management program-which addresses threats to agency buildings-and in the transfer of its programs to new authorities within the Homeland Security Department. At least that's the view ...
Pentagon Suffering From Civilian 'Bloat'?
August 31, 2011 The Defense Department's civilian workforce, which currently numbers around 750,000, is an example of the "bureaucratic bloat" the government has undergone in defense and intelligence since the 9/11 attacks, former Navy Secretary John Lehman said on Wednesday at a panel discussion by former members of the 9/11 Commission. When the ...
9/11 Commission alumni blast failure to enact ‘no-brainers’
August 31, 2011 Ten years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the government still has not assured communications interoperability among first responders, or determined whether police or firefighters are the default authorities during a sudden disaster, according to reunited members of the 9/11 Commission who spoke on a panel Wednesday. "These ideas were no-brainers ...
FEMA and the Federal Family
August 30, 2011 Perhaps just a coincidence, but the Federal Emergency Management Agency picked the sixth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina's landfall -- perhaps the low point in FEMA's controversial history -- to publish on Monday an impressive time line of actions by the entire "federal family" in response to Hurricane Irene. A bonanza ...
Expansion of Bethesda Naval Delayed
August 30, 2011 Just as patients were arriving from the closing Walter Reed Army Medical Center, planners at the National Naval Medical Center learned to their frustration of delays in the planned building expansion due an over-burdened power grid, the Washington Examiner reported on Tuesday. The local power station in Bethesda, Md., cannot ...
Obama gives House speaker cost estimates for seven regulations
August 30, 2011 Acceding to a demand issued last week by House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, President Obama on Tuesday sent the Republican leader cost estimates for seven pending regulations, though he challenged the assumptions behind the request. On Aug. 26, Boehner sent Obama a letter asking for cost estimates, by Labor Day, ...
Fight brewing over replenishing FEMA’s emergency funds after Hurricane Irene
August 30, 2011 With estimated damage from Hurricane Irene topping $7 billion, the White House and some in Congress are at odds over where to find money to replenish the disaster relief fund of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which has dipped below the $1 billion level considered advisable. On Sunday, FEMA stirred ...
Government’s post-9/11 reorganization called ‘worth the effort’
August 29, 2011 The famously chaotic creation of the Homeland Security Department that began in 2003 was "well-worth the effort," but "the merger initially resulted in mission overlaps and policy shortfalls, confused functional and operational roles and responsibilities, dissatisfied citizens and employees, intense political pressures, and public scrutiny," according to new analysis. The ...
Pentagon contracting policy faulted in two reports
August 29, 2011 Defense Department contractors in war zones wasted more than $30 billion during the past decade through poor planning and management, the chairs of the Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan said on Monday in an op-ed previewing a report due out this week. During those same 10 years, ...
White House, Boehner face off on cost of regulations
August 26, 2011 House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, on Friday asked the White House for cost estimates on all pending regulations likely to have a price tag of more than $1 billion. The letter, which also claimed the volume of regulations is increasing, prompted a quick rebuttal from the Obama administration. "This year, ...
