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Lawmaker: Don't Furlough Weather Service Now
Making Government 'Simpler'
OK Senators Leery of Unfunded Tornado Relief
Boldly Go Where No Fed's Gone Before
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Eric Katz
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Eric Katz joined Government Executive in the summer of 2012 after graduating from The George Washington University, where he studied journalism and political science. He has written for his college newspaper and an online political news website and worked in a public affairs office for the Navy’s Military Sealift Command. Most recently, he worked for Financial Times, where he reported on national politics.
Bill Aims to Cure Rising Prescription Drug Costs
March 22, 2013 This story has been updated. Rep. Stephen Lynch, D-Mass., has proposed a bill to increase oversight and regulation of prescription drug costs for federal employee health beneficiaries. The Federal Employees Health Benefits Program Prescription Drug Integrity, Transparency and Cost Savings Act (H.R. 1367) would provide “the best benefits at the ...
GAO to USPS: You Still Have to Deliver Mail Six Days a Week
March 21, 2013 A requirement the U.S. Postal Service deliver mail six days a week still applies to the agency under current law, according to a Government Accountability Office decision. Argument to the contrary “rests upon a faulty USPS premise,” GAO said. What this decision will mean for the Postal Service’s plan to ...
Unlike Some Benefits, Sequester Is Here to Stay
March 21, 2013 Remember the days when everyone from House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, to Gov. Bob McDonnell, R-Va., called sequestration bad policy, and President Obama said it “will not happen”? Oh, how far we have come. The across-the-board spending cuts are already in effect, and federal employee furloughs are all but certain. ...
House Committee Approves a Pair of Bills Targeting Federal Tax Cheats
March 20, 2013 A House oversight committee passed two bills Wednesday targeting federal employees and contractors who are delinquent on their taxes, sending both pieces of legislation to the House floor for a full vote. The 2013 Federal Employee Tax Accountability Act would allow the government to fire federal employees who fail to ...
How Exactly Will Ending Saturday Mail Delivery Save Money?
March 19, 2013 Two lawmakers have condemned the U.S. Postal Service for failing to respond to a request for more details on a schedule change that would end Saturday mail delivery. USPS said it has already provided adequate information. On Jan. 31, Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., and Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., sent a ...
Senator Tells Feds to Keep Fighting for a Better 2014
March 18, 2013 Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., pleaded with federal employees Monday to continue defending public service, telling a group of U.S. Census workers it is a “fight worth fighting.” “Stand up for what you believe in,” Cardin said at the town hall meeting in suburban Maryland. “Don’t let them pick on the ...
GAO to Review White House Sequestration Approach
March 18, 2013 The Government Accountability Office will issue an agency-by-agency review of sequestration planning and implementation, according to Federal News Radio. Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., chairman of the House Budget Committee, requested the review in a letter to Comptroller General Gene Dodaro earlier this month. Ryan asked GAO to monitor the Obama ...
Lawmaker Proposes Bill to Return FERS Surplus to Postal Service
March 15, 2013 Rep. Stephen Lynch, D-Mass., has proposed a bill to return surplus pension funds to the U.S. Postal Service, saying the move will help the cash-strapped agency meet its financial obligations. The ranking member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on the Federal Workforce, U.S. Postal Service and the ...
African Americans Still Face Obstacles in Federal Workplace, Report Finds
March 15, 2013 African Americans still face discrimination and fewer opportunities in the federal workplace, according to a new report. An Equal Employment Opportunity Commission work group found unconscious biases, insufficient training and mentoring and outdated recruiting and hiring practices have stymied African Americans in federal government. In 2010, EEOC began asking various ...
Unions Bargain for Voluntary Furloughs
March 14, 2013 Federal employee unions are negotiating with agencies across government to allow workers to volunteer to take unpaid leave in the face of sequestration. “We’re getting emails and inquiries from employees who are interested in doing that,” Colleen M Kelley, the National Treasury Employees Union president told Government Executive, adding agencies ...
