The Vast Majority of IRS Employees Aren't Corrupt
GSA Mishandled Executive Bonuses
EIG 2013 as Told by Your Tweets
Infographic: Nominee Limbo
Will You Be Furloughed?
Boldly Go Where No Fed's Gone Before
AUTHOR ARCHIVES
Eric Katz
Editorial Fellow
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.
IRS Sees Spike in Feds Who Owe Uncle Sam
March 11, 2013 This story has been updated. Nearly 312,000 federal workers and retirees owed more than $3.5 billion in back taxes in 2011, according to The Associated Press. The number of tax delinquent feds marks a 12 percent jump from 2010, when 279,000 employees owed $3.4 billion. Feds have a delinquency rate ...
Some Lawmakers Gave Staff Bonuses as Fiscal Cliff Loomed
March 11, 2013 Nearly a quarter of House lawmakers gave bonuses to their staff in the months leading up to expected tax hikes and spending cuts dubbed the fiscal cliff, according to a CNN report. Representatives from both parties defended the late 2012 bonuses as a reward for good work and an incentive ...
USDA Doesn’t Pay for the Wine-Tasting Anyway
March 8, 2013 The Agriculture Department does not fund or host either of two conferences a Republican lawmaker highlighted as an example of potential agency savings to avoid employee furloughs, USDA officials have said. Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., in the most recent in a string of letters sent to the Obama administration regarding ...
Lawmakers Propose Lower Cap on USPS Executive Pay
March 7, 2013 A bipartisan coalition of lawmakers has proposed a bill to lower the maximum compensation for U.S. Postal Service executives. Rep. Morgan Griffith, R-Va., authored the bill, which would reduce maximum pay to level II of the Executive Schedule, or $178,700. Currently, the maximum salary for Postal Service employees is level ...
Continuing Resolution Muddies USPS Plan to End Saturday Delivery
March 7, 2013 The House has included a provision in the continuing resolution to fund government for the remainder of fiscal 2013 to mandate six-day mail delivery, posing a possible snag in the U.S. Postal Service’s plan to eliminate Saturday letter delivery. The continuing resolution, which the House passed Wednesday, made reference to ...
Senator to USDA: Cancel Wine Tastings Before Furloughing Food Inspectors
March 5, 2013 Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., has called for the Agriculture Department to cut conference spending to avoid employee furloughs, the latest in a series of suggestions stemming from the lawmaker’s ongoing effort to “prioritize” sequestration cuts. Coburn pointed to two conferences in particular -- the California Small Farm Conference and the ...
House GOP Spending Plan Continues Sequester, Federal Pay Freeze
March 4, 2013 A Republican lawmaker has included an extension to the federal pay freeze in a proposal to fund government and avoid a shutdown after March 27, when the current appropriations agreement runs out. House Appropriations Committee Chairman Rep. Hal Rogers, R-Ky., maintained sequestration-level spending in the bill to fund government through ...
Sequestration May Add to the Postal Service’s Financial Troubles
March 4, 2013 U.S. Postal Service officials expressed concern over the effects sequestration will have on business, despite being exempt from the $85 billion in cuts, The Hill reported. USPS is not directly affected by sequestration cuts because it does not receive taxpayer funds, instead relying on its own sales for funding. But, ...
An Actual Sequestration Furlough Notice
March 1, 2013 A formal sequestration furlough notice sent by the Justice Department ahead of across-the-board budgets cuts was posted online by a lawmaker on Friday. “We recognizethe difficult personal financial implications" of forced unpaid leave, Justice told assistant U.S. attorneys in the Feb. 20 notice. “This furlough is necessitated by the Budget ...
Bill Would Cut Fed Workforce by 10 Percent in Three Years
March 1, 2013 A Republican lawmaker has proposed a bill to cut the federal workforce by ten percent in three years, claiming the move would save $35 billion over five years. The Federal Workforce Reduction Through Attrition Act proposes to limit new hires to one employee for every three that retire or leave. ...
