TSP's G Fund Helps Delay Debt Ceiling
CBP Could Escape Furloughs
Feds Flock to TSP's L Funds
EIG 2013 as Told by Your Tweets
Boldly Go Where No Fed's Gone Before
The Big Squeeze: Defense Under Sequester
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Kellie Lunney
Senior Correspondent
Kellie Lunney covers federal pay and benefits issues, the budget process and financial management. After starting her career in journalism at Government Executive in 2000, she returned in 2008 after four years at sister publication National Journal writing profiles of influential Washingtonians. In 2006, she received a fellowship at the Ohio State University through the Kiplinger Public Affairs in Journalism program, where she worked on a project that looked at rebuilding affordable housing in Mississippi after Hurricane Katrina. She has appeared on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal, NPR and Feature Story News, where she participated in a weekly radio roundtable on the 2008 presidential campaign. In the late 1990s, she worked at the Housing and Urban Development Department as a career employee. She is a graduate of Colgate University.
GAO to study accommodations for voters with disabilities
November 7, 2000 This Election Day, the General Accounting Office will be visiting several counties across the country to see how well polling places accommodate voters with disabilities. Sens. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, and John McCain, R-Ariz., asked the GAO to conduct a nationwide study Nov. 7 to determine how well states are complying ...
President vetoes intelligence bill
November 7, 2000 President Clinton vetoed a bill Saturday that would have made leaking classified information a felony, saying the criminal provision threatened the public's right to freedom of information. The Intelligence Authorization Act for fiscal year 2001 (H.R. 4392) contained a provision that made the improper disclosure of government secrets a felony, ...
VA Web site lets veterans file for benefits online
November 6, 2000 The Veterans Affairs Department has launched a new Web site that enables veterans to file online for pension and health care benefits. Unveiled last Friday, the Veterans Online Applications site lets veterans apply for disability compensation, pension and vocational rehabilitation benefits electronically. The site is designed to cut down on ...
Clinton signs bill giving vets more benefits
November 3, 2000 Veterans will get more educational help and disability pay under a bill signed into law Wednesday by President Clinton. The 2000 Veterans Benefits and Health Care Improvement Act, S. 1402, increases education benefits under the Montgomery GI Bill to $650 a month for three years of service, a $122 increase, ...
House passes bill aiding federal doctors' pay
November 3, 2000 The House passed legislation Wednesday that extends a provision of a bill that will help agencies recruit and keep more federal physicians. H.R. 207, sponsored by Rep. Connie A. Morella, R-Md., permanently extends the Physicians Comparability Allowance (PCA) for federal civilian physicians, eliminating the need to reauthorize the language every ...
HUD, union reach agreement on hiring effort
November 2, 2000 The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) and the Housing and Urban Development Department reached an agreement Tuesday on the agency's plan to fill 945 job slots over the next several months. HUD's Project Hire is designed to raise staffing to a level deemed necessary to carry out its mission. ...
Best Feds on the Web winners announced
November 2, 2000 The votes have been cast and the results are in for GovExec.com's fourth annual Best Feds on the Web competition. After sifting through dozens of nominations, the judges picked 10 sites deemed worthy of the title Best Feds. The winners hail from a variety of agencies and cover a range ...
Agencies receive lackluster grades on performance reports
November 2, 2000 Most agencies' fiscal 1999 performance reports fail to explain how well they are accomplishing their missions, according to a new round of grades released by Sen. Fred Thompson, R-Tenn. Agencies' reports were graded on how well they explained and delivered on their performance results, progress made in solving major management ...
Meet the New Boss
November 1, 2000 t's been eight years since the last change in presidential administrations, so career executives and managers across government are brushing up on their transition skills. Pre-transition jitters are common for both career executives and political appointees, but those who have been through the process say most of the time both ...
HUD under fire for drafting plan to hire 900 new employees
November 1, 2000 Members of Congress and a labor union representing employees at the Department of Housing and Urban Development have criticized a HUD plan to hire approximately 900 new workers over the next several months, filling slots that open through normal attrition. HUD officials say the initiative, known as Project Hire, is ...
