TSP's G Fund Helps Delay Debt Ceiling
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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.
HUD inspector general files complaint against Cuomo
October 19, 2000 Department of Housing and Urban Development Inspector General Susan Gaffney has filed a sexual discrimination complaint against Secretary Andrew Cuomo and other HUD officials, claiming that she has been subjected to a hostile work environment at the agency for the last three years. In an Oct. 13 memorandum addressed to ...
DoD bill heads to Clinton with benefits changes
October 17, 2000 klunney@govexec.com A provision reducing the maximum out-of-pocket health care expenses by 60 percent for all military retirees is included in the fiscal 2001 Defense authorization bill (H.R. 4205). The Senate passed the bill last Thursday. The bill now goes to President Clinton for his signature. The House passed its conference ...
Agencies still struggling to get finances in order
October 17, 2000 klunney@govexec.com Most agencies failed to get their finances in order for fiscal 1999, according to a General Accounting Office report. Of the 24 agencies covered under the Chief Financial Officers Act, only the Energy Department, NASA and the National Science Foundation complied with the financial requirements of the 1996 Federal ...
HUD, EPA programs win top public service awards
October 13, 2000 klunney@govexec.com Federal programs administered by the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Environmental Protection Agency walked away with top honors Thursday at the Innovations in American Government Awards in Washington. A public housing program creating mixed-income communities and an economic redevelopment initiative that cleans up abandoned properties were ...
Congress balks at prison plan to clothe military
October 10, 2000 klunney@govexec.com A Justice Department program that employs federal prison inmates to produce goods for sale to federal agencies came under fire at a House subcommittee hearing last week for looking at the possibility of expanding its military clothing sales. Federal Prison Industries (FPI), a division of the Bureau of Prisons ...
Task force calls for more computer-based training
October 6, 2000 klunney@govexec.com Agencies need to use technology to help employees acquire new job skills, according to an interagency task force report released this week. The President's Task Force on Federal Training Technology released its report earlier this week on using technology in federal agencies to train employees. The task force, made ...
Navy to award intranet contract Friday
October 6, 2000 klunney@govexec.com The Navy will award its multibillion dollar intranet contract today at 5 p.m., Eastern Standard Time (EST). Navy Secretary Richard J. Danzig and department officials will give an overview of the Navy/Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI) this afternoon at 12:45 at a Pentagon press briefing. In accordance with Defense Department ...
EPA officials deny discrimination
October 5, 2000 klunney@govexec.com Officials from the Environmental Protection Agency vigorously defended their agency's commitment to diversity yesterday during a House hearing that focused on allegations of widespread discrimination and retaliation. The House Science Committee heard testimony from a black senior manager at EPA who won a $600,000 verdict in a race and ...
Union calls FAIR Act lists a waste of time
October 4, 2000 klunney@govexec.com The largest federal employee union yesterday called for a fair playing field when it comes to competing with industry for jobs. The Office of Management and Budget released the first round of Federal Activities Inventory Reform (FAIR) Act inventories last Friday, listing more than 194,000 federal jobs that may ...
Senate passes bill to improve transitions
October 4, 2000 klunney@govexec.com A bill designed to help prepare newly elected Presidents and their appointees for service in the executive branch passed the Senate unanimously last week. The Presidential Transition Act of 2000 provides briefings and orientation for political appointees, creates a "transitions" directory with important agency and administrative information, and requires ...
