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.
Committee finds government's language skills lacking
September 15, 2000 The government needs more highly trained employees with top-notch foreign language skills to serve in the defense and intelligence communities, experts told a Senate Governmental Affairs subcommittee Thursday. Witnesses before the Subcommittee on International Security, Proliferation and Federal Services said the lack of teachers with skills in foreign languages has ...
Agencies see telecommuting savings, GSA says
September 14, 2000 klunney@govexec.com The concept of telecommuting, while still in its infancy, is already saving the government money, according to a new General Services Administration report. In the report, Wendell Joice, head of GSA's Governmentwide Telework and Workplace Initiative Team, traces the history of telecommuting, discussing its impact on disabled employees, the ...
Agency overpayments rise above $20 billion
September 13, 2000 klunney@govexec.com Twelve of the largest federal agencies reported making improper payments totaling $20.7 billion in fiscal 1999, according to a General Accounting Office report released Tuesday. Senate Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Fred Thompson, R-Tenn., held a press conference on Capitol Hill to present the report and announce legislation he plans ...
Panel seeks changes in IT pay, job structure
September 12, 2000 Revise, recruit and retain should continue to be the government's mantra when it comes to the federal information technology workforce, according to a report released last week by the Chief Information Officers Council. The report, released at the Interagency Resources Management Conference in Williamsburg, Va., advised agencies to focus on ...
Government Executive Magazine - 9/11/00 House panel debates what an "agency" is
September 11, 2000 klunney@govexec.com A House subcommittee debated the meaning of the term "agency" Friday-a key question in determining whether the 1974 Privacy Act applies to the Executive Office of the President. The Privacy Act, passed in the aftermath of Watergate, restricts the collection, use and disclosure of personal information by federal agencies. ...
Government Executive Magazine - 9/11/00 TSP's C Fund jumps in August
September 11, 2000 klunney@govexec.com The Thrift Savings Plan's C Fund-which invests in common stocks-rebounded in August, following a drop in July, according to the latest statistics from the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board. Following a July slump-the fifth time this year that the monthly rate has decreased-the C Fund jumped 6.19 percent in ...
Government Executive Magazine - 9/8/00 Legal Briefs: Reassignment retaliation
September 8, 2000 klunney@govexec.com Every Friday on GovExec.com, Legal Briefs reviews cases that involve, or provide valuable lessons to, federal managers. We report on the decisions of a wide range of review panels, including the Merit Systems Protection Board, the Federal Labor Relations Authority and federal courts. Two agents working for the Justice ...
Bush vows to modernize military, boost pay
September 8, 2000 GOP presidential candidate George W. Bush pledged yesterday to work with Congress, if elected, to increase pay for the military and improve housing on bases, according to an Associated Press report. Speaking before a Veterans of Foreign Wars gathering in Detroit, Mich., Bush called for a modern military ready to ...
Government Executive Magazine - 9/7/00 House panel seeks to unlock secrets of innovation
September 7, 2000 Winners of one of the country's most prestigious public service awards have involved stakeholders and used the latest technology to create programs that can be readily duplicated by other government organizations, several experts told a House panel Wednesday. Since 1986, the Innovations in American Government Awards, which are funded by ...
Government Executive Magazine - 9/6/00 More training means better results, OPM says
September 6, 2000 klunney@govexec.com Investing in workforce training can help agencies better accomplish their missions while addressing workforce planning issues, according to a new report from the Office of Personnel Management. OPM's "Guide to Strategically Planning Training and Measuring Results" comes at a time when agencies have completed the first cycle of 1993's ...
