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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.
Bush seeks to split INS into two agencies
June 27, 2000 klunney@govexec.com Republican presidential contender George W. Bush proposed to split the Immigration and Naturalization Service into two agencies in a speech Monday, according to an Associated Press report. Addressing the League of United Latin American Citizens, Bush said the the two missions of the INS-enforcing the border and welcoming new ...
Legal Briefs: Court TV
June 23, 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. When Navy employee Ray Perez found ...
Military urged to overhaul health care system
June 23, 2000 klunney@govexec.com Witnesses criticized the slow and costly claims processing system of Tricare, the Defense Department's managed health care system, at a hearing Thursday before a House Budget Committee task force. Panelists who appeared before the Budget Committee's Task Force on Defense and International Relations said increasing the use of electronic ...
IRS shows improvement in tax processing efforts
June 21, 2000 klunney@govexec.com The IRS' tax processing systems performed slightly better during the 2000 filing season than in 1999, according to a new report from the General Accounting Office. Two major information systems that help frontline IRS employees fix errors in tax returns were reliable almost 100 percent of the time-up half ...
Pentagon official named federal procurement chief
June 21, 2000 klunney@govexec.com A Pentagon procurement expert has been selected to serve as the new top dog in government contracting. Dr. Kenneth J. Oscar, deputy assistant secretary of procurement for the Army since June 1995, has been chosen to replace Deidre A. Lee, former administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy ...
New SES performance measures issued
June 21, 2000 klunney@govexec.com The Office of Personnel Management plans to issue draft regulations Wednesday to allow federal employees to participate in performance evaluations for senior executives. The regulations would establish three primary criteria for rating executives: employee satisfaction, customer satisfaction and business results. Business results are defined as goals in agencies' long-term ...
OPM seeks to expand student loan repayment benefit
June 20, 2000 klunney@govexec.com The Office of Personnel Management has submitted a legislative proposal to Congress that would allow more federal employees to take advantage of student loan repayment benefits. Under section 5379 of U.S. Code Title 5, agencies can repay employee student loans to "recruit or retain highly qualified professional, technical or ...
Whistleblower agency issues policy on adverse actions
June 19, 2000 klunney@govexec.com A rapid increase in the number of federal employees seeking to prevent agencies from implementing adverse personnel actions against them has led the Office of Special Counsel to publish a policy on handling such requests. Under federal law, OSC can file requests to the Merit Systems Protection Board for ...
NFFE beats AFGE in battle to represent Defense workers
June 19, 2000 klunney@govexec.com The National Federation of Federal Employees has won a small battle in the ongoing turf war between federal unions to represent agency employees. Defense Logistics Agency employees in Letterkenny, Pa. recently chose NFFE to represent them, instead of the American Federation of Government Employees. AFGE and NFFE have a ...
Legal Briefs: Demonstrating discrimination
June 16, 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. A Supreme Court decision this week ...
