No Furloughs at Customs and Border Protection
IRS Employees to Receive $70 Million in Bonuses
Uncharted Financial Waters at Defense
Postal Service Eyes Cuba
Should Leaders Ever Lie?
Unions: Efficiency Board Is 'Offensive,' 'Unwise'
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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.
Legal Briefs: Northern disclosure
June 9, 2000 ksaldarini@govexec.com, 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. Valerie Morman, a sales cashier ...
Rossotti outlines IRS reforms for contractors
June 8, 2000 klunney@govexec.com It will take the Internal Revenue Service more than a decade to fully modernize and reform its operations, IRS Commissioner Charles O. Rossotti told members of the Professional Services Council at a Tuesday luncheon. The Professional Services Council (PSC) is the national trade association representing for-profit professional and technical ...
Agencies struggle to comply with financial management act
June 7, 2000 klunney@govexec.com Federal agencies continue to have problems meeting the requirements of a 1996 law instructing them to get their finances in order. A House Government Reform subcommittee Tuesday heard testimony from agency chief financial officers and other financial leaders on the challenges agencies face in following the Federal Financial Management ...
Conservative leader calls for 50 percent government cut
June 6, 2000 klunney@govexec.com Despite all the federal downsizing of the past decade, conservatives should aim to cut the size of government at all levels in the United States by half in the next generation, argues a prominent right-wing thinker. Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, argues that reducing the size ...
House bill would offer early outs to Air Force civilians
June 2, 2000 klunney@govexec.com As many as 1,000 civilian Air Force employees could be offered early retirement under a three-year pilot program included in a recently passed House bill. Sponsored by Reps. Tony P. Hall, D-Ohio, and Dave Hobson, R-Ohio, the bipartisan legislation was included as an amendment to the Defense Department authorization ...
Legal Briefs: Handcuff harassment
June 2, 2000 ksaldarini@govexec.com, 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. Burnis Tate, an African American ...
Feds on the rise honored with Flemming Awards
June 1, 2000 klunney@govexec.com This year's 12 recipients of the Arthur S. Flemming awards for achievement in public service are up-and-coming innovators, visionaries, leaders and entrepreneurs from across the spectrum of government-bound together by a passionate commitment to making people's lives better. The awards are named in honor of one of the premier ...
Delay in IT accessibility standards expected
May 30, 2000 klunney@govexec.com A Senate amendment tacked onto a military appropriations bill may give agencies more time to provide assistive technology for federal employees with disabilities. Sen. James Jeffords, R-Vt., added the amendment to H.R. 4425, and acceptance by a House-Senate conference committee is expected. The current deadline for compliance is August, ...
Paid parental leave bill introduced in House
May 26, 2000 klunney@govexec.com Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., introduced legislation Thursday to give federal parents six weeks of paid maternity or paternity leave. "We are here today in support of families," said Maloney, who co-chairs the Congressional Women's Caucus. "Everyone talks about supporting families, but when you look at the policies, they are ...
Legal Briefs: Firing foulup
May 26, 2000 ksaldarini@govexec.com, 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. Joseph Perfetto, a safety technician ...
