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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.
OPM links President’s Quality Award to Bush management agenda
February 15, 2002 Federal agencies hoping to snare the president's top prize for quality management must now meet criteria outlined in the Bush administration's management agenda, according to the Office of Personnel Management. Beginning with the 2002 applications for the President's Quality Award, participants must demonstrate results in the five categories included in ...
Applications for jobs as immigration inspectors pour in at record pace
February 13, 2002 Applications for immigration inspector positions have poured in at a record pace of about 8,000 a month since October, according to the Immigration and Naturalization Service. In the past four months, the INS has received more than 36,000 applications for jobs as immigration inspectors, said Sidney Waldstreicher, project manager for ...
Security problems continue to plague federal accounting system
February 12, 2002 The government has failed to correct long-standing computer security weaknesses in its central accounting system, continuing to put sensitive data and billions of dollars at risk, according to a new report from the General Accounting Office. The Treasury Department's Financial Management Service still needs to address nearly half of the ...
NASA managers not sharing lessons learned, report says
February 11, 2002 Inefficient technology and a reluctance to discuss past mistakes are keeping managers at NASA from sharing important lessons with one another, according to a new report from the General Accounting Office. Although NASA requires managers to regularly share important lessons learned from past projects through an agency-wide database, only 23 ...
FDIC to offer buyouts to 2,500 employees this spring
February 8, 2002 The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation will offer cash buyouts to about 2,500 employees beginning in April, an agency spokesman said Friday. FDIC, which insures deposits at the nation's 9,700-plus banks and savings associations, hopes to reduce its workforce from 6,200 to 5,500 by September 2002, said spokesman Phil Battey. If ...
Campaign to recruit feds kicks off this spring on college campuses
February 8, 2002 Uncle Sam and a nonprofit group are heading to college campuses this spring to promote public service. Students at participating schools will be able to learn more about job opportunities in the civil service from current and former federal employees, as part of a new initiative led by the Partnership ...
Lawmakers call on Bush to revoke ban on unions at Justice
February 7, 2002 A bipartisan group of lawmakers called on President Bush Wednesday to revoke an executive order excluding certain Justice Department offices from union representation. In a Feb. 6 letter, eight members of the House, including Reps. Steny Hoyer, D-Md., and Connie Morella, R-Md., expressed their "strong disagreement" with Bush's decision last ...
Indian tribes reject Interior’s trust fund reorganization plan
February 6, 2002 The Interior Department's proposal to create a new office overseeing the management of Indian trust funds will undermine tribal authority and will only add more bureaucratic layers to an already mismanaged program, Native American leaders said Wednesday at a House hearing. In November, Interior Secretary Gale Norton unveiled plans to ...
GSA’s proposed budget boosts e-government, building security
February 5, 2002 The Bush administration's fiscal 2003 budget proposal for the General Services Administration includes the largest requests to date for e-government initiatives, building repairs and increased security at federal facilities. GSA's proposed $18.9 billion budget for fiscal 2003 includes $45 million to finance interagency e-government projects, $986 million to repair and ...
TSP's C, S and I funds falter in January
February 4, 2002 The Thrift Savings Plan's C, S, and I funds all dropped in January, after gaining in December, according to the latest numbers from the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board. The C fund, which invests in common stocks, fell 1.47 percent last month, after a slight increase in December. The fund ...
