TSP's G Fund Helps Delay Debt Ceiling
Sequester Hits Disaster Relief
Feds Respond to Oklahoma Tornadoes
Making Government 'Simpler'
OK Senator Wants Aid Offset by Budget Cuts
Boldly Go Where No Fed's Gone Before
AUTHOR ARCHIVES
Lawmakers renew fight for military-civilian pay parity
January 25, 2005 Ten House members from the Washington metropolitan area wrote to President Bush Tuesday urging him to include equivalent raises for military and civil service employees when he releases his 2006 budget proposal next month. The group includes two Republicans, Tom Davis and Frank Wolf of Virginia, and eight Democrats: Steny ...
White House set to propose lean budget
January 18, 2005 The fiscal 2006 federal budget President Bush will formally propose next month is likely to be the most austere in years, and will recommend eliminating funding for poor-performing programs, according to Bush administration officials. Bush has promised to halve the deficit by 2009. "We'll send a tough budget up, that ...
New rules aim at easing hiring of people with disabilities
January 11, 2005 The Office of Personnel Management on Tuesday published new rules that will make it easier for federal agencies to hire people with disabilities. The new rules, which update regulations stemming from a 1979 executive order, will allow agencies to hire nonveterans with a physical or mental handicap into the excepted ...
OPM director tenders resignation
January 10, 2005 Office of Personnel Management Director Kay Coles James, who helped to oversee the most substantive changes in civil service rules in 25 years during a three-and-a-half-year tenure, says she will resign her position at the end of January. "I leave with a far deeper understanding and appreciation for those who ...
More agencies gain certification to raise SES pay
January 7, 2005 The Housing and Urban Development Department, National Science Foundation, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and Patent and Trademark Office are the latest agencies to receive certification for their performance evaluation systems for senior executives. They now can raise executive salaries to nearly $160,000 a year. The agencies received provisional certification, which will ...
Agencies will help shoulder cost of new embassy construction
January 3, 2005 Federal agencies that send workers overseas to U.S. embassies will have to pony up to help pay for new embassy construction under a provision signed by President Bush last month. The $388 billion spending bill, which provides funding authority for most government agencies outside of the Homeland Security and Defense ...
Training Games
January 1, 2005 The virtual world offers a low-cost, no-impact learning environment for soldiers, first responders and, increasingly, other employees. The drill instructor kept saying it over and over again. If I didn't finish soon, he'd be old enough to retire. It grated on me. So I turned around, trained my M-249 squad ...
The Harbinger
January 1, 2005 The author of a citizen safety guide says the Homeland Security Department has tipped its hand to terrorists. Never comment on rumors. That's the first lesson any public affairs officer worth his salt will tell you, whether you're a politician, businessperson or government official. And that's why Juval Aviv found ...
E-king Out the Rules
January 1, 2005 Oscar Morales leads the online effort to simplify and amplify citizens' input on proposed regulations. The sometimes arcane world of federal rule-making is about to get a lot more accessible. The Office of Management and Budget is working with an interagency project office to launch the new and improved Regulations.gov ...
Use of “official time” for union activities drops
December 22, 2004 The amount of time that federal employees spent on union activities during their work days declined by 4 percent in 2003, according to a new report by the Office of Personnel Management. The cost of the "official time" rose by 1.6 percent from the previous year, but that fell within ...
