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Obama gets high marks for transparency push

Mar 11, 2010
WASHINGTON — At a time when the Obama administration is struggling to move forward with major policy initiatives affecting health care, energy and banking, it is getting high marks for progress in one area: government transparency.

Zients: Cut hiring time in half

The roughly five months it takes on average to hire a new employee should be cut in half — or more — the government's chief performance officer, Jeffrey Zients, said Wednesday. - Mar 11, 2010 (2)

168,000 DoD employees may transfer to new pay systems by September

The Defense Department hopes to move as many as 168,000 employees out of the National Security Personnel System and back to the General Schedule between May and September. - Mar 10, 2010

House OKs bill to repay furloughed DOT employees

The House today passed a bill that would allow the Transportation Department to reimburse 1,922 employees who were furloughed for two days last week. - Mar 10, 2010

Agencies finding it hard to follow through on open government order

The first steps were easy: Most agencies met the first deadline of President Obama's December directive to launch open government Web sites within 60 days. - Mar 10, 2010
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