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.
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
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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
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
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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