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  1. Pension costs understated

  1. Enough bureaucracy already

    First, let me say these are my views only, not my employer's.

  2. Public service: an opportunity, not a burden

    I entered public service under unorthodox circumstances, after a tragedy hit in my hometown of Mount Pleasant, Iowa.

  1. Sequester poses public service challenges

  2. Contracting professionals need to travel — and train Apr. 28, 2013

  3. Cost restructuring can help agencies meet budget challenges Apr. 28, 2013

  4. Letters to the Editor: April 29 Apr. 28, 2013

  5. Editorial: Congress must help ensure a responsible drawdown Apr. 28, 2013

  6. DoD furloughs: A bad idea at a bad time Apr. 14, 2013

  7. A better way to pay Apr. 14, 2013

  8. Editorial: On wasteful spending, Congress is the problem Apr. 14, 2013

  9. Letters to the Editor: April 15, 2013 Apr. 14, 2013

  10. Accident spotlights need for contract rule changes Mar. 31, 2013

  11. How to narrow the cyber talent gap Mar. 31, 2013

  12. Editorial: Cancel plan to post personal financial forms Mar. 31, 2013

Sequester news
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  1. A new House plan proposes increasing defense spending next year and imposing severe cuts upon many non-Defense Department agencies. AFP via Getty Images

    House committee plans deep 2014 spending cuts

    • May. 24, 2013

    A new House Appropriations Committee plan proposes increasing defense spending next year by 5 percent and imposing severe cuts upon many non-Defense …

  1. Sequester doesn't add up for IGs
  2. FBI's Mueller expects furloughs next year
  3. Courts seek $73M in emergency funding
  4. DoD halts shifting war money into base budget

Blogs

  1. DHS says Spires’ departure not linked to CIO authority issues
  2. Werfel missed at Senate hearing
  3. Attention, Combined Federal Campaign charities, PCFOs, participating employees (and anyone else involved in the CFC)
  4. Chief performance officer’s job now vacant; Senate proceeding with Deese nomination
  5. Amazon gets federal cloud certification
  6. Agencies challenged to balance data sharing and security, experts say

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Ask the Experts

  1. Furlough and term employees and re-employed annuitants
  2. Medicare Part B
  3. Military buyback and creditable service
  1. How to be a good pension fund manager
  2. Timing the market
  3. Furlough and TSP hardship withdrawal
  1. How to qualify for the Senior Executive Service
  2. Maximize your time as a Presidential Management Fellow
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  1. Q & A Session – Notification of EEOC Complaint
  2. Q & A Session – Stealing Confidential Documents
  3. Q & A Session – Hatch Act

Pay & Benefits
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  1. 5% of federal workforce furloughed Friday as agencies shut down

    The IRS, Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Management and Budget, and the Housing and Urban Development Department — which have a combined staff of about 116,600 — closed down entirely May 24 to help meet their mandated budget cuts. Above is the IRS headquarters in Washington. Mark Wilson / Getty Images
    • May. 24, 2013

    Roughly 117,000 federal employees are on leave without pay Friday in the first major round of sequester-driven furloughs.

  1. More feds investing in TSP's L Funds
  2. DNI Clapper: No furloughs for civilian intel workers
  3. Report: Recruit more science and tech talent
  4. DoD employees to get 11 furlough days
  1. More Pay & Benefits
  2. Federal Pay and Performance, Federal Retirement Benefits, Federal Health Care

Departments
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  1. Appeals court considers appeal rights for 'sensitive' jobs

    • May. 24, 2013

    A federal appellate court heard oral arguments Friday in a case that tests the balance between national security safeguards and civil service …

  1. House committee plans deep 2014 spending cuts
  2. GSA awards governmentwide mobile contract
  3. IG hits back at Afghan criticism on contractor taxes
  4. Pentagon goes it alone on electronic health records
  1. More Departments:
  2. Defense, Postal Service, Homeland Security, OMB

Agency News
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  1. 5% of federal workforce furloughed Friday as agencies shut down

    The IRS, Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Management and Budget, and the Housing and Urban Development Department — which have a combined staff of about 116,600 — closed down entirely May 24 to help meet their mandated budget cuts. Above is the IRS headquarters in Washington. Mark Wilson / Getty Images
    • May. 24, 2013

    Roughly 117,000 federal employees are on leave without pay Friday in the first major round of sequester-driven furloughs.

  1. Obama announces pick for new OPM director
  2. IG hits back at Afghan criticism on contractor taxes
  3. Obama taps Tangherlini to be permanent GSA chief
  4. Agencies respond to tornado under shadow of sequester
  1. More Agency News:
  2. Federal Budget, Leaders & Agencies, Program Management, White House

Personnel
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  1. Appeals court considers appeal rights for 'sensitive' jobs

    • May. 24, 2013

    A federal appellate court heard oral arguments Friday in a case that tests the balance between national security safeguards and civil service …

  1. Obama announces pick for new OPM director
  2. Justice Department launches criminal probe at IRS
  3. Obama orders gender pay gap study
  4. IG frustrated by OPM's handling of improper payments to dead retirees
  1. More Personnel:
  2. OPM, Recruiting & Retention, Labor Management Relations, Insourcing/Outsourcing

Congress
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  1. A new House plan proposes increasing defense spending next year and imposing severe cuts upon many non-Defense Department agencies. AFP via Getty Images

    House committee plans deep 2014 spending cuts

    • May. 24, 2013

    A new House Appropriations Committee plan proposes increasing defense spending next year by 5 percent and imposing severe cuts upon many non-Defense …

  1. Agencies respond to tornado under shadow of sequester
  2. Former IRS head says he didn't know of Tea Party affair
  3. IRS acting commissioner resigns in wake of scandal
  4. Justice Department launches criminal probe at IRS
  1. More Congress:
  2. House, Senate, Federal Appropriations, Bill Tracker, GAO
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