The recent IRS scandal has raised the question about what it takes to fire a federal worker for inadequate performance.
• Leave a CommentHouse Energy and Commerce Committee leaders have expanded their examination into reports that Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius may have solicited funding or assistance from the health care industry to help implement the health care law.
• Leave a CommentAmerica’s population is graying, and the baby boomer generation is working later into life, partly to make up for financial losses.
• Leave a CommentThe circumstances of their deaths are different. But the same words-”loyal,” “honorable,” “selfless,” “smart” and “fearless”-surfaced again and again this week when family and friends remembered the American military service members close to them who sacrificed their lives for their country.
• Leave a CommentThe U.S. House of Representatives recently passed two bipartisan veterans bills: H.R. 570, the American Heroes COLA Act and H.R. 1412, the Improving Job Opportunities for Veterans Act of 2013.
• Leave a CommentThe Air Force and Army counted more than 1,409 contractors that performed inherently governmental work during fiscal 2011, which regulations dictate must be performed only by federal employees, according to a report from the Government Accountability Office.
• Leave a CommentPresident Obama is trying once again to get the Senate to sign off on his pick for top lawyer of the National Labor Relations Board.
• Leave a CommentIn the two weeks since the news surfaced that the Internal Revenue Service wrongly targeted conservative groups applying for a tax exemption, the debacle has unfolded at a breathless pace – complete with resignations, three congressional hearings and the transformation of civil servants into household names.
• Leave a CommentPolice arrested a man Thursday evening after Transportation Security Administration officers at the Salt Lake City International Airport found a loaded gun strapped to his prosthetic leg.
• Leave a CommentSenators Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-OK) and Mark Pryor (D-AR) have introduced a bill prohibiting the federal government from employing those with seriously delinquent tax debts.
• Leave a CommentThe author says that the government has embezzled all surplus Social Security revenue, generated by the 1983 payroll tax hike, and spent the money on wars and other government programs.
• Leave a CommentAnother few months have passed since the debt ceiling was raised and time for another raise in our debt. How will your retirement annuity payments and your G fund investments be impacted?
• Leave a CommentFurloughs for the U.S. Park Police forced by the budget cuts known as sequestration will end June 1, the National Park Service will announce Friday, because the agency was able to find other savings to offset them.
• Leave a CommentAbout 115,000 federal workers across four agencies are having to take an unpaid day off Friday, turning their Memorial Day weekend into a four-day mini-vacation.
• Leave a CommentPresident Obama on Thursday nominated former State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland to be the department’s top diplomat for Europe and Eurasia.
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