- Lisa Rein
- Reporter
Lisa Rein covers the federal workforce and issues that concern the management of government. At the Post, she has written about state politics and government in Annapolis, Md. and Richmond, Va., local government in Fairfax County, Va. and the redevelopment of Washington and its neighborhoods.
She was previously a reporter for the New York Daily News, where she covered former Mayor Rudy Giuliani and the city’s colorful taxi industry. Before crossing the Hudson River, she chronicled Asian immigration to Northern New Jersey for The Record of Hackensack. Lisa started her daily newspaper career at The Patriot-Ledger in Quincy, Ma., where one of the biggest scandals of the late 1980s was the gold spray-painting by vandals of Plymouth Rock. She grew up in Boston and graduated from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut.
- GSA awards for executives are excessive, inspector finds
- At Cincinnati IRS office, surprise over claims of partisan villainy
- Watchdog says awards for GSA executives were excessive; system lacked transparency
- Memorial Day parade loses sponsors; organizers say it will go forward anyway
- Memorial Day parade loses sponsors; organizers cite federal budget cuts
- FAA reviewing lost pay for furloughed employees
- IRS employees to protest furloughs in New York
- Sequester takes its toll on Mall, park police and Smithsonian museums
- Congress sends Obama bill to end airport delays
- Women’s health groups want Peace Corps volunteers to have insurance coverage for abortions
- Holder says no furloughs at Justice Department this fiscal year
- EPA employees hit with up to 10 furlough days; less than anticipated
- Congressional leaders press for end to furloughs
- Federal personnel agency steered contracts to favored company, watchdog says
- IG report: Federal personnel officials steered contracts to favored company
- Senators press budget office nominee on meeting deadlines
- Postal Service bows to pressure, won’t end Saturday delivery
- Sequester means 11 percent cut in unemployment benefits
- FAA to delay closure of airport towers due to legal challenges
- Obama to take pay cut to draw attention to plight of federal workers facing furloughs
- HUD officials, others follow President Obama in giving up portion of salaries
- Federal worker employs Peeps to portray upcoming furloughs
- Beef with the sequester? At least one federal program was able to beat it.
- For federal workforce, the furlough terrain is uneven
- HUD to close down for a week to save money
- Defense Department reduces furlough days to 14
- HUD to close agency during furlough days
- House approves resolution to keep government running; bill heads to White House
- Defense Department to delay furlough notices
- Measure approved to keep government open extends pay freeze for feds
- At Yellowstone, locals step in to get park open and help solve budget woes
- Furloughs for federal workers still likely in new stopgap budget
- GSA ordered to give job back to executive fired after Las Vegas conference scandal
- National Archives to reduce hours to cover sequester cuts
- Yellowstone gets real about budget cuts
- Furloughs in personnel-heavy agencies could affect public services
- 'It could be a crazy day, or it could be a wait-and-see day,' federal manager says
- GOP lawmakers question necessity of FAA furloughs
- As furloughs loom, unions try to soften sequester blow for federal workers
- Military service chiefs warn budget cuts will undermine readiness
- New details emerge of potential sequester cuts to national parks
- National park advocates pressing Congress to prevent deep budget cuts
- Kerry says State Department cuts under sequester would impair vital foreign missions
- Climate change could burn a hole in the government’s finances, GAO says
- Postmaster general asks lawmakers not to block five-day delivery
- U.S. Postal Service to end Saturday delivery
- Weather Service moves to fire official who criticized budget cuts in Post interview
- National Weather Service fires official four days after Washington Post quoted him
- Planning for sequester: Tell us what your agency is doing
- Auditors: Defense Department slow to develop sexual-assault policies
- Auditors: Defense Department slow to develop sexual-assault policies
- White House: Automatic cuts 'not supported by virtually anyone in Washington'
- Threat of automatic cuts costly to federal agencies
- Reforming IT is priority for congressional committee
- The inaugural speech and the role of government
- Air Force begins precautionary cost-cutting measures
- OPM Chief John Berry: The next interior secretary?
- AFGE union wants contractors to sacrifice before federal workers
- Budget chief to agencies: Prepare for across-the-board spending cuts
- Defense told to delay contracts, prepare for furloughs amid budget uncertainty
- Naming post offices a priority for Congress as legislation to help postal service failed
- Federal workers: Does the threat of sequester cost agencies money?
- Think tank to study privatizing most Postal Service operations
- Federal agencies bracing for cuts after ‘fiscal cliff’ deal
- Civil servants put on paid administrative leave can get stuck in an ill-defined limbo
- Top 10 stories in the federal workforce in 2012
- Federal workers feel unease over potential layoffs, furloughs unleashed by ‘fiscal cliff’
- Postal workers stage second hunger strike as House-Senate talks on legislation continue
- Flex schedules for feds? Think again.
- Study: Budget uncertainty has a cost -- more spending
- Federal unions: Sacrifices for deficit reduction took toll in 'Best Places' survey
- Slaves quarried sandstone used to build Smithsonian castle
- The best places to work
- Best and worst places to work in federal government
- Postal employees accept early buyout offer
- Agencies set up plans to manage cuts if Congress, Obama fail to reach deficit deal
- Federal workers: Is your agency planning for massive, automatic spending cuts?
- Federal workers: Is your agency planning for massive, automatic spending cuts?
- Survey: Federal workers’ morale dropping
- Unions press Congress to avoid cuts to federal pay and benefits
- Unions press Congress to avoid cuts to federal pay and benefits
- $15.9 billion loss at Postal Service
- In Sandy’s wake, recovery remains a frustrating fight
- Postal Service predicts boost from holiday package volume
- In hard-hit New Jersey towns, a daunting recovery effort
- Two New Jersey towns hit by rushing water
- Philadelphia gets ready for storm
- Government Printing Office has new strategies to keep presses rolling
- Tutu promotes campaign to end child marriage
- Archives inspector general Paul Brachfeld placed on administrative leave
- Stacy London, fashion guru, discusses insecurity in new book
- Payback is tough for former FAA employee
- Aung San Suu Kyi finds common cause with Russian dissident punk rockers
- John Berry, OPM chief, has role as White House’s gay ambassador
- John Berry, head of OPM and openly gay, helps Obama reach out to LGBT community
- Judge temporarily blocks STOCK Act from taking effect for executive branch
- Foreign service workers: Are you concerned about security abroad?
- Tangherlini hoping changes after scandal will ‘bake’ into GSA’s DNA
- Telework guru takes phoning it to new levels at patent office
- Senate to hold another hearing on GSA progress after scandal
- GSA says it has saved $11 million since Las Vegas spending scandal went public
- Justice joins suit against Gallup
- Gay man sues Library of Congress, alleging discrimination
- Former Library of Congress auditor says he was harassed, then fired for being gay
- President extends federal pay freeze
- President Obama continues federal pay freeze until at least next spring
- New federal union chief promises change
- Stepped-up computer monitoring of federal workers worries privacy advocates
- AFGE elects new president; nurse replaces retiring John Gage
- Federal travel reimbursement rate to stay same in fiscal 2013
- VA being probed for conference spending
- Veterans Affairs agency under investigation for conference spending
- Postal Service set to default on payment
- Public employee union stresses job-to-job comparison in private-public pay debate
- Public employee union stresses job-to-job comparison in private vs. public pay debate
- FDA, contractor bicker over Web posting of scientists’ e-mails
- Government told company its data on FDA scientists was not sensitive, document shows
- Federal vs. private-sector pay: No comparison is definitive, auditors say
- GSA spent more than $270,000 to entertain employees who got performance awards
- GSA spent more than $268,000 to entertain employees who got performance awards
- GSA chief imposes hiring freeze, cancels bonuses
- GSA chief reins in bonuses and freezes new hiring
- Former postal worker pleads guilty to embezzling money
- FDA lawyers authorized spying on agency’s employees, senator says
- White House launches 2012 competition to cut waste
- Social Security Administration did not properly record 1.2 million deaths, auditors find
- Letter carriers respond to fictional bioterror attacks
- Auditors find overlap, possible waste in federal job programs for the disabled
- National Weather Service employees won’t face furloughs after lawmakers agree to funding switch
- Postal activists picket outside Post offices over editorials
- Postal workers target Washington Post in protests
- After ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ repeal, a gay pride celebration
- After ‘don’t ask don’t tell’ repeal, a gay pride celebration
- Postal workers, supporters stage hunger strike to highlight plight
- Postal workers plan hunger strike to protest mail service’s financial problems
- Administration warns agencies about monitoring staff e-mail
- NOAA chief cites management ‘failure’ in NWS financial scandal
- Obama administration warns federal agencies that monitoring employees’ e-mail could violate law
- Congress to allow National Weather Service to reconfigure budget
- Dover mortuary whistleblowers to be honored
- Post office closures: A primer
- Pentagon to observe gay pride month for first time
- Sen. Charles Grassley says he is getting no answers from FDA on staff monitoring
- TSA screener wins EEOC case, can wear religious bracelet
- Weather Service may impose furloughs
- Caught in ‘Fast and Furious’ crossfire: A lot of trees
- Weather Service proposes furloughs for up to 5,000 employees
- Weather Service says furloughs possible for up to 5,000 to close budget gap
- DHS chooses paper over computers when delivering documents to Congress
- GSA bonuses, travel expenses raise congressional ire
- ‘Virtual’ GSA employees spent $750,000 on travel over nine months
- Senior executives give mixed views of job
- Senators tell Weather Service Congress won’t authorize plan to shift money
- Survey of senior executives shows mixed level of satisfaction
- Postal Service offers buyouts to mail handlers
- ACLU throws support behind State Department whistleblower
- OPM’s Berry speaks to U-Md. graduates
- Personnel chief tells U-Md. graduates to ‘heal the nation’
- Postal Service moves ahead with closing mail-sorting hubs, though closures will move slowly
- State Department restores Foreign Service spouse’s blog to its Web site after pulling it
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- Postal Service moving ahead with closing mail sorting hubs, though closures will move slowly
- Senate panel to vote on extending benefits to same-sex partners of LGBT federal workers
- U.S. Postal Service losses shown by the hour on Sen. Tom Carper’s Web site
- New website shows Postal Service losing money by the minute
- 3 JPMorgan Chase execs may depart as CEO Jamie Dimon acknowledges ‘terrible, egregious mistake’ on trading
- Postal Service posts new round of financial losses
- Postal Service drops plans to close thousands of post offices, proposes reduced hours
- Postal Service abandons plans to close thousands of post offices
- Postal Service to announce plans to keep rural post offices afloat
- Federal workers survey asks their sexual orientation
- ‘Sammie’ award finalists named from federal workforce
- NOAA pulls ad for magician to motivate employees at leadership event
- NOAA pulls ad for magician in wake of Las Vegas spending scandal
- In National Archives thefts, a radio detective gets his man
- Personnel chief John Berry on the commencement circuit
- EPA official who compared enforcement to crucifixion resigns
- EPA official resigns after enforcement philosophy causes furor
- EPA administrator rejects official’s ‘crucifixion’ comments
- Bills affecting federal workers begin moving through Congress
- Congress considers postal, pension issues
- Bills affecting federal workers begin moving through Congress
- Airport screeners arrested; authorities say they allowed drug smuggling
- GSA probe focuses on conference contractor
- GSA official’s wife accompanied him on trips at taxpayer expense
- GSA inspector general is investigating possible bribes, kickbacks
- Competitive bidding drives GSA inquiry
- Criminal probe sought in GSA case
- GSA Las Vegas spending scandal: Inspector general refers case to Justice for possible investigation
- Ex-GSA buildings chief called Vegas spending spree ‘managerial lapse’
- Ex-GSA buildings chief called Vegas spending spree ‘managerial lapse’
- Acting GSA chief calls Las Vegas spree ‘completely unacceptable’
- New GSA chief calls Las Vegas spree ‘completely unacceptable’
- Commerce Department says cyber attack hasn’t stopped grants
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