Weather Service director retires
(Benjamin C. Tankersley)
Announcement comes day after report that was critical of agency’s financial management.
Survey: Pay, benefits not enough to attract talent, federal executives say
The survey also found that Senior Executive Service managers are proud to be elite civil servants.
OPM polls agencies on domestic violence policies
OPM has asked agencies to send in their policies regarding domestic violence and the federal workplace, in preparation for writing new government-wide guidance.
IRS to close 43 small offices
The IRS says plans to close 43 of its smaller offices will have minimal impact on taxpayers and employees.
Federal agencies told to begin awarding flags for fallen employees
Federal agencies have been told that they can begin presenting flags to honor federal employees who are killed in the line of duty.
Lawmaker demands further inquiry into GSA’s Neely
Rep. John Mica will introduce legislation penalizing senior federal employees who decline to assist a congressional investigation.
(J. Scott Applewhite / AP)
Federal workers’ pay satisfaction drops
Among 30 large agencies, employees at the FDIC were happiest with their salaries, while VA workers were least satisfied.
IRS to close 43 small offices
The IRS says plans to close 43 of its smaller offices will have minimal impact on taxpayers and employees.
Not everyone is comfortable reporting unethical behavior, survey indicates
COLUMN | About 45 percent of Secret Service workers would fear reprisal, and that’s too high.
In the Loop
In the Loop: Pot, kettle
In the Loop’s roundup: Jay Carney’s ‘sloth’ accusation comes back to haunt him; the GSA conference planner makes an exit; why Secret Service workers won’t speak up.
Background Check: Richard Cordray
In the Loop’s new feature debuts with a conversation with Richard Cordray, who’s President Obama’s consumer czar (and does not play Kenneth on “30 Rock”).
Experts give odds to Edwards on appeal
Legal experts contend that questions about murky campaign finance laws could offer John Edwards a good chance of winning an appeal if he is convicted.
The Influence Industry: Georgian power struggle becomes D.C. lobbying battle
A Georgian billionaire brings his political campaign to Washington, hiring a half-dozen major lobbying firms ahead of parliamentary elections in October.
Many top Obama fundraisers are gay
The controversy that has erupted this week over his stance on same-sex marriage highlights the gay community’s importance to his re-election fundraising.
Congress favors status quo in funding itself
IN SESSION | The Capitol Police and auditors at the GAO would fare well under the House funding bill, while a project to restore the Capitol Dome would take a hit.
No slogan necessary?
The last three minority parties to seize control of the House had platforms to rally around and an opposing-party president in the White House.
Where will Romney find his vice president? Probably on the Hill
Members of Congress have a hard time being elected president, but the No. 2 job tends to come more easily.
Justices pressured to revisit Citizens United
HIGH COURT | In upholding a 100-year-old state law, the Montana justices seemed to be openly defying Citizens United’s holding that the First Amendment grants corporations, and by extension labor unions, the right to spend unlimited amounts of their treasuries to support or oppose candidates.
Maryland, Virginia and the court that divides them
Maryland’s Democratic attorney general and Virginia’s Republican are at times on opposite sides at the Supreme Court.
Divining Congress’s intent
In its efforts to determine Congress’s intent when it passed a piece of legislation, the Supreme Court may turn to the legislative history of an act, but only with trepidation.
Treaty on the seas is in rough Senate waters
The Law of the Sea Convention is having difficulty getting ratified.
Nuclear weapons just don’t make sense
Nuclear weapons are terror weapons, and basically unusable.That’s one reason why no rational strategy has ever been developed to justify them. Events in the past 10 days make my case.
Retired Gen. James Cartwright offers a fresh view on defense
Former Joint Chiefs of Staff vice chair spoke frankly about defense spending, and hopefully the Senate Armed Services Committee will listen.
The Federal Buzz
Is government work a dream job?
GovLoop and the Federal Eye asked how readers came to their current job, and what drives them to do the work they do
The fragile health of government HR
The federal government’s human resources community is like the proverbial shoemaker’s children.
Federal Player
Ensuring delivery of sensitive diplomatic materials
Shane Morris played a crucial behind-the-scenes role for the State Department during the Arab Spring uprisings in 2011, ensuring that U.S. embassies were able to dispatch and receive critical classified documents and equipment to fully carry out their diplomatic missions.
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