- Reform the Appropriations Process - January 12, 2022
Once a month the Federal Managers Association writes a Hear It from FMA article for the FEDmanager.com newsletter. This article originally ran in the January 11, 2022 issue.
Congress has what’s known as the “power of the purse”. Article One of the Constitution grants Congress the authority – and the responsibility – to pass an annual budget that funds the government and all its necessary functions. This is an incredible power to have. Congress can decide what weapons systems the military will have, how NASA will access space, how many infectious disease experts the CDC will be able to hire, how big of a budget the IRS will have for chasing down tax evasion, and far more. That assumes, of course, that they pass a budget.
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- The Bureau of Prisons Seemingly Doesn't Care About Victims Or Children. Will the Deputy Attorney General Show That She Does? - January 7, 2022
Opinion by Jason R. Wojdylo -
Jason Wojdylo recently retired as a senior law enforcement official within the U.S. Marshals Service after spending years trying unsuccessfully to persuade the Bureau of Prisons to change its practices to make federal inmates pay court-ordered restitution, fines, forfeiture, child support, and other debts. He is also Vice President for Law Enforcement Operations of the U.S. Marshals Service chapter of the Federal Managers Association.
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- Sue Thatch: A Champion for the Federal Workforce - December 16, 2021
FEDforum
FEDforum asked organizations to identify someone we view as a champion for federal employees. We considered some Members of Congress, but settled upon our own Sue Thatch.
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- The President’s Management Agenda: A Modern Civil Service - December 9, 2021
Once a month the Federal Managers Association writes a Hear It from FMA article for the FEDmanager.com newsletter. This article originally ran in the December 7, 2021 issue.
Several aspects of the new President's Management Agenda (PMA) are beneficial, from empowering the federal workforce to ensuring the federal government provides services as effectively and efficiently as possible. These are sound and relevant principles.
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- Laptops & Locality Pay - August 3, 2021
Hear It from FMA, FEDMANAGER.com
Locality pay exists because some areas have significantly different costs of living from others. San Francisco, for example, has a locality pay 41.4% higher than federal General Schedule base pay. This is because of the vastly higher cost of living in San Francisco compared to much of the country; while the median rent in San Francisco costs $3,035 per month, the median rent in the state of West Virginia is $727 per month.
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- Celebrating FMA Manager of the Year Kimberly Price - April 7, 2021
- This article originally ran in the April 6, 2022 issue of FEDManager.comThe Federal Managers Association has recognized Kimberly Price, President of FMA Chapter 191, Railroad Retirement Board (RRB), as FMA’s Manager of the Year – an award that she richly deserves. Kimberly has been an employee of the RRB since June 1990. Kimberly has spent at least two-thirds of her career in some form of leadership or management, rising through the ranks to her current position as Director of Policy and Systems, a position she has held since May 2015. Kimberly is both the first woman and the first African American to ever hold this executive level position.
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- Why We Need to Focus on Pay Equity in Government - February 23, 2021
- By Howard Risher, Government ExecutiveA recent headline on an HR website alerted private employers to renewed commitment to dealing with a long recognized problem in the United States: “Biden admin likely to act on pay equity, systemic bias, says former EEOC official.” That is consistent with the new administration’s public policy goals and with statements President Biden has made in the past. In a 2018 speech at Brookings, Biden focused on “the hollowing of the middle, income inequality and lack of opportunity.”
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- Preserving Competence in the Civil Service - February 3, 2021
- Once a month the Federal Managers Association writes a Hear It from FMA article for the FEDmanager.com newsletter. This article originally ran in the February 2, 2021 issue.If one wanted to cripple the leadership and efficiency of the civil service, it would be difficult to design a more efficient way to do it than the creation of Schedule F. Not only would the result of Schedule F have been a routine, mass firing every four to eight years of the upper echelons of the bureaucracy that enables the government to function, but it also would have created an incredible incentive for competent feds who would make excellent leaders to do everything in their power to avoid promotion to the level where their talents could be best used.
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- Infrastructure Investments and Modernization Needed at Federal Installations - February 5, 2020
- Hear It from FMA, FedManager.comOn Wednesday, January 29, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and other top legislators in the House unveiled a $760 billion infrastructure package. They appealed to President Trump, who campaigned on a $1 trillion infrastructure plan, to join them in moving this funding forward. As recently as May 2019, the President was expected to propose a $2 trillion infrastructure package, but he urged Congress to first pass the United States-Mexico-Canada (USMCA) trade deal. He signed that deal into place on January 29, the same day House Democrats offered their infrastructure proposal.
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