Economy, Starting Over, and Taking PART
Taking Time, Letting it Work President Bush gave a speech to the US Chamber of Commerce this morning, talking about the government’s response to the financial...
Taking Time, Letting it Work
President Bush gave a speech to the US Chamber of Commerce this morning, talking about the government’s response to the financial markets crisis.
Starting Over for the Right Results
The Office of Personnel Management is starting over on the contract to produce a benefits calculator, after announcing yesterday at a news conference that the RetireEZ program is moving ahead without contractor Hewitt. Deputy OPM Director Howard Weizmann talked about what’s going right with the RetireEZ program. Federal News Radio’s Max Cacas was at the news conference, and told me what the problems were, and where OPM is going next (see more of Max’s coverage here).
Click to hear Director Weizmann
Click to hear the interview with Max Cacas
Lessons Learned
Former Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Arthur Leavitt was a witness at a Senate Banking Committee hearing yesterday about the credit and lending crunch. Chairman Christopher Dodd asked him, and some of the hearing’s other witnesses, about how the crunch started and how another one can be prevented.
Click to watch the entire hearing
Bringing in the Little Guns
The US Agency for International Development is putting out the call for the Development 2.0 Challenge. Wesley Wilson, head of the Global Development Commons program for USAID, gave us the details for the challenge, and why they’re bypassing the “big guys.”
PART Time Employees
Keep it, trash it, or somewhere in between? Many people are asking that question about the Performance Assessment Rating Tool. Joe Ferrara, Associate Dean of the Georgetown Public Policy Institute and a former SESer at the Pentagon, discussed the merits and drawbacks of PART, and what a new administration might want to keep or change.
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