July 27, 2009
Last week, an effort to advance several key federal workforce initiatives in Congress suffered a major setback after the amendment was withdrawn from consideration in the Senate’s version of the…
July 14, 2009
In accordance with the Bylaws of the National Federation of Federal Employees, National-Secretary Treasurer William R. Dougan has succeeded the late Richard N. Brown as NFFE National President. Having resumed…
July 10, 2009
This week, key committees in both houses of Congress approved figures for this year’s federal pay adjustment, however they arrived at very different results. Thursday, the Senate Appropriations Committee endorsed…
July 1, 2009
Last Thursday, NFFE National President William R. Dougan sat down with key Department leadership at the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Washington, DC, to discuss key issues affecting USDA employees…
June 26, 2009
In a letter sent Tuesday to House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey (D-WI) and Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee Chairman Jose Serrano (D-NY), Congressmen Edolphus Towns (D-MD) and Stephen…
June 26, 2009
By a vote of 389-22, yesterday the U.S. House of Representatives overwhelming passed H.R. 2647, the 2010 Defense Authorization Act, containing an amendment that could spell the beginning of the…
June 15, 2009
This past Friday, the House of Representatives voted 307-97 in favor of the Senate’s version of H.R. 1256, the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, which lacked many critical…
June 10, 2009
When cowboys and school kids sing “Home, home on the range. . . . Where seldom is heard a discouraging word,” they probably aren’t thinking about employees of the U.S.…
June 5, 2009
Thursday evening, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 258-154 in favor of H.R. 626, the Federal Employees Paid Parental Leave Act (FEPPLA). The bipartisan bill, sponsored by Rep. Carolyn Maloney…
June 4, 2009
Wednesday, the Office of Management and Budget issued a Statement of Administration Policy in support of H.R. 626, the Federal Employees Paid Parental Leave Act. The bill, introduced in the…