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Feb 8th 2010
DC’s snowpocalypse has delayed the swearing in ceremony for GSA’s newly confirmed administrator Martha Johnson. The DorobekINSIDER told you last week that the swearing in ceremony was scheduled to be Tuesday at 2p ET at GSA HQ...
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Feb 5th 2010
We’ve been following the saga forever, but the vote finally happened Thursday afternoon — we had it live as it happened on Federal News Radio 1500 AM’s Daily Debrief with Chris Dorobek and Amy Morris — the Senate first voted to close debate on the Johnson nomination … and then proceeded to confirm Martha N...
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Feb 4th 2010
The much respected California CIO Teri Takai will be named the Defense Department CIO, insiders confirm. She told her staff yesterday.
The Takai appointment was first reported by NextGov’s Bob Brewin, but the official announcement could come very soon, insiders say...
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Feb 3rd 2010
It was thought that Tuesday might be GSA V-Day — as in Vote Day where the Senate would move along Martha Johnson’s long delayed nominationto be the administrator of the General Services Administration...
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Feb 1st 2010
Could Tuesday be V-Day for Martha Johnson, the Obama administration’s nominee to be GSA administrator — V-day meaning Senate vote day.
Wetold you last week Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) had put Johnson’s on the list for cloture — essentially putting her forward to end debate and then allow a yeah-or-nah vote on her nomination...
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Jan 30th 2010
The DorobekInsider told you it was likely to happen — and in fact it has: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) tonight filed a cloture motion for Martha Johnson’s long pending nomination, Federal News Radio’s Jason Miller confirmed...
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Jan 26th 2010
Today, of course, marks the anniversary of the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States — and there are all sortsof assessments of his first year going on right now...
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Jan 13th 2010
A new report says too many top jobs in the Obama administration are vacant a year into the president's term. The Partnership for Public Service credits President Barack Obama for a well-organized transition to the White House. But it faults the president's team and Congress for filling top posts too slowly.
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Dec 22nd 2009
We told you about it first right here last week — and it will be official today — the White House has accepted the resignation of GSA acting administrator Paul Prouty and has designated Stephen R...
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Dec 13th 2009
Shockingly enough, we are nearing the end of the year — and we are also nearing the end of the first decade of the 21st century. I actually forgot all of this until I was reading a New York Times story Naming the ’00s, where people are struggling about what to call this decade that we’re about to finish up...
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Dec 8th 2009
The Agriculture Department is moving forward with its controversial mega-management reorganization and today, USDA officials announced that the agencyhas received approval from the Office of Personnel Management to move forward with early retirement offers and voluntary separation incentive payments to departmental management employees...
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Dec 2nd 2009
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We told you earlier that Evilee Ebb had left the 1105 Government Information Group has a new gig. She quietly has a new job — Mondaywas her first day at TechTarget, the Needham, Mass...
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Nov 25th 2009
The Agriculture Department is moving forward with its controversial mega-management reorganization and today, USDA officials announced that the agencyhas received approval from the Office of Personnel Management to move forward with early retirement offers and voluntary separation incentive payments to departmental management employees...
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Oct 28th 2009
Yes — more than 10 months into the Obama administration — and Martha Johnson, the nominee to be the administrator of the General ServicesAdministration, is still awaiting Senate confirmation...
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Oct 9th 2009
The DorobekInsider told you first this week that the White House was going to announce — soon — that Daniel Gordon [PDF], the deputy general counsel for the Government Accountability Office, would be nominated to be the administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy...
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