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More fallout from VA, IRS scandals hitting federal employees
Washington Post ^ | September 16, 2014 | Eric Yoder

Posted on 09/16/2014 2:38:45 PM PDT by Second Amendment First

Legislators are pushing this week to leave Washington for the campaign trail, but they are taking the time to revisit two scandals, in the Department of Veterans Affairs and the IRS, that have occupied much of their attention this year — with spillover impact on federal employees.

The House could vote as early as Tuesday on legislation to make it easier for agencies to take disciplinary action against career members of the Senior Executive Service, the layer of employees between political appointees and career middle managers.

The bill would double to two years the standard SES probationary period in which agencies have more discretion to take disciplinary actions. It also would broaden the circumstances in which actions could be taken, and would include those an agency considers justified as it promotes “efficiency of the service.”

In addition, the measure would end the right to maintain executive-level pay for those demoted from the SES ranks into the General Schedule, though a provision shortening the notice time for disciplinary actions from 30 to 15 days has been dropped in favor of requiring agencies to expedite such cases. Also dropped was a provision requiring unpaid leave while an appeal is pending; instead, an exec who is kept on paid status but who loses on appeal would have to reimburse the government.

On Monday, the Senior Executives Association urged a vote against the bill.

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1 posted on 09/16/2014 2:38:45 PM PDT by Second Amendment First
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“legislation to make it easier for agencies to take disciplinary action against career members of the Senior Executive Service,”

Not good enough. Strip all unelected bureaucrats - and I mean every one, no exceptions - of their power to write law. If the morons in Congress care to look, they’ll discover that only Congress may write laws. Unelected bureaucrats writing law is a basic tenet of communist and fascist dictatorships.That’s enough of this illegal law-making krap by unaccountable leftist thugs.


2 posted on 09/16/2014 2:57:22 PM PDT by sergeantdave
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That’ll do ‘er...


3 posted on 09/16/2014 2:57:24 PM PDT by Mr. K (Palin/Cruz 2016)
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We have come to the point where for the USA to prosper, Washington must decline.


4 posted on 09/16/2014 3:03:31 PM PDT by PGR88
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“While on its face this may seem like reasonable legislation, it is, in fact, a troubling attempt to keep chipping away at laws that protect the federal workforce from becoming a politicized patronage system. . . . Such changes to the SES system are a slippery slope to expansion to the rest of the federal workforce,” SEA President Carol A. Bonosaro said in a statement.

How can you tell when a federal bureaucrat is lying?

5 posted on 09/16/2014 3:05:03 PM PDT by skeeter
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“While on its face this may seem like reasonable legislation, it is, in fact, a troubling attempt to keep chipping away at laws that protect the federal workforce from becoming a politicized patronage system. . . .

LOL.

6 posted on 09/16/2014 3:05:50 PM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: sergeantdave
Unelected bureaucrats writing law is a basic tenet of communist and fascist dictatorships.

Good point. Maybe our 'lawmakers' should focus on their jobs and stop bureaucrats, companies and lobbyist from writing 'laws' too. Congress is disgusting...

7 posted on 09/16/2014 3:42:27 PM PDT by GOPJ ("If America was a house, the Left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutfeld)
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Congress is disgusting... “

That’s a fact. That Congress allows unelected commies and fascist bureaucrats to write law is enough for me to vote for hanging most of Congress for treason at an American-style Nuremberg trial.

We need to start talking about traitors in DC, including Congress, the White House and the mercenary bureaucrat traitors. The latter is my target because I know a whole bunch of these bureaucrats. They’ve had their chance to choose the right side and have chosen wrong.


8 posted on 09/16/2014 5:35:15 PM PDT by sergeantdave
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The ironic thing is that GW Bush used to give Federal employees decent raises to keep up with inflation. The Federal Employees union supported Obama twice and they have had their pay frozen for years, benefits cut, and furloughed without pay in some agencies.

Makes you wonder why they support this twit.

9 posted on 09/16/2014 7:52:25 PM PDT by SkyPilot
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What congress is doing is legal. Remember Pelosi saying we’d find out what was in the ObamaCare bill AFTER it was signed? They don’t even read the stuff. That said, the best and only solution is to vote these people out of office.

It’s a free country and if we elect people who very carefully ‘sell’ laws (staying within the limits they’ve set for themselves) then there’s nothing ethically we can do except vote them out.

It’s frustrating but any of the worlds’ systems that allow for ‘faster’ answers and solutions tend toward being thuggy dictatorships...

I’d rather put up with what we have... and work to change it within our systems.


10 posted on 09/17/2014 10:15:49 AM PDT by GOPJ ("If America was a house, the Left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutfeld)
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I’m referring specifically to unelected bureaucrats writing law. What they’re doing is illegal. Unelected bureaucrats writing law, who are unaccountable to the voters and can’t be removed via the ballot box, are engaged in tyranny. If Congress won’t remove these petty tyrants, then it’s up to the people to remove them by any means at their disposal.


11 posted on 09/17/2014 3:44:39 PM PDT by sergeantdave
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