Senators Press for Broader Definition of ‘Inherently Governmental’ Federal Daily - March 23, 2010 http://www.federaldaily.com/federaldaily/archive/2010/03/FD032310.htm?s=fd_032510#a A contingent of 11 Democratic senators urged the Office of Management and Budget to more broadly define what constitutes inherently governmental job categories that can be performed only by federal civil servants. In a March 18 letter, the senators urged OMB Director Peter Orszag to define “inherently governmental” work in expansive terms “to cover all sensitive functions so managers won’t need designations like ‘core,’ ‘critical’ and ‘mission-essential’ to shield jobs they know are best performed by federal workers.” The letter is part of the larger...
