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Understatement: Congress doesn’t function properly

Survey of congressional staff shows worrisome trends in how the crucial staff feels about their jobs, their working conditions, and the behavior of Members.

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Courtesy of: https://www.justice.gov/archives/olp/staff-profile/former-assistant-attorney-general-office-legal-policy-hampton-y-dellingerHampton Yeats Dellinger

For federal employee justice, some continuity in leadership

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(Photo courtesy of the General Services Administration)The new DHS headquarters, which GSA is managing, includes green roofs, and other green buildings features. green roofs, green buildings, St Elizabeths, GSA

Telework redux: A day in the life of one D.C. office

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Would you take a pay cut for more telework?

Survey reveals people really treasure work-life balance, even if it meant hypothetically less salary

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Election 2024 Trump Colorado Insurrection Amendment

Unelected bureaucrats do the darndest things

Unelected civil servants mostly work to stay with the law and administrative norms. The Chevron challenge is complicated.

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A winter storm delivers heavy snow to the Capitol in Washington, Monday, Jan. 3, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Snow brings telework snowball fight

Tom Temin Commentary

In reality, snow and other emergencies are never simple affairs. In this case, the OPM declaration plopped into a stew of child care issues and work attitudes bubbling in a soup of uncertainty over permanent telework policy.

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