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Happy Highway Birthday
By Tom Shoop | Friday, June 30, 2006  |  10:51 AM

Highlighting the 50th anniversary of the interstate highway system, Newsweek interviews Charles Nemmers, who worked at the Federal Highway Administration for 32 years. Here's one interesting thing he says about the development of the system:

The interstate, in terms of civil rights, was one of the first programs in the United States that required a lot of things we take for granted today, and this was pre-Civil Rights Act of 1964. It required that there were no separate facilities for blacks and whites when they worked on construction projects and that there had to be access to all members of the crews that were building the interstate system. These are things that we now take for granted, but back then the interstate system was ahead of where the United States government was and where most of the culture was in terms of opening up the program to all members of society.

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Norm Mineta, Meet Jack Sparrow
By Tom Shoop | Friday, June 30, 2006  |  10:04 AM

These Washington Post "Off Camera" profiles of Bush administration officials and other politicos are priceless. If you're not familiar with them, they look at the non-public lives of these folks, including absurd details about them. The Norman Mineta one from , in which Post reporter Laura Blumenfeld went out on the outgoing Transportation secretary's boat, is one of the better ones. In it, Mineta reveals that while out on the water, he likes to "imagine I'm a pirate. Of the Caribbean." You might think he'd leave it at that, but no. He adds plenty of detail about this particular fantasy: "As the captain of the ship, I'd be directing my crew," he says. "I'd have cannons, depending on how large the target I'm after. I always like to think my boat is more powerful, at least 160 feet -- a multi-masted 200-footer."

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Leaving Las Vegas
By Tom Shoop | Friday, June 30, 2006  |  09:32 AM

Well, I'm back, and you know about what happens in Vegas... Actually, I think I'm the most boring person ever to visit Sin City. Thanks to my hosts at the LA and SF Federal Executive Boards for inviting me and pretending I had some wisdom to offer attendees at their "Leadership Edge" conference. There was much talk there about the same thing that folks on the East Coast are obsessing over. I'll give you a hint: It involves the words "pay" and "performance."

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What Happens in Vegas...
By Tom Shoop | Tuesday, June 27, 2006  |  08:56 AM

I'm off to Las Vegas, to speak to a leadership conference sponsored by the Los Angeles and San Francisco Federal Executive Boards. I'll blog if I can from the conference, but if not, I'll see you back here Friday.

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USPS to Los Alamos: No Deal
By Tom Shoop | Tuesday, June 27, 2006  |  08:50 AM

The Postal Service says, no, it has not entered into an agreement to finance a new science complex for Los Alamos National Laboratory. The agency says it had only signed a "non-binding memorandum of understanding" with the Energy Department to "explore the possibility" of helping with such an effort in exchange for a parcel of land for a new postal facility. Now the postal folks have backed off the whole deal. (Thanks again to DefenseLink for keeping us updated on this.)

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Katrina Fraud Tally: $2 Billion
By Tom Shoop | Tuesday, June 27, 2006  |  08:41 AM

The New York Times tallies up the Katrina waste fraud and abuse today, pegging the total at $2 billion. The paper calls it "one of the most extraordinary displays of scams, schemes and stupefying bureaucratic bungles in modern history," but it was more scams and schemes than bungles. Most of this was fairly run-of-the-mill fraud, just on a very large scale. But the examples of government officials, including some at FEMA and the Army Corps of Engineers, who helped orchestrate scams are simply unconscionable.

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Raise Ruckus on Hill
By Tom Shoop | Monday, June 26, 2006  |  11:06 AM

If it's summer, then it must be time for the annual round of grandstanding by members of Congress over their own pay raise. USA Today reports that as usual, several legislators are undermining the effort to enact a cost-of-living raise for lawmakers with as little fanfare as possible.

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VA Told to Keep Quiet on Free Credit Monitoring
By Tom Shoop | Monday, June 26, 2006  |  09:33 AM

Shhh, don't go publicizing that offer of a year's worth of free credit monitoring to potential identity theft victims, a federal judge has told the Veterans Affairs Department. Lawyers pursuing a class-action suit against the department on behalf of the 26.5 million veterans and military service members whose personal data was stolen convinced a judge to issue a temporary order requiring VA to keep quiet about its offer. They say the VA hasn't made it clear yet whether those who take its offer will be ineligible for other compensation down the road.

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They're Not Jihadists
By Tom Shoop | Friday, June 23, 2006  |  10:51 AM

We should stop calling Islamic extremists "jihadists," argue Douglas E. Streusand and Army Lt. Col. Harry D. Tunnell IV of the National Defense University. The term simply legitimizes their efforts in the Muslim world, because jihad "literally means striving and generally occurs as part of the expression 'jihad fi sabil illah,' striving in the path of God," the scholars say, according to a Defense Department report. So what word should we use? Streusand and Tunnell suggest "hirabah," which specifically refers to those engaged in warfare contrary to Islamic law.

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Postal Service Finances Nuclear Facility
By Tom Shoop | Friday, June 23, 2006  |  10:40 AM

The group Nuclear Watch New Mexico has obtained records showing that the National Nuclear Security Administration has reached an unusual agreement with the Postal Service. A memorandum of understanding with the Postal Service "authorized the USPS, as
a third party, to assist in the development of the two buildings and parking" for a new 400,000-square foot science complex at Los Alamos National Laboratory, the records show. Construction is set to begin early next year. (Thanks to DefenseTech for the link.)

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Locked Laptops Lost
By Tom Shoop | Friday, June 23, 2006  |  10:21 AM

We're in the process of learning just how many federal employees' laptops are stolen every year. Because now every time it happens, agencies feel compelled to issue press releases providing details, lest they end up taking the kind of flogging Veterans Affairs and Energy Department officials have endured for less-than-timely disclosures. Yesterday, the Federal Trade Commission reported that two of its laptops were stolen from a car. (More precisely, a "locked vehicle," the agency took pains to note.) The FTC has notified 110 people that some personal information about them was contained on the computers.

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SBA Nominee is on Morale Mission
By Tom Shoop | Thursday, June 22, 2006  |  01:12 PM

The New York Times reports that Steven C. Preston, President Bush's choice to head the Small Business Administration, faced the Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee yesterday, and pledged to come up with a way to speed the processing of loans for victims of natural disasters. He also promised to deal with declining morale at the agency, which has seen budget and staff cuts in recent years. Preston said he would tour the agency's 70 district offices and spend time with its more than 2,000 employees, because "it's tough for people to do their jobs when morale is low."

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Now, USDA Data Goes Missing
By Tom Shoop | Thursday, June 22, 2006  |  12:48 PM

Another day, another data theft at a federal agency. USA Today reports that a hacker broke into an Agriculture Department computer system earlier this month and may have stolen the names, Social Security numbers and photos of 26,000 Washington-area employees and contractors. The information was used to create staff and contractor ID badges. USDA has a toll-free number people can call for information about the incident: 1-800-FED-INFO (1-800-333-4636).

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Troops Return to New Orleans
By Tom Shoop | Tuesday, June 20, 2006  |  12:20 PM

The last U.S. military troops left New Orleans in February. Now they're back. Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco has agreed to send hundreds of National Guard members back to the city in the wake of six deaths on the streets of New Orleans last weekend, the Los Angeles Times reports.

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USDA Exec to Managers: Get In The Office
By Tom Shoop | Tuesday, June 20, 2006  |  12:10 PM

Another blow for telework: Federal Diarist Steve Barr reports today that Thomas C. Dorr, Agriculture's undersecretary for rural development, has ordered key managers who report to him to quit working alternative schedules and return to standard eight-hour-a-day arrangements. Nontraditional schedules may be good for the managers, Dorr wrote to them in an e-mail, but they don't work for him: "With just over two years remaining to accomplish the agenda that I laid out for Rural Development, I feel that it is necessary and critical to our success that all key management officials are available and accessible on-site each day in order to help us accomplish such a large agenda remaining for Rural Development."

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If You Can't Subpoena It, Buy It
By Tom Shoop | Tuesday, June 20, 2006  |  11:57 AM

"Numerous federal and local law enforcement agencies have bypassed subpoenas and warrants designed to protect civil liberties and gathered Americans' personal telephone records from private-sector data brokers," AP reports today. This doesn't surprise me, because ex-GovExec staffer and current National Journal writer Shane Harris reported more than two years ago on how much data agencies were buying from private data aggregator ChoicePoint.

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A Day Off on the Space Station
By Tom Shoop | Monday, June 19, 2006  |  11:43 AM

NASA reported last week that space station inhabitants Pavel Vinogradov and Jeff Williams got Monday off for Russian Independence Day. Begging the question: What exactly do you do with a day off on the space station? Here's at least a partial answer, from Williams' mission journal:

Recreation includes listening to music, reading news from home, writing e-mail, and reading, among other things. We also have a selection of movies on board although I do not expect to have—or to spend—much time at that…too many other things to do.

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Homeland's Revolving Door
By Tom Shoop | Monday, June 19, 2006  |  10:40 AM

The New York Times kicked off a two-part series Sunday on former Homeland Security officials who have made the jump to the private sector. More than two-thirds of the department's most senior executives have moved through the revolving door, the paper reported. One very interesting tidbit: In 2004, DHS won a ruling from the Office of Government Ethics splitting it into seven components for the purposes of federal ethics rules. That means the one-year prohibition on officials lobbying their former agency doesn't apply to agencies within other DHS components.

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State Deputy To Depart
By Tom Shoop | Monday, June 19, 2006  |  09:48 AM

Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick is out, AP reports. Zoellick, who reportedly had his eye on the Treasury secretary job before it went to Goldman Sachs executive Henry Paulson, has submitted his resignation and will leave sometime next month.

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Farewell to a Personnel Giant
By Tom Shoop | Friday, June 16, 2006  |  12:14 PM

We just published an obituary I wrote about Tom McFee, former assistant secretary for personnel administration at HHS, who died Wednesday. The piece gives a brief rundown on his illustrious career, but here's what it doesn't say: that Tom McFee was one of those people who went out of his way to try to help those of us in the media do a better job of reporting on government.

When I started covering the federal civil service system for Government Executive almost 17 years ago, I was completely ignorant of the subject. Lots of people around Washington gave me the same advice: "Talk to Tom McFee." They were right. When it came to personnel matters, Tom had seen and done it all, and he was patient and kind about sharing his knowledge. There are a whole bunch of us around town who benefited from his dedication and generosity.

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Hooters to Give Back FEMA Funds
By Tom Shoop | Friday, June 16, 2006  |  11:42 AM

Never let it be said that Hooters passed up an opportunity for some cheap publicity. The restaurant chain has offered to reimburse FEMA $200 for a bottle of Dom Perignon champagne bought with Hurricane Katrina relief money. AP reports that a FEMA spokesman said the agency would be happy to take the check, and that it should be made out to "U.S. Government-FEMA."

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Homeland Security Hotline: Do Not Call
By Tom Shoop | Friday, June 16, 2006  |  11:36 AM

Here's one for the You Can't Make This Stuff Up files: USA Today reports that the Homeland Security Department is placing the secure hotline that it uses to communicate with the nation's governors in case of emergency on the federal Do Not Call registry. According to Delaware Gov. Ruth Ann Minner, most of the time when her hotline phone rings, it turns out to be a telemarketer. Other governors have reported the same problem.

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Google Goes Government
By Tom Shoop | Thursday, June 15, 2006  |  04:37 PM

Google has launched a new Web site devoted to searching anything related to the federal government. As first reported by the Washington Post, the site targets federal employees as well as citizens. From our perspective, it was rather nice to see that daily headlines from Government Executive are among those included by default on the new page.

The folks at Google say the site isn't supposed to compete with the current king of the government search sites, FirstGov, but complement it. GSA recently launched a souped-up FirstGov search engine, at a cost of $18 million over five years. The FirstGov search technology is provided by Google competitor Microsoft and Internet search company Vivisimo.--Daniel Pulliam

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Look Out, Rush Limbaugh
By Tom Shoop | Thursday, June 15, 2006  |  08:43 AM

The American Federation of Government Employees is launching its own weekly radio show. It'll be broadcast on Federal News Radio at 1050 on the AM dial in Washington, and on federalnewsradio.com.

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TSA Shortchanged on Fees
By Tom Shoop | Thursday, June 15, 2006  |  08:30 AM

The Homeland Security Department is getting ripped off on the $2.50 fee that airlines are supposed to collect from passengers for every flight they take, AP reports. The airlines are underpaying TSA by up to $14.5 million a year, according to the Homeland Security Department's inspector general. The money is supposed to fund federal airport security screening efforts.

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Japan PM is Goin' to Graceland
By Tom Shoop | Wednesday, June 14, 2006  |  12:05 PM

President Bush is taking Japanese prime minister (and certified Elvis freak) Junichiro Koizumi on a tour of the late singer's Graceland estate later this month, USA Today reports. But the story also includes this rather disturbing little tidbit:

Last year Koizumi crooned to Bush his favorite Elvis tune, I Want You, I Need You, I Love You, at Bush's 59th birthday party at the G8 summit in Gleneagles, Scotland, hosted by Queen Elizabeth II of Britain.

I always wondered what went on behind the scenes at those summits, and now I'm thinking I don't really want to know.

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Park Service Policy: Identify the Dead
By Tom Shoop | Wednesday, June 14, 2006  |  11:48 AM

The National Park Service has decided it will release the names of those killed in the parks, clearing up confusion among public affairs officers about exactly what the agency's policy was on making such information public.

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HHS Chief Flies in Style
By Tom Shoop | Wednesday, June 14, 2006  |  11:40 AM

A private jet leased by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for emergency use is primarily being used to ferry Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt around the country, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports (registration required). Congress has authorized Leavitt to use the jet because of the demands of his job "in times of emergencies" and during "significant events." A CDC spokesman said Leavitt needed access to the jet to fly around the country encouraging senior citizens to sign up for Medicare's new Part D drug program, and to push for preparations for a possible flu pandemic. The secretary, HHS says, flies commercial whenever he can.

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FEMA Funds Football Tix, Sex Changes
By Tom Shoop | Wednesday, June 14, 2006  |  11:04 AM

FEMA's bad press continues unabated, with the revelation that the agency paid out up to $1.4 billion in questionable claims after Hurricane Katrina. Here's a short list of where some of the money went, according to early AP , USA Today and Bloomberg reports:

• $2,358 to someone who claimed a damaged house in a New Orleans cemetery.


• $2,358 in rental assistance to a person who also got $8,000 to stay 70 nights at more than $100 per night in a Hawaii hotel.


• $4,358 to someone who listed his residence as a UPS store.


• Another $4,358 to a guy locked up in a Mississippi prison.


• $139,000 to one person who used 13 different Social Security numbers and 13 addresses to obtain funds.


• Thousands of dollars worth of debit cards that were used to pay for a divorce, season football tickets, a tropical vacation, adult videos, massage-parlor sessions and a sex change operation.

Of course, at the risk of sounding flip, if FEMA's going to make a billion-dollar mistake, this is the kind of one you want it to make, right? They rushed to put the money out there in the mistaken assumption that they weren't going to be grossly ripped off in the aftermath of one of the worst natural disasters in the history of the country. They were obviously wrong about that, and could use much better controls, but at least in this instance they were trying to do the right thing.

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Data Theft: Employees Last to Know
By Tom Shoop | Tuesday, June 13, 2006  |  12:32 PM

Last September, a hacker accessed personnel records for 1,500 employees at the National Nuclear Security Administration. Last week, the Energy Department told Congress about the intrusion. Then, over the weekend, the agency finally started notifying employees who were affected. Hmmm, what's wrong with this picture? Update: I was wrong. The theft actually occurred in June 2004. It took DOE more than a year to realize the data had gone missing.

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Help Us Help You
By Tom Shoop | Monday, June 12, 2006  |  02:16 PM

Want to tell us what to do? Here's your chance. We're looking for your feedback on GovExec.com, to help us serve you better. So we'd appreciate it if you'd take a few minutes to fill out our online user survey. Thanks!

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Rewards For Ratting Out Tax Cheats
By Tom Shoop | Monday, June 12, 2006  |  02:11 PM

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, has a suggestion for the IRS: Slip some more bucks to snitches who rat out big tax cheats. A new report from the Treasury inspector general for tax administration, he says, "notes that the audits and exams based on whistleblower information are nearly twice as productive as normal IRS examinations."

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Fake ID No Problem at DHS
By Tom Shoop | Monday, June 12, 2006  |  01:50 PM

A retired New York City police officer got into Homeland Security headquarters last week with the fake Mexican ID card listing his address as "123 Fraud Blvd," the Washington Times reports today. The officer got the card--which is of a kind GSA in 2003 ruled that agencies should not accept--from a street vendor in California.

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NASA Tries to Chase Vultures Away
By Tom Shoop | Friday, June 09, 2006  |  10:09 AM

On top of all of NASA's other problems, the agency can't seem to get rid of vultures at Kennedy Space Center, USA Today reports. There's a metaphor in there somewhere...

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Data Theft Message: Don't Take Work Home
By Tom Shoop | Friday, June 09, 2006  |  09:12 AM

Looks like the ongoing VA data theft scandal is shaping up to be a major setback for flexible workplace arrangements. Now the VA wants to cut back on telework and eliminate employees' access to department networks from their home PCs. That sends a strong message to employees not only at VA, but across government: Punch in and punch out at the office, and never take work home. Why take the risk that you'll end up bringing home data that will be deemed sensitive? (We in the media will end up reinforcing this message, because we'll be on the lookout for the next story that even remotely resembles this one, in search of a trend.)

Keep in mind that however big a mistake the VA employee made in bringing home sensitive data, he was presumably doing it out of dedication to his job. He wasn't an official teleworker, which means he was working with the information on his own time. From now on, fewer employees will go down that road.

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Making Research Public: No Consistency
By Tom Shoop | Friday, June 09, 2006  |  08:57 AM

Inconsistent policies across agencies about how to communicate scientific policies to the public are jeopardizing the credibility federal scientific research, an independent panel of scientists has reported to Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have taken "steps in the right direction," the scientists said, according to a New York Times report. But the scientists found that other agencies still don't have consistent standards about releasing information to the public and the media.

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Yankees Go Home
By Tom Shoop | Thursday, June 08, 2006  |  01:42 PM

The New York Yankees have discovered they need the approval of the National Park Service to build a new stadium on a plot of land they've picked out, the Washington Post's "Special Interests" column reports. The team has hired a Washington lobbying firm to help out in the effort. On behalf of the fans of every other American League baseball team (not to mention lovers of the history and tradition embodied in Yankee Stadium), I urge the Park Service to fulfill every stereotype of slow-moving government bureaucracy in handling this request.

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Death and Disclosure in the Parks
By Tom Shoop | Thursday, June 08, 2006  |  01:32 PM

AP reports today that Park Service public affairs officers are no longer sure whether they can release the names of people killed on federal lands. Traditionally, that information has been made available to the media, but last year the agency moved to restrict disclosures, citing privacy concerns. Now agency lawyers are looking into the issue. In the meantime, the folks in public affairs are in a very uncomfortable position.

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Federal Biologists Battle Flying Fish
By Tom Shoop | Wednesday, June 07, 2006  |  10:09 AM

Fish and Wildlife Service biologists -- along with their counterparts at the state and local levels -- are on the lookout for invasive species of carp and goby in Illinois waterways. Lest you think this isn't that big a deal, Pam Thiel, project leader for FWS's La Crosse, Wis., Fishery Resources Office and coordinator of the "Carp Corral/Goby Round Up," notes, "Invasive Asian carp can upset the natural balance of the ecosystem, and in addition, the silver carp can actually jump high out of the water and into your boat, causing a safety hazard for anglers, boaters and skiers."

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Army Gets a Case of the Blues
By Tom Shoop | Wednesday, June 07, 2006  |  10:02 AM

Forget those green and white uniforms, soldiers: The Army's down to one service uniform color now: blue. And lest you think they're just ripping off the Air Force, Army leaders assure us that blue as an Army color dates all the way back to the uniforms worn by Continental Army soldiers in 1779.

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Foreign Service Officers: Get Ready for Your Closeup
By Tom Shoop | Wednesday, June 07, 2006  |  09:19 AM

Karen Hughes, undersecretary of State for public diplomacy and public affairs, has a message for State Department employees: Stop focusing so much on "quiet little government-to-government messages" and get out there in front of the TV cameras, making the United States look good in the eyes of the world. "The purpose of our ambassadors and our foreign service officers is to be out interacting with the media to be communicating with the public about America's policies and values and actions," she tells the AP. Making that happen, she says, means "working to try to change the entire culture of the State Department."

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Executive Power: Enough's Enough?
By Tom Shoop | Tuesday, June 06, 2006  |  11:13 AM

The steady expansion of executive powers during the Bush administration may be coming to an end, USA Today reports. About half of Americans surveyed by the paper and Gallup say Bush has “gone too far in expanding the power of the presidency.”

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Press Release Headline of the Day
By Tom Shoop | Tuesday, June 06, 2006  |  10:04 AM

Not really government-related, but so shocking that I couldn't let it pass: "Plant Diseases Threaten Chocolate Production Worldwide."

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Another Day, Another Laptop Theft
By Tom Shoop | Tuesday, June 06, 2006  |  09:46 AM

Attention federal employees: Please secure your laptops. In today's theft news, MSNBC reports that an IRS employee's laptop with personal information on almost 300 agency employees and job applicants--including fingerprints, names, Social Security numbers, and dates of birth--has gone missing. The computer, which didn't contain any taxpayer data, was lost during a plane flight.

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Telework Turnaround?
By Tom Shoop | Monday, June 05, 2006  |  04:25 PM

The San Jose Mercury News reports that technology giant Hewlett-Packard is eliminating telework for all employees in the information technology division of the company. HP believes that putting its IT employees together in the same office will make them work "swifter and smarter."

While telework is a growing trend in the federal government, the concept has received negative publicity in the wake of the theft of personal data on veterans from a VA employee's home. VA Secretary James Nicholson said that he wants to know how many agency employees are working from and the department is reconsidering its telecommuting policies.--Daniel Pulliam

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Bullwinkle Breathes Sigh of Relief
By Tom Shoop | Monday, June 05, 2006  |  12:01 PM

The West Virginia northern flying squirrel is ready to go off the endangered species list, reports
the Fish and Wildlife Service. That's good news for Rocket J. Squirrel.

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Foot(ball) in Mouth
By Tom Shoop | Monday, June 05, 2006  |  11:52 AM

From the transcript of President Bush's speech Friday welcoming the Super Bowl champion Pittsburgh Steelers to the White House: "I want to -- look, I was a Texas Cowboy fan, you know. (Laughter.) Dallas Cowboy fan..."

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Why Governing Makes Campaigning Look Easy
By Tom Shoop | Monday, June 05, 2006  |  09:42 AM

Over at Slate, Mickey Kaus ponders the age-old question of why successful political campaigns so often fail to make the transition to effective presidential administrations:

When you report on a campaign, you notice that virtually all major candidates' "advance men" and women are astonishingly, scarily competent--full of energy, able to organize a three-factory tour with portable bleachers in ten minutes. Where do these people go when the governing starts? Are they so tired they sleep for four years?

I think I have an answer: The smart people in this group stick to what they know best--campaigning. Because governing is much, much harder. One of the great fallacies of political campaigns is that people assume successful ones are so difficult to pull off that the people responsible for them can manage anything. But with all due respect, anyone with a cell phone and a decent amount of caffeine in their system can organize a three-factory tour with portable bleachers in ten minutes. Organizing, say, an emergency response system that can meet the needs of a huge American city that is underwater as a result of a massive hurricane is another matter altogether. This is why literally thousands of professionals devote their lives to figuring out how to effectively manage in the public sector.

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