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Senators: Bonuses for Government Brass Suspicious
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Senior lawmakers want a closer look at bonuses for government bigwigs, after a recent study showed two out of three federal executives were awarded hefty bonuses last year.
"This is beginning to look a lot like Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon, where all the children are above average," said Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D.
Dorgan and Sens. Daniel Akaka, D-Hawaii, and George Voinovich, R-Ohio, have asked the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to examine the awards, which averaged more than $13,000 per executive.
By comparison, the average bonus for a non-senior executive service government employee was $969 last year, according to a government spokesman.
The bipartisan trio asked GAO to see what safeguards protect the executive bonus award system from "politicization and/or mismanagement."
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The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) survey, released last month, found that five agencies awarded more than 90 percent of their top executives year-end bonuses. Those were the Departments of Defense, Labor and Housing and Urban Development, the General Services Administration, and OPM, which conducted the survey.
More than 97 percent of OPM senior executives received bonuses last year, averaging $15,442 apiece, according to the office's survey.
The office did not immediately respond to a request for comment for this story.
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August 6, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (24)
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if YOU want to be an informed voter, do some detective work. YOU could start by delving into the savings and loan fiasco that was overseen by mr bush senior.
start by comparing the economy/state of the union before and after that event...it was and still is a crushing financial blow to this economy that was/is (understandably) brushed under the rug asap by the republicans (who largely orchestrated the whole shebang either by intent of will or indifference/ignorance/stupidity.
in either case, the honest and for the people leadership/stewardship that was needed was not in place,and because of this this country and the citizens suffer.what a wonderful job of oversight the fdic did, could they have possibly been alot of republicans?
Posted by: bah | Aug 7, 2007 2:15:26 PM
My boss got over $6000 for doing nothing but stopping the rest of the office from doing anything worthwhile. For my first 3 months on board I had to listen to her whine about her boyfriend and the lines in her face. When i stopped listening she marginalized my position and doesn't talk to me at all now.
Posted by: devlynne | Aug 8, 2007 5:56:51 PM
Is Clinton a drag? The vicious propaganda and lies that the Republicans wants everyone to believe is that the Democratic leaders are worried that Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton who is now at the top of the Democratic 2008 ticket could hurt the other candidates at the bottom. This folks is what is called deceitful and rotten to the core politics. The Republicans are attacking Senator Clinton the former first lady and are propagandizing that her popularity could indanger the Democrats candidates standing with the independent voters, well well, I thought this is what elections are all about. The one that get the majority of votes wins. The Republicans are propagandizing that the Republicans who otherwise would vote may stay home if she was not the candidate. This is pure hogwash at best the Republicans are in such disarray from all the corruption plaguing the Republican Party that it a wonder why most of them are not doing time in a prison like all other criminal lawbreakers and why these people are again running for office is disgusting and unamerican.
Posted by: William | Aug 12, 2007 6:59:05 PM
ahh william, at least there are 2 of us...
Posted by: bah | Aug 12, 2007 9:29:09 PM
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