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How feds helped children of Haiti after the earthquake
Sammie nominee Pius Bannis of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in Haiti explains how he and his team helped get over 1,000 children to the United States.
Tags: management , Haiti , U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services , Pius Bannis , earthquake , Dorothy Ramienski , daily debrief
Sammies finalist fights unapproved drugs
Through aggressive enforcement actions, incentives and multi-faceted education campaigns, FDA stopping the distribution of hundreds of unapproved prescription drugs. Deborah Autor is the fed behind the effort.
Tags: Federal Drive , Deborah Autor , FDA , Center for Drug Evaluation and Research , Service to America Medal , Partnership for Public Service , Rachel Stevens
DOE analyst takes science beyond textbook
We continue our Sammies Tracker series, speaking to finalists in this year's Service to America Medals from the Partnership for Public Service
Tags: Sue Ellen Walbridge , Federal Drive , DoE , National Science Bowl , Service to America
TARP team honored as a Sammies finalist
Under enormous pressure, with little time to spare and no playbook to follow, the Treasury Department's newly created Office of Financial Stability (OFS) had to recruit highly qualified staff to administer TARP, build an operation from scratch, negotiate complex agreements to provide hundreds of billions of dollars, and ensure that their decisions were done according to the strict letter of the law and with strong fiscal controls. Timothy Massad, chief counsel, explains how they pulled that off.
Tags: Federal Drive , SAMMIES Tracker , Service to America Medals , Treasury , TARP , Timothy Massad , Office of Financial Stability
SAMMIE Finalist reassured while averting disaster
His conviction that the Treasury's debt office was on the verge of disaster much like 2005 when the Federal Emergency Management Agency was ill-equipped to handle Hurricane Katrina led him to push for a complete overhaul of the risk management tools used to issue the national debt. Meet Karthik Ramanathan: SAMMIE finalist.
Tags: Federal Drive , Partnership for Public Service , Service to America Medals , Treasury , Karthik Ramanathan
Sammies nominee saves the Great Lakes
Special fed's work saved the Great Lakes.
Tags: pay and benefits , USGS , Ryan Jackson , Service to America Medal , DorobekInsider
SAMMIES: Tech-savvy winners
At least half of the Service to America Medal winners relied on IT for their work.
Tags: Service to America Medals , Partnership for Pubic Service , technology , Dorobek Insider , Must Reads
Nominations open for 2011 SAMMIES
It's time to start thinking about the 2011 Service to America Medals. Tim McManus from the Partnership for Public Service tells us how to nominate someone for the awards.
Tags: PPS , Tim McManus , Service to America Medals , Dorobek Insider , management
SAMMIES Review/Local Government Job Losses
Host Derrick T. Dortch explores the Service to America medals and government layoffs around the country.
September 17, 2010
Tags: Derrick Dortch , Fed Access , layoffs
DHS fed named 2010 Federal Employee of the Year
The devastation in Haiti was so overwhelming after the January earthquake, it might have paralyzed lesser people than our next guest. But this Homeland Security Department worker swung into action. As a result, there are hundreds of happy children scampering around the U.S. He is the Citizenship and Immigration Services field office director for Haiti, and the 2010 Federal Employee of the Year, Pius Bannis.
Tags: Federal Drive , SAMMIES Tracker , Pius Bannis , Service to America
