Sammies

2023 Sammies recognize the exceptional work of federal employees

This year’s Sammies winners were commended for their work in everything from nationwide infrastructure investments to improved access to student loan forgiveness…

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The government’s best and most accomplished get honored this evening

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Food Stamps

These USDA employees modernized an old program so poor Americans could eat better

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Trump Classified Documents

This federal lawyer got a settlement from a powerful industry after a 20-year dispute

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FILE - In this Sept. 21, 2017, file photo, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Building is shown in Washington. Two high-ranking Trump political appointees at the EPA engaged in fraudulent payroll activities, including payments to employees after they were fired and to one of the officials when he was absent from work, that cost the agency more than $130,000, a report by an internal watchdog says. Former chief of staff Ryan Jackson and former White House liaison Charles Munoz submitted “official timesheets and personnel forms that contained materially false, fictitious, and fraudulent statements

How the EPA funneled enforcement into a difficult-to-reach part of the country

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Peter Musurlian

In our Service to America Medals series: How the Air Force went from logjam to innovation factory

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It’s time to celebrate some of the government’s best and brightest

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Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medals

A red letter day that embraces and celebrates the best and brightest of the federal workforce

Federal Drive host Tom Temin, who interviewed 20 Sammies finalists, had one more interview in him: this one with Max Stier, the President and CEO of the…

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Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medals

2022 Sammies honors latest crop of federal unsung heroes

Protecting the health and safety of Americans bridged together the priorities of many of the winners and nominees this year for the Partnership for Public…

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FILE - In this March 24, 2020, file photo, a portable cot with the Federal Emergency Management Agency logo FEMA printed on the backrest, along with other cots, line the basketball court at a makeshift medical facility in a gymnasium at Southern New Hampshire University in Manchester, N.H.  On Friday, Oct. 22, The Associated Press reported on stories circulating online incorrectly claiming FEMA workers aren’t subject to a vaccine mandate, and also falsely asserting that they’re being used to replace health care personnel who refuse to comply with such mandates.  (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

Meet the FEMA administrator who ensured millions got COVID vaccines early on

When the first COVID vaccines came out in early 2021. It turned from a scientific problem to a logistics problem, how to distribute millions of doses to Americans clamoring to get them.

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