From the Congressional Glossary – Including Legislative and Budget Terms
Office of Personnel Management / Other People’s Money / OPM
The core mission of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM): “serves the public by providing human resource management leadership and high-quality services that protect and strengthen the merit system of government in partnership with other federal agencies and their employees, as well as by operating the federal government’s highly regarded health, insurance, and retirement programs.”
“Back to the Basics: Is OPM Meeting Its Mission?” Panel 1
Other People’s Money
There is nothing so intoxicating as the ability to speculate with other people’s money.
Other People’s Money
See also:
- Quantitative Easing (QE) Explained
- Crony Capitalism / Rent-Seeking / Corporate Welfare / Revolving Door (CongressionalGlossary.com)
- “Politics is Other People’s Money“
- “What’s So Generous about Spending Other People’s Money?“.
More
- Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
- Office of Personnel Management – Wikipedia
- Stopping Improper Payments to Deceased Annuitants, OPM (20-page PDF
) - Is OPM Corrupting the Procurement Process? FedSmith, May 4, 2012
- IG report: Federal personnel officials steered contracts to favored company. WaPo
- Tens of millions lost on federal workers who are AWOL, or doing union duties, WTOP, March 27, 2013
- “Senior Executive Service (SES) Pay System,” CRS Report RL33128 (77-page PDF)
- “Federal Personnel: Conversion of Employees from Appointed (Noncareer) Positions to Career Positions in the Executive Branch,” CRS Report RL34706 (19-page PDF)
- “Federal Employees’ Retirement System: Benefits and Financing,” CRS Report 98-810 (25-page PDF)
- “Federal Employees Health Benefits Program: Available Health Insurance Options,” CRS Report RS21974 (30-page PDF)
- “The Senior Executive Service: An Overview,” CRS InFocus IF11743 (5-page PDF)
- “Executive Branch Service and the “Revolving Door” in Cabinet Departments: Background and Issues for Congress,” CRS Report R45946 (25-page PDF)
- Washington booms – thanks to other people’s money
- Detroit Has Run Out of Other People’s Money
- Whose Money Is It, Anyway?
- “The Office of Personnel Management (OPM): An Overview,” CRS Report R46833 (18-page PDF
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