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Dear AFGE Activist,

The Clean Up Act will be introduced very soon in Congress by Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) and Representative John Sarbanes (D-MD). The Clean Up Act would clean up the contracting out mess left behind by the previous administration by making the outsourcing and insourcing processes more fair to federal employees and more accountable to taxpayers. And we need you to contact your lawmakers and ask them to co-sponsor this important piece of legislation.

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The Clean Up Act builds on provisions recently passed in the FY09 Omnibus Appropriations Bill that require agencies to develop insourcing plans to bring in-house new work and contracted out work and suspend the use of the OMB Circular A-76 process. The Clean Up Act would also ensure inherently governmental work would be brought back in-house; encourage agencies to assign new work to federal employees; require agencies to assess whether or not their will be shortages of federal employees and develop plans to address these shortages; and reform the OMB Circular A-76 process; and suspend the use of that process until all of the reforms discussed above have been substantially implemented across the federal government.

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We must take action to ensure The Clean Up Act receives bi-partisan support in the House and Senate. By taking action today, we can put an end to the waste, fraud and abuse in the contracting out process.

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In solidarity, 

John Gage

National President

American Federation of Government Employees, AFL-CIO

Subject: Co-sponsor the Clean Up Act

Dear [decision maker name automatically inserted here],

I am writing to urge you to become an original cosponsor of The Clean Up Act (S. 924) by contacting the office of Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD), the lawmaker who will introduced this important legislation on April 29, 2009. The Clean Up Act would make the outsourcing and insourcing processes more fair to federal employees and more accountable to taxpayers. The recently passed FY09 Omnibus Appropriations Bill requires agencies to develop insourcing plans to bring in-house new work and contracted out work and suspend the use of the OMB Circular A-76 process. The Clean Up Act would build on these and other precedents and:

1) ensure that work that should be performed by federal employees is incrementally brought back in-house;
2) encourage agencies to assign new work to federal employees rather than through yet another sole-source or limited competition contract
3) require agencies to determine where there are or will be shortages of federal employees and develop plans to address these shortages; and
4) direct the Obama Administration to make drastic, long-overdue reforms to the OMB Circular A-76 process; and suspend the use of that process until all of the reforms discussed above have been substantially implemented across the federal government.

It's time to put an end to the waste, fraud and abuse in the contracting out process. I would appreciate a response to my request. Thank you.

Sincerely,

Sincerely,

[Your Name]

cc:
Senator Barbara Mikulski