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Operation Clean Up
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Dear
AFGE Activist,
If we're
going to clean up the waste, fraud and abuse in government
contracting, we need you to contact your senators today. The
Clean Up Act might be introduced in the United States Senate as
early as next week by Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD). This
monumental piece of legislation 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. But this
legislation can't pass without the help of grassroots activists
like you. We need you to send your lawmakers a fax and ask them
to co-sponsor the Clean Up Act. Please take a minute and contact
them today.
Click Here to Send a
Message to Your Lawmakers
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 there 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.
Click Here to Send a Message to Your
Lawmakers
We must take action to ensure The
Clean Up Act receives bi-partisan support in the House and
Senate. By taking action today, you can help put an end to the
waste, fraud and abuse in the contracting out process. It's time
we brought jobs back in-house and ensure that we have a just
A-76 process.
Click Here to Send a Message to Your
Lawmakers
In solidarity,
John Gage
National
President
American Federation of Government
Employees, AFL-CIO
Send a letter to the following decision maker(s):
Your Senators
Below is the sample letter:
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
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