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Dear
AFGE Activist,
AFGE’s fight to clean
up the waste, fraud and abuse in federal contracting moved one
big step closer to reality this morning. Thanks to the
leadership of Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD), the CLEAN UP Act,
a bill that will clean up the contracting mess that the Bush
administration left behind, was introduced in the Senate.
And introduction of the House version of the CLEAN UP Act,
sponsored by Representative John Sarbanes (D, MD-3) will happen
soon. We need you to keep this fight red hot! Contact your
Senators now and urge them to support this monumental piece of
legislation.
Click Here to Send a
Message to Your Lawmakers
The CLEAN UP Act,
championed by Senator Mikulski, is also co-sponsored by
Senators Richard Durbin (D-IL), Roland Burris (D-IL), Ted
Kennedy (D-MA), Charles Shumer (D-NY), Kirsten Gillibrand
(D-NY), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Bob Casey (D-PA), Patrick Leahy
(D-VT) and Patty Murray (D-WA).
Click Here to Send a Message to Your
Lawmakers
With today's introduction of the CLEAN UP Act in the
Senate - and the expected introduction in the House in
early May – we are closer than we have ever been to
stopping the waste, fraud, and abuse in government contracting.
With your help, we can make a clean sweep of the A-76 process.
Join Operation Clean Up. Send a fax to your lawmaker today.
Thanks for all you do for working families.
Click Here to Send a Message to Your
Lawmakers
In solidarity,
John Gage
National
President
American Federation of Government
Employees, AFL-CIO
P.S. Please take a moment to watch AFGE's video about
the CLEAN UP Act : http://www.afge.org/index.cfm?fuse=content&contentID=1822
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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