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Madam Chair and Ranking Member Dent, thank you for allowing me to share some thoughts on checkpoint security. As National President of NTEU, I represent thousands of TSOs at over 40 airports. Many of my members came to TSA when it was created, not long after 9/11. They came to TSA because they wanted to help keep this country safe. Despite the many ...

Chairman Lewis, Ranking Member Boustany, and distinguished members of the Subcommittee, I would like to thank you for allowing me to provide comments on the Administration’s FY 2011 budget request for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). As President of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU), I have the honor of representing over 150,000 federal workers ...

Chairman Lynch, Ranking Member Chaffetz and other subcommittee Members, thank you for the opportunity to testify on recent developments and plans for the future at the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board. In 1983, Congress decided to include federal employees in Social Security and set about designing a new retirement system around that notion. In ...

Chairman Lynch, Ranking Member Chaffetz, and distinguished members of the Subcommittee, on behalf of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU), I would like to thank you for allowing me to provide comments on H.R. 4735 which would require the federal government to fire workers who fail to pay their taxes and prohibit job applicants with serious tax issues ...

Chairman Serrano, Ranking Member Emerson, and distinguished members of the Subcommittee, I would like to thank you for allowing me to provide comments on the Administration’s FY 2011 budget request for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). As President of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU), I have the honor of representing over 150,000 federal workers ...

Mr. Chairman, and Ranking Member Rogers, as President of the National Treasury Employees Union, I would like to lend our support for the additional positions called for in the FY 2011 administration budget proposal. Additional technology at the airports will require additional Transportation Security Officers (TSOs), especially in those airports where staffing ...

Chairman Lynch, Ranking Member Chaffetz, and distinguished members of the Subcommittee, I would like to thank you for allowing me to provide comments on federal employee workplace safety and security. As President of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU), I have the honor of representing over 150,000 federal workers in 31 federal agencies and ...

Chairman Thompson, Ranking Member King, distinguished members of the Committee; I would like to thank the Committee for the opportunity to provide this testimony. As President of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU), I have the honor of leading a union that represents hundreds of thousands of federal worker including thousands of Transportation ...

Chairman Lewis, Ranking Member Ramstad, and distinguished members of the Subcommittee, I would like to thank you for allowing me to provide comments on IRS operations and the tax gap. As President of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU), I have the honor of representing over 150,000 federal workers in 30 agencies including the men and women at the ...

Chairman Baucus, Ranking Member Grassley, and distinguished members of the Committee, I would like to thank you for allowing me to provide comments on the 2007 Tax Filing Season and the Administration’s FY ’08 budget request for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). As President of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU), I have the honor of representing ...

Chairman Cherecwich, Members of the Board, and other distinguished guests, my name is Colleen Kelley and I am the National President of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU). As you know, NTEU represents some l50,000 federal employees in 31 federal agencies and departments, including the men and women who work at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). I ...

Chairman Serrano, Ranking Member Regula, and distinguished members of the Subcommittee, I would like to thank you for allowing me to provide comments on the Administration’s FY ’08 budget request for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). As President of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU), I have the honor of representing over 150,000 federal workers ...

Thank you Chairman Lynch for this opportunity to present the views of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) on HR 2517, the Domestic Partner Benefits and Obligations Act of 2009. NTEU is the nation’s largest independent federal sector labor union, representing workers at 31 government agencies. For over 70 years our union has been in the forefront of ...

Chairman Akaka, Ranking Member Voinovich, distinguished members of the Subcommittee; I would like to thank the Subcommittee for the opportunity to provide this testimony. As President of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU), I have the honor of leading a union that represents thousands of Transportation Security Officers (TSOs) at the Department of ...

Chairman Davis, Ranking Member Marchant, and members of the Subcommittee, I appreciate the opportunity to appear again before this distinguished subcommittee to discuss the important subject of federal pay systems. As you know, the National Treasury Employees Union represents more than 150,000 federal employees in over 30 different agencies and departments ...

Chairman Tanner, Ranking Member Brady, distinguished members of the Committee, thank you for the opportunity to provide this testimony. As President of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU), I have the honor of leading a union that represents over 24,000 Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Officers, Agriculture Specialists and trade enforcement and ...

Chairman Akaka, Ranking Member Voinovich, and distinguished members of the Subcommittee, I would like to thank you for allowing me to provide comments on efforts to right size the Federal employee to contractor mix. As President of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU), I have the honor of representing over 150,000 federal workers in 31 federal ...

Chairman Lynch, Representative Chaffetz and members of the subcommittee, I am pleased to be here today to talk about the pressing challenges facing our government in its effort to obtain additional talented individuals to join our federal workforce for the 21st century. As president of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU), representing more than ...

Chairman Lynch, on behalf of the 150,000 federal workers represented by the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU), I would like to thank you for holding this hearing and for inviting me to testify on the important issue of the use of temporary employees by the federal government. While temporary employment status can be of great use to an agency when ...

Madam Chair, thank you for allowing me to offer a statement at today’s important hearing about the Transportation Security Administration. As National President of the National Treasury Employees Union, I represent several thousand Transportation Security Administration Officers at TSA. The problems that were anticipated when TSA was created in a hurry ...