Federal employees conceived 38,484 ways to cut the federal budget during a month-long contest that ended last week, Office of Management and Budget officials said on Monday.
The Obama administration in November will award the worker with the best idea a meeting with the president and inclusion of the line item in his fiscal 2011 budget request. The brainstorming began in September on SAVEAward.gov, a secured Web site overseen by OMB that protected contestants' from their bosses' judgments. SAVE stands for Securing Americans Value and Efficiency. Employees were encouraged to submit more than one proposal.
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Hopefully #1 is "Fire GovTrip."
Andy Neilsen 10/27/09 08:03 am ET
Unfortunately, saving money is not sufficient justification to ignore appropriations law. Undoubtedly, many of these savings suggestions will seek to undo what Congress dodo. Remember a few years back when OMB tried to bypass Government Printing Office (GPO)and tell Executive Branch agencies to do printing someplace else if it was cheaper than GPO? Agencies are "captive" in many respects to the laws...regardless what we think about them.
John Herko 10/20/09 01:30 pm ET
So, OMB is going to spend a month reviewing 34,000 suggestions and pick the best one. If it cna do that, why does OMB take forever to approve routine agency requests?
miklosis 10/20/09 07:22 am ET