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| 2609426 | 4f147b1c-3fcf-4e8d-987e-cf0f2c482f70 | Q1 | AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO | 54302 | AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO | 2021 | first_quarter | DEF | Lobbied on Department of Defense Senate Confirmed Nominations with Questions and Questions for Record and Proposed Advanced Policy Questions related to Secretary of Defense Austin and Deputy Secretary of Defense Hicks. Lobbied on the following issues for the Fiscal Year 2022 National Defense Authorization Act by requesting House Armed Services Committee and Senate Armed Services Committee Members submit Member Requests Amendments on the following issues: 1.Inclusion of language in the FY 2022 NDAA that clarifies the civilian personnel cap prohibition in Section 129 of title 10 by removing ambiguous and contradictory language and clarifying prohibitions against using erm or temporary hiring authorities for enduring functions. 2.Inclusion of language in the FY 2022 NDAA that requires compliance with contract service planning, programming, and budgeting statutory requirements and Total Force Management statutory limitations on privatization (including compliance with the public-private competition moratorium). 3.Inclusion of language in the FY 2022 NDAA that aligns the Federal Wage System Areas with General Schedule Locality Pay Areas. 4.Inclusion of language in the FY 2022 NDAA that requires compliance of Reductions in Force procedures under Section 3502 of Title 5 (Seniority, Veterans Preference, Performance) repealing inconsistent provisions included in Section 1597(f) of title 10, United States Code, enacted in section 1101 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016. 5.Inclusion of language in the FY 2022 NDAA that prohibits the downsizing of military medical treatment facilities by requiring Military Department Surgeon General Certifications and Government Accountability Office reviews addressing TRICARE quality of care standards and capacity; third party collections; readiness impacts; and efforts to backfill military structure with government civilian employees. 6.Inclusion of language in the FY 2022 prohibiting the merger of commissaries with exchanges, carrying forward and making permanent the prohibition in the FY 2021 NDAA. 7.Inclusion of language in the FY 2022 NDAA prohibiting global household goods contracts, repealing the authority for this exception to normal procurement practices and the public-private competition moratorium that was provided in Section 375 of the FY 2020 NDAA. 8.Inclusion of language in the FY 2022 NDAA clarifying governmental access to technical data for spare parts for major weapon systems, repealing Section 865 of the FY 2019 NDAA. 9.Inclusion of language in the FY 2022 NDAA to improve workforce planning for major weapon systems sustainment by mandating the manpower estimate requirement of the military civilian and contract support requirements for operating, maintaining, and sustaining major weapon systems, formerly required by Section 2434 of title 10 that was repealed in the FY 2017 NDAA. 10.Inclusion of language in the FY 2022 NDAA that would require reporting of borrowed military manpower, reviving the reporting requirement that was in Section 482 of title 10, prior to repeal in the FY 2013 NDAA. 11.Inclusion of language in the FY 2022 NDAA requiring a Government Accountability Office review on whether DoD security clearance determinations have been applied in a discriminatory manner. 12.Inclusion of language in the FY 2022 to provide paid family and medical leave to Federal employees by including care of a sick child, spouse, or parent. 13.Inclusion of language repealing Section 1599e of title 10 that provides a two-year probationary period to DoD employees as an exception to the one-year probationary period applicable across the rest of the federal government in sections 3321 and 3393(d) of title 5. Lobbied against proposals under consideration for the Fiscal Year 2022 National Defense Authorization Act from the Final Recommendations and Report of the National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service in the following sections: Subtitle C: Modernization of Federal Personnel System Sec. 344. Noncompetitive eligibility for high-performing civilian employees. Sec. 345. Flexibility for Temporary and Term Appointments. Sec. 346. Criteria for granting direct hire authority to agencies. Sec. 347. Cafeteria Plan for Federal Employees. Sec. 348. Modern Benefits Pilot Program. Sec. 349. Demonstration Project Flexibility for Office of Personnel Management. Sec. 350. Advanced Assessment Tools for Executive Agency Hiring. Sec. 351. Competency Standards for Human Resources Specialists for downsized HR offices to better service their customers. Sec. 352. Evaluation of Improvements to the Federal Civil Service Personnel System. Sec. 353. Proposals for Modern Talent Management System. Sec. 354. Annual Report on Blended Federal Workforce. Subtitle D: Students, Recent Graduates, and Critical Skills Sec. 361. Federal Fellowship and Scholarship Center. Sec. 362. Public Service Corps. Sec. 363. Public Service Academy Grants. Sec. 364. Public Service Cadet Programs at Military Service Academies. Sec. 366. Establishment of Pathways Program. Sec. 368. Aggregate Number of Hires of Recent College Graduates and Post-Secondary Students. Sec. 372. Civilian Cybersecurity Reserve Pilot Project. Sec. 374. Personnel Policy Demonstration Project for federal Agencies with Employees in STEM fields. Sec. 375. Development of proposal for simplified personnel system for Veterans Health Administration. Lobbied against the following proposals under consideration for the Fiscal Year 2022 National Defense Authorization Act from the Final Recommendations of the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence: 1.Part-time reserve digital service corps; and 2.Digital Academy as pathway into Civil Service. Lobbied against three proposals from industry coalitions related to commercial items determinations by contracting officers. Lobbied on the following issues for the Fiscal Year 2022 Defense Appropriation by requesting of House Appropriations Committee Subcommittee on Defense and Senate Appropriations Committee Subcommittee on Defense members that they submit the following amendment proposals for committee markup: 1.Reintroducing House section 8012 markup language from the FY 2021 Defense Appropriation that had been rendered ambiguous in Conference for the FY2021 Omnibus. 2.Inclusion of language in the FY 2022 Defense Appropriations bill that mandates compliance with contract service planning, programming, and budgeting statutory requirements and Total Force Management statutory limitations on privatization (including compliance with the public-private competition moratorium). 3.Inclusion of language in the FY 2022 Defense Appropriations bill that requires compliance of Reductions in Force with Section 3502 of Title 5, which provides for the order of retention for Reductions in Force in the following order: seniority, veterans preference, followed by the performance rating. 4.Inclusion of language in the FY 2022 Defense Appropriations bill prohibiting the downsizing of military medical treatment facilities. 5.Inclusion of language in the FY 2022 Defense Appropriations bill prohibiting the merger of commissaries and exchanges. 6.Inclusion of language in the FY 2022 Defense Appropriations bill prohibiting a global household goods contract. 7.Inclusion of language in the FY 2022 Defense Appropriations bill providing for temporary supplemental funding similar to language included by the House in the HEROES Act last year, for salaries and other needs for non-appropriated fund employees in child-care centers, lodges, food operations, exchanges and other recreational activities that are normally paid for by revenue generating accounts that have been detrimentally affected by the COVID-19 Pandemic. H.R. 1319, the "American Rescue Plan Act"--Lobbied for inclusion of emergency paid leave for frontline workers, presumption of workplace illness for purposes of workers compensation eligibility for frontline workers who contract Coronavirus, and opposed efforts to strip those provisions from the bill. Opposed efforts to reduce or eliminate official time, further privatize medical services at the Veterans Health Administration, further privatize federal prisons, deny recovery rebate payments to federal employees and their families, create a Schedule F class of federal employees who would have no job protections, reduce federal employees compensation and benefits, enact across-the-board cuts to federal programs, undermine Transportation Security Officers pay and benefits, further politicize the decision to relocate federal agencies and block District of Columbia residents from moving forward with statehood proceedings. | Agriculture, Dept of (USDA),Air Force, Dept of,Army, Dept of (Corps of Engineers),Army, Dept of (Other),Bureau of Citizenship & Immigration Services (BCIS),Commerce, Dept of (DOC),Defense Commissary Agency,Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA),Defense, Dept of (DOD),Defense Finance & Accounting Service (DFAS),Education, Dept of,Energy, Dept of,Environmental Protection Agency (EPA),Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA),General Services Administration (GSA),Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS),Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS),HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,Housing & Urban Development, Dept of (HUD),Interior, Dept of (DOI),Justice, Dept of (DOJ),Labor, Dept of (DOL),Natl Institutes of Health (NIH),Navy, Dept of,Office of Management & Budget (OMB),Office of Personnel Management (OPM),SENATE,Transportation, Dept of (DOT),Transportation Security Administration (TSA),U.S. Coast Guard (USCG),U.S. Customs & Border Protection,U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE),U.S. Marines,Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA),Voice of America | 399000 | 0 | 0 | 2021-04-20T09:34:46.917000-04:00 |