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GAO-04-617R 1 (2004-04-30)

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         April 30, 2004

         The Honorable George V. Voinovich
         Chairman
         The Honorable Richard Durbin
         Ranking Minority Member
         Subcommittee on Oversight of Government
         Management, the Federal Workforce, and the
         District of Columbia
         Committee on Governmental Affairs
         United States Senate

         The Honorable Jo Ann Davis
         Chairwoman
         The Honorable Danny Davis
         Ranking Minority Member
         Subcommittee on Civil Service and
         Agency Organization
         Committee on Government Reform
         United States House of Representatives

         Subject: Additional Posthearing Questions Related to Proposed Department of
                 Homeland Security (DHS) Human Capital Regulations

         On February 25, 2004, I testified before your subcommittees at a hearing entitled The
         Key to Homeland Security: The New Human Resources System.' I provided
         responses to an initial set of questions in correspondence dated March 22, 2004.2
         This report responds to your request that I provide answers to additional posthearing
         questions posed by Senator Akaka and Senator Lautenberg. The questions and
         responses follow.

         Questions from Senator Akaka

         1. In your written testimony, you recommend giving members of the internal
            appeals panel, rather than the Secretary, the authority to remove their
            fellow panel members for inefficiency. However, you are silent on the

         'U.S. General Accounting Office, Human Capital: Preliminary Observations on Proposed DHS
         Human Capital Regulations, GAO-04-479T (Washington, D.C.: Feb. 25, 2004).
         'U.S. General Accounting Office, Posthearing Questions Related to Proposed Department of
         Homeland Security (DHS) Human Capital Regulations, GAO-04-570R (Washington, D.C.: Mar. 22,
         2004).


GAO-04-617R DHS Human Capital Reform

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