SENS. AKAKA, FEINSTEIN AND KERRY URGE VETERANS AFFAIRS SECRETARY TO END...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  July 10, 2008 ;     700+ words ......prohibition of voter registration at Department...conducting voter registration drives at...partisan voter registration activities...partisan voter registration activities...must support voter registration for veterans...Impeding voter ...

SENS. AKAKA, FEINSTEIN, KERRY URGE VETERANS AFFAIRS SECRETARY TO END...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  July 10, 2008 ;     700+ words ......prohibition of voter registration at Department...conducting voter registration drives at...partisan voter registration activities...partisan voter registration activities...must support voter registration for veterans...Impeding voter ...

SECRETARY OF STATE REED AGAIN URGES POLICY CHANGE ON VOTER REGISTRATION...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  July 7, 2008 ;     372 words ......from assisting in voter registration drives and bars...from conducting voter registration drives. "The federal...patients in completing voter registration forms or ballots...directive that prohibits voter registration drives among veterans...violation of the federal ...

State officials protest ban on voter registration at VA facilities?

New Haven Register;  July 1, 2008 ;     674 words ......decision in part on the Hatch Act, which bans federal...going on to suppress voter registration," Bysiewicz, pointing...rective's reference to the Hatch Act should only apply...all its hospitals, voter registration agencies under the...

SECRETARY OF STATE REED ASKS FOR REVIEW OF BAN ON VOTER REGISTRATION...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  July 3, 2008 ;     439 words ......not violate the Hatch Act," Reed said. "There...agencies conducting voter registration in a neutral way...was banning any voter registration efforts in its...mail-in or online voter registration prior to the August...

SCOPE OF HATCH ACT:JAMES BYRNE

Congressional Testimony;  October 18, 2007 ;     700+ words ......appear before this subcommittee to discuss the Hatch Act. It is also an honor to appear beside Chairman...Galindo- Marrone, who has been the Chief of OSC`s Hatch Act Unit since 2000. The Hatch Act restricts the political activity of employees...

SENS. FEINSTEIN, KERRY EXPRESS CONCERNS ABOUT APPARENT REVERSAL IN VA...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  May 8, 2008 ;     700+ words ......definition of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993. The Act requires states to offer voter registration opportunities at all offices...for services including voter registration. However, a federal appeals...court recently ruled that voter registration groups do ...

SENS. KERRY, FEINSTEIN DEMAND ANSWERS ABOUT VIRGINIA REVERSAL ON VOTER...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  May 8, 2008 ;     700+ words ......definition of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993. The Act requires states to offer voter registration opportunities at all offices...for services including voter registration. However, a federal appeals...court recently ruled that voter registration groups do ...

SCOPE OF HATCH ACT:CHAD BUNGARD

Congressional Testimony;  October 18, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Protection Board (MSPB) in enforcing the Hatch Act. The Subcommittee has asked me to address...Board`s processing and adjudication of Hatch Act cases; 2. The scope of the MSPB`s jurisdiction over Hatch Act cases; 3. The extent of the Board`s Hatch...

Revising the Hatch Act

The Washington Post;  March 4, 1988 ;     486 words ......least temporarily, while opponents of the Hatch Act look for a big name to carry the ball...skids. Previous efforts to "save" the Hatch Act centered on what effect revision would...prime movers in the effort to relax Hatch Act restrictions on political involvement...

Hatch Act Conviction Is Overturned; Leader of Government Union Was...

The Washington Post;  August 12, 1988 ;     255 words ......federal judge in Atlanta has thrown out the Hatch Act conviction of a union official here who...for 60 days in 1987 for violating the Hatch Act, which prohibits federal workers from...Systems Protection Board, which hears Hatch Act cases. "Congress and the Civil Service...

Remember to Keep Clear of the Hatch Act

The Washington Post;  May 9, 2004 ;     679 words ......might spend a few minutes reviewing the Hatch Act now. That sounds like silly advice. The...federal employee who doesn't know that the Hatch Act restricts the employee's political activities...Special Counsel announced a settlement in a Hatch Act case involving a federal executive ...

The Hatch Act: `A Tangled Jungle'

The Washington Post;  September 16, 1988 ;     653 words ......Kilpatrick is wrong is his estimation of the Hatch Act and its impact on federal employees' political activity {op-ed, Sept. 13}. The Hatch Act is broken and in urgent need of repair...now exist that did not in 1939 when the Hatch Act was passed. For example, federal workers...

Bill easing Hatch Act is vetoed

Chicago Sun-Times;  June 16, 1990 ;     338 words ......federal workers bill would amend the Hatch Act, the law that bars government employees...activity beyond voting. Changing the Hatch Act has been a popular cause among many of...federal workers have long argued that the Hatch Act is unfair because it bars federal workers...

The Hatch Act Hangs on

The Washington Post;  September 28, 1988 ;     499 words ......long have pushed for revision of the Hatch Act. For 50 years, it has kept U.S. workers...parts in partisan political campaigns. Hatch Act reformers want off-duty federal workers...congressional Democrats support reform of the Hatch Act-up to a point. Republicans typically...