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• COBERT RECEIVES RENEWED SUPPORT FOR CONFIRMATION AT OPM - June 9, 2016

• Senators Push for Acting OPM Director’s Confirmation

  By Eric Katz, Government Executive

  A group of lawmakers is renewing a push to make the acting head of the Office of Personnel Management its official, confirmed chief, noting her nomination has languished for seven months.

  Both Maryland’s Senate delegation -- Barbara Mikulski and Ben Cardin -- and Virginia’s -- Tim Kaine and Mark Warner -- all Democrats, wrote a letter to Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., asking him to bring Beth Cobert’s nomination to a vote. Cobert was named acting director in July 2015, nominated by President Obama in November and approved by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee in February.

  To read the full article, please click here.

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