Pay-for-What?

Sen. Voinovich is making waves in his call for "pay-for-performance" to replace the traditional civil service for federal employees. What exactly does performance mean? How would the administration actually assess performance? We have some clues with the shoddy work they've been doing on assessing the performance of programs with the Program Assessment Rating Tool. OMB Watch just testified today about some of those problems -- check it out.
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