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Dear ASA Members, 

The Office of Management issued a Federal Register Notice on Wednesday titled, "Improving Performance, Accountability and Responsiveness in the Civil Service": https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/04/23/2025-06904/improving-performance-accountability-and-responsiveness-in-the-civil-service. The rule "lets policy-influencing positions be moved into Schedule Policy/Career" (formerly known as Schedule F), which means those filling the positions will serve at will. 

The ASA will be providing a response and we ask for your input. We also encourage individual response from ASA members who are not employed by the federal government. Please share via email to me (spierson@amstat.org) any talking points you recommend for the ASA response by Monday, May 5.

Best,

Steve

 

 

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Steve Pierson
Director of Science Policy
American Statistical Association
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If you want your fellow gov't employee to tell you what this means, it boils down to I could be fired for registering and donating to candidates with different ideologies from those of the current administration, and those donations are public. I did give my response already. 

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Theresa Y Kim, PhD, MS (she/her)
theresa.kim@nih.gov
Health Systems and Pragmatic Clinical Studies Program Officer
National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Aging
Bethesda, MD
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The due date for public comments on the federal register is TOMORROW (May 23, 2025). PLEASE COMMENT. I'd really like to keep my job. You see as well that members of our board are also feds, and we are proud to serve our country. If you are a federal employee, please do not use your GFE, and please do not so during duty hours. 

Warmly,

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Theresa Y Kim, PhD, MS (she/her)
tyk314@proton.me
Health Systems and Pragmatic Clinical Studies Program Officer
National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Aging
Bethesda, MD
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Dear ASA Members, 

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Steve Pierson
Director of Science Policy
American Statistical Association
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Thank you, Steve!

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Lauren Samuels
Research Assistant Professor
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
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Original Message:
Sent: 05-27-2025 15:36
From: Steve Pierson
Subject: ASA response to Federal Register Notice: Improving Performance, Accountability and Responsiveness in the Civil Service

Dear ASA Members, 

Thank you for the great input on the Schedule Policy/Career/F proposed rule comments. The deadline was extended from Friday to June 7 and I submitted ASA's comments Monday: https://www.amstat.org/docs/default-source/amstat-documents/pol-schedule-policy_careernprm_astata_response.pdf. 

Best,

Steve

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Steve Pierson
Director of Science Policy
American Statistical Association
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