Remove Repetitive Ideas
Remove new ideas, which have already been submitted by other person(s), to allow easier access to voting on recomendations. It is hard to follow 4000+ submissions when several are addressed repetitiously.
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This idea is active.Increasing Trade, Exports, and Overall Competitiveness »2 comments for Idea: Remove Repetitive Ideas -
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This idea is active.Ideas to Make Other Parts of Government More Efficient and Effective »Don't Borrow Federal Retirement Funds
Do not allow the Treasury Department to borrow money from Federal Retirement Funds. Removing money from any fund in the TSP will result in losses and could potentially have direct impacts on retirement funds. Stating "TSP participants should have nothing to worry about" does not guarantee there will be no impact. Even if they paid back the borrowed amount plus interest, where would we get back our "earnings" for the ...more »
3 comments for Idea: Don't Borrow Federal Retirement FundsDo not allow the Treasury Department to borrow money from Federal Retirement Funds. Removing money from any fund in the TSP will result in losses and could potentially have direct impacts on retirement funds. Stating "TSP participants should have nothing to worry about" does not guarantee there will be no impact. Even if they paid back the borrowed amount plus interest, where would we get back our "earnings" for the amount? We would be out that much more money in a so-called "no-risk" account.
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This idea is active.Ideas to Make Other Parts of Government More Efficient and Effective »Recycling
1 comment for Idea: RecyclingRequire Federal prisons to recycle all renewable energy sources. This would include cardboard, aluminum, plastics, paint, oil, grease, etc.
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This idea is active.Ideas to Make Other Parts of Government More Efficient and Effective »Force Cogress to Pass a Workable Budget
1 comment for Idea: Force Cogress to Pass a Workable BudgetMake Congress responsible by forcing them to pass a budget in a timely manner and which reduces the federal deficit.
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This idea is active.Ideas to Make Other Parts of Government More Efficient and Effective »TSP & Sick Leave / Annual Leave
2 comments for Idea: TSP & Sick Leave / Annual LeaveAllow employees to use unused sick leave / annual leave to contribute to their TSP account. For example, allow a staff member to eschange one hour of sick leave or annual to contribute one hour of pay to his/her TSP account. This would be an incentive for not calling in sick. Annual leave could be cashed in at a rate of hour per hour.
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This idea is active.Increasing Trade, Exports, and Overall Competitiveness »Chinese Import/Export Safety
2 comments for Idea: Chinese Import/Export SafetyRequire China to certify all imported/exported goods to the US are lead free, especially items geared towards children. Items to be certified should include toys and jewelry. If exported goods are found to contain unsafe levels of lead, restrict and/or fine the Chinese government to alleviate this practice.
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This idea is active.Ideas to Make Other Parts of Government More Efficient and Effective »Inmate Health Care Costs
2 comments for Idea: Inmate Health Care CostsRequire inmate familities to pay for the Health Care of inmates if they are financially able to do so. This may include insuring the inmate on family plans.
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This idea is active.Ideas to Make Other Parts of Government More Efficient and Effective »Inmate Idleness
1 comment for Idea: Inmate IdlenessWe keep talking about finding work for inmates to do to keep idleness to a minimum. Some assignments could be for shing shoes for staff, operating dry cleaning services for staff uniforms, using inmates to refinish/refurbish employee furniture, etc. Staff could kick in a specified dollar amount, some of which pays the inmate, and the remainder would go to an employee fund.
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This idea is active.Ideas to Make Other Parts of Government More Efficient and Effective »Push (REEL) Mowers for Inmates
A solution to save on fuel costs would be for Institutions to use push mowers instead of gasoline operated mowers. Not only does the government save money for fuel and maintenancer, but inmates are afforded health benefits by pushing the mowers, maintaining their physical fitness. Additionally, the environmental impact is aided in less carbon emisions. The cost of a gas powered mower is around 3 to 4 times what a manual ...more »
11 comments for Idea: Push (REEL) Mowers for InmatesA solution to save on fuel costs would be for Institutions to use push mowers instead of gasoline operated mowers. Not only does the government save money for fuel and maintenancer, but inmates are afforded health benefits by pushing the mowers, maintaining their physical fitness. Additionally, the environmental impact is aided in less carbon emisions. The cost of a gas powered mower is around 3 to 4 times what a manual push mower would cost. Also, the maintenance for a manual push mower is 10% of maintaining a gas powered mower.
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This idea is active.Ideas to Make Other Parts of Government More Efficient and Effective »Inmate Work Assignments
1 comment for Idea: Inmate Work AssignmentsRequire inmates to submit resumes for work assignments they are interested in being assigned to. This would allow staff to determine the qualifications the inmate has for a particular work assignment, as wel as providing the inmate a source to expound on his writing skills to become a productive member of society upon release.
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This idea is active.Ideas to Make Other Parts of Government More Efficient and Effective »Reduce Wait Time for Retirement Pay
2 comments for Idea: Reduce Wait Time for Retirement PayWith the growing number of FERS employees retiring or becoming eligible to retire, a system for checks and balances needs to be addressed to ensure retirees begin receiving their full entitlements within the first six months of retirement. This would limit the need for retirees to seek new employment and/or outside help.
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This idea is active.Increasing Trade, Exports, and Overall Competitiveness »Push Mowers
2 comments for Idea: Push MowersA solution to save on fuel costs would be for Institutions to use push mowers instead of gasoline operated mowers. Not only does the government save money for fuel and maintenancer, but inmates are afforded health benefits by pushing the mowers, maintaining their physical fitness. Additionally, the environmental impact is aided in less carbon emisions.
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This idea is active.Ideas to Make Other Parts of Government More Efficient and Effective »Inmate Restitution Collections
1 comment for Idea: Inmate Restitution CollectionsWhen inmates are imposed restitution by the Courts, a percentage of all inmate pay (to include monetary funds received from outside sources) should be automatically applied to the balance, unless the inmate is indigent. There are too many instances where inmates allow staff to believe they do not have funds, only to go to commissary and spend large sums for convenience items.
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This idea is active.Ideas to Make Other Parts of Government More Efficient and Effective »Electronic Lieutenant Logs
2 comments for Idea: Electronic Lieutenant LogsIncorporate Desk Top icons for institutions to allow Lieutenants to save the Daily Log. All other staff would be able to review the Logs and not change the information.
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This idea is active.Ideas to Make Other Parts of Government More Efficient and Effective »Electronic Call-Outs
1 comment for Idea: Electronic Call-OutsPlace the daily call-outs on all computer Desk Tops in lieu of hard copies. This would eliminate the use of copy paper, toner, staples and the shredding of several reams of paper per week. Detail supervisors would be able to check call-outs more effedctively.
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This idea is active.Ideas to Make Other Parts of Government More Efficient and Effective »Electronic Post Orders
I would like to incorporate a procedure to place Correctional Services Post Orders on computer Desk Top for staff to review. The Post Orders would include the 1st 4 sections. The Signature Sheets would still be maintained both on-site and in the Captain's Office. Hard copies would be required for posts not having computer access. The cost savings would be for paper, printers, copiers, toner and the time necessary ...more »
6 comments for Idea: Electronic Post OrdersI would like to incorporate a procedure to place Correctional Services Post Orders on computer Desk Top for staff to review. The Post Orders would include the 1st 4 sections. The Signature Sheets would still be maintained both on-site and in the Captain's Office. Hard copies would be required for posts not having computer access. The cost savings would be for paper, printers, copiers, toner and the time necessary to print and copy and replace each quarter. This could be extended to all Bureau of Prison facilities.
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