Nomination of Constance J. Horner: Hearing Before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred First Congress, Second Session, on the Nomination of Constance J. Horner, Under Secretary of Health and Human Services, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the National Consumer Cooperative Bank for a Term of 3 Years, Vice Ewen M. Wilson, July 27, 1990, Volume 4

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Page 49 - Act, without regard to the provisions of other laws applicable to the employment and compensation of officers and employees of the United States...
Page 49 - Corporation shall be entitled to the free use of the United States mails for its official business in the same manner as the executive departments of the Government, and shall determine its necessary expenditures under this...
Page 49 - ... employment, compensation, leave, and expenses shall be governed solely by the provisions of this Act, specific amendments thereof, and rules and regulations of the Board not inconsistent therewith; and funds derived from such assessments shall not be construed to be Government funds or appropriated moneys.
Page 41 - If the advantages enjoyed by the FRB, FDIC, and OCC in determining direct compensation and salary enhancements were not enough of a disparity, these agencies also provide benefit programs far more liberal than standard Government benefit programs available at the Bank Board. Employees in these agencies can choose life insurance and health programs (including dental and vision options) at no cost, or at very limited costs. Among these three agencies, the highest cost for life insurance is 7 cents...
Page 41 - The Bank Board suffers further disadvantages with regard to compensation enhancements. The FDIC, for example, annually grants each of its employees a regional pay differential over and above any Government-wide cost -of- living adjustment.
Page 63 - ... director of the US Office of Personnel Management, formerly the Civil Service Commission, August 1985-May 1989. Other positions Mrs. Horner has held include associate director for economics and government for the Office of Management and Budget; director of VISTA and acting associate director of ACTION; and deputy assistant director of ACTION for policy and planning. She has also served on the President's Commission on White House Fellowships and the President's Commission on Executive Exchange....
Page 63 - The principal agencies are the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration, the Ford Foundation.
Page 63 - Horner is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and holds a Master of Arts degree in English Literature from the University of Chicago.
Page 4 - I received a Bachelor's Degree from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Master's Degree from the University of Chicago.
Page 49 - provided in the case of members of the Board" (level IV of the executive schedule), a rate in excess of the maximum for GS18. The fact that rates of basic pay are authorized to be fixed at or in excess of the maximum for GS-18 does not necessarily mean that any or all employees' basic pay must be set at that rate.

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