Subcommittee Chair Leaves

Rep. Jo Ann Davis, R-Va., has given up the chairmanship of the House civil service subcommittee in order to take a post on an intelligence panel. Davis, who took over the panel last year, drew favorable reviews from federal employee organizations for working to put greater protections for employees into the revised personnel system for the Defense Department and for pushing issues such as reforms in hiring, law enforcement officer compensation, and for advocating expanded vision and dental care for federal employees. No replacement has been named. The subcommittee is expected to be relatively inactive for the remainder of the current Congress in any case, since all the civil service-related bills that are expected to move this year already have advanced beyond the subcommittee stage.