Managing Diversity of Senior Leadership in the Federal Workforce and the Postal Service

The Senate Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia and the House Subcommittee on the Federal Workforce, Postal Service, and the District of Columbia will hold a joint hearing. The hearing will examine diversity in the Senior Executive Service (SES) of the federal government and S. 2148/H.R. 3774, the Senior Executive Diversity Assurance Act of 2007. The Government Accountability Office will present findings from its ongoing report evaluating diversity in the SES, and the Office of Personnel Management will discuss its efforts to improve the diversity of the SES. Also, the hearing will examine diversity in the senior ranks of the Postal Career Executive Service, and the equivalent career executive positions in the Postal Regulatory Commission, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service and the U.S. Postal Service Office of the Inspector General.