Janet Kopenhaver, president of Eye on Washington, recently completed a statistical research project for Federally Employed Women (FEW). After drafting and distributing a press release on the data she was contacted by the producers of Wolf Blitzer's "The Situation Room" on CNN, who wanted to broadcast a story about the statistics. Janet then arranged for the vice president of FEW to be interviewed for the segment. View
Eye on Washington president Janet Kopenhaver and her client, Patricia Wolfe ( past president of Federally Employed Women), appeared on Washington, DC television to discuss the organization's legislative agenda. View an excerpt.
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10/25/10 Eye on Washington's President Janet Kopenhaver is interviewed on Federal News Radio following the publication of a Legislator Scorecard for the 111th Congress released by the company for a client. More
01/15/10 Eye on Washington's President, Janet Kopenhaver, in her capacity as the Washington representative for Federally Employed Women (FEW), was interviewed on the "Federal Drive" radio show (co-hosted by Jane Norris and Tom Temin) about a recently released position paper on pay-for-performance personnel systems. More
In another interview on the same show, Janet Kopenhaver discussed FEW's Legislative Agenda and top Legislative Priorities for the second session of the 111th Congress.
Janet Kopenhaver was interviewed on WFED radio following the release of a position paper she wrote on a proposal to implement federal government-wide personnel system changes. The paper was also delivered to every legislator's office on Capitol Hill. January 20, 2006
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