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Federal workers who made a difference

The 2017 winners of the Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medals

THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT GETS A BAD RAP: IT IS CONSTANTLY DESCRIBED AS BLOATED AND CLUNKY, ITS workers as inefficient and ineffectual. Yet by and large, the men and women who make up the federal workforce rise above the criticism, put one foot in front of the other and do their job. Rarely is the work they do acknowledged, much less praised. But for the past 16 years,

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