On February 12, 2008, Partnership for Public Service President and CEO, Max Stier ,testified before the House Subcommittee on the Federal Workforce, Postal Service and the District of Columbia about the Bush administration’s pay for performance policies. Stier focused on how to use pay as an incentive to create a higher performing work environment in federal agencies. Informed by the Partnership’s Best Places to Work in the Federal Government research and a recent survey of federal chief human capital officers, Stier laid out a series of recommendations for effectively implementing a pay for performance system.