Congress

There’s only one question before Congress, at least this week

With the machinery already cranking up for a federal government shutdown, can Congress pull itself together to pass a continuing resolution? The situation…

Government Shutdown

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FILE - This June 21, 2013, file photo, shows the seal affixed to the front of the Department of Veterans Affairs building in Washington. In a federal lawsuit filed this week, U.S. Navy veteran from South Carolina says he ended up with “full-blown AIDS,” because government health care workers never informed him of his positive test result in 1995. He says the test was done as part of standard lab tests at a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs medical center in Columbia, South Carolina. A V.A. spokeswoman says the agency typically does not comment on pending litigation. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Letter to the editor: A government shutdown would be devastating to our veterans

Commentary

With House Republicans in turmoil, colleagues implore GOP holdouts not to shut down government

Government Shutdown

How bad would a government shutdown really be?

Government Shutdown

Resources to help you better understand a government shutdown

Government Shutdown

Government shutdown risk spikes as House Republicans leave town in disarray amid hard-right revolt

Government Shutdown

What happens to furloughed employees during a government shutdown?

Government Shutdown

The Capitol is seen in Washington, Monday, Sept. 20, 2021, as Congress returns to a busy schedule and Democratic lawmakers are laboring to shoulder President Joe Biden's massive $3.5 trillion

Congressmen raise concerns about child care during government shutdown

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Technology Modernization Fund getting a legislative facelift

Congress

The U.S. Capitol is seen in Washington, Tuesday, July 20, 2021. To enact President Joe Biden’s expansive domestic agenda this year, Democrats have mapped out a convoluted legislative maze. The party wants to push the new president's multitrillion-dollar plans for supercharging federal infrastructure, climate change and social programs through a Congress in which they have only paper-thin majorities. GOP opposition is certain to be solid. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Congress shoves that budget boulder uphill one inch at a time

Congress

telework, work from home, home office, federal employees

4 agencies answer House Oversight Committee’s calls for deeper federal telework data

Workforce

OPM aims to ‘clarify, reinforce’ protections against Schedule F, but some experts say it won’t be enough

The Office of Personnel Management issued a proposed rule aiming to reinforce merit system protections for feds in case of a possible return of Schedule…

Workforce

FILE - This March 27, 2008, file photo, shows the Pentagon in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Does the Pentagon skip too many of its congressional reporting duties?

The Defense Department is under statutory obligation to deliver a thousand reports to Congress each year. One analysis says the department consistently…

Defense

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IRS to remain ‘fully operational’ if Congress triggers government shutdown

Government Shutdown

The IRS is planning to remain “fully operational,” if Congress triggers a government shutdown at the end of this month.

Congress

There’s only one question before Congress, at least this week

Letter to the editor: A government shutdown would be devastating to our veterans

With House Republicans in turmoil, colleagues implore GOP holdouts not to shut down government

How bad would a government shutdown really be?

Resources to help you better understand a government shutdown

Government shutdown risk spikes as House Republicans leave town in disarray amid hard-right revolt

What happens to furloughed employees during a government shutdown?

Congressmen raise concerns about child care during government shutdown

Technology Modernization Fund getting a legislative facelift

Congress shoves that budget boulder uphill one inch at a time

4 agencies answer House Oversight Committee’s calls for deeper federal telework data

OPM aims to ‘clarify, reinforce’ protections against Schedule F, but some experts say it won’t be enough

Does the Pentagon skip too many of its congressional reporting duties?

IRS to remain ‘fully operational’ if Congress triggers government shutdown

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