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Justin Johnson, senior policy analyst for defense budgeting policy at the Heritage Foundation, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin the crucial partnership on military basics between the Defense Department and Congress is badly frayed, and the military will be the worse for it.
The Project on Government Oversight took a deep dive into a fellowship program that doesn’t get too much attention and made recommendations to Congress about the program. Federal News Radio contacted individual members of Congress, the House Rules Committee and the Senate Ethics Committee. Some declined to comment, while others did not respond in time for the story. Federal News Radio’s Scott Maucione spoke with Lydia Dennett, an investigator at POGO, on Federal Drive with Tom Temin about what POGO found.
With 31 percent of the federal workforce eligible to retire by September 2019, most agencies acknowledge they're racing against the clock to recruit and hire the next generation of federal employees. But repeat, persistent challenges are preventing them from recruiting new, young talent, agency chief human capital officers say.
Congress bought itself more time to work out a fiscal 2017 budget by passing a continuing resolution, but an intractable fight remains on the defense spending front.
A prominent Republican on the House Armed Services Committee is the newest lawmaker to ask the White House for a budget request to pay for additional troops in Afghanistan.
President Barack Obama signed the continuing resolution Thursday, which Congress passed yesterday. The measure keeps the government functioning through Dec. 9.
The Senate twice failed to approve a cloture vote on Sept. 27 to stop debate on the short-term continuing resolution attached to a House bill which lawmakers are using as the legislative vehicle to fund the government and avert a government shutdown. The vote would have officially ended debate on the continuing resolution, allowing a final passage vote on the bill.
Congressional leaders have broken a stalemate over money to address the Flint, Michigan, water crisis, top House aides said Wednesday, clearing the way for a spending bill needed to keep the government running until December.
The Coalition of Defense and Space Industry Associations, which includes six large industry groups, wrote to the FAR Council asking for the final rule implementing the President’s executive order requiring vendors to disclose violations of 14 labor laws to be pushed out another year.
Rather than outsource the work of delinquent tax collection, thousands of IRS employees set to lose their jobs in the next eight years could be retrained on how to do the work.
The possibility of a government shutdown is again up in the air. A week ago, it looked liked a continuing resolution was in the bag. Maybe we thought too fast. With this week's update, and deadline of Friday night, Federal Drive with Tom Temin checks in with David Hawkings, senior editor at Roll Call.
Not many bills pass the House unanimously. But this one did and in the Senate. It would make federal agencies help native American tribes establish the infrastructure they need to support rising tourism. Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) sponsored the Native American Tourism and Improving Visitor Experience tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin what the bill would do.
Living in the Washington, D.C. area is like being in a bull's eye. What scares locals the most? Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says it's a five-day congressional work week.
DoD shuffled some funds around this summer to give some IC cyber projects a funding bump.