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The military's focus on present operations is letting future readiness languish, Marine Corps and Army officials told Congress.
Rep. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) on Dec. 1 introduced a bill that would give federal retirees and Americans receiving Social Security benefits a one-time cost-of-living adjustment in 2016 equal to a 3.9 percent increase for most recipients.
This year’s tree came from the Chugach National Forest in Alaska, traveling more than 4,000 miles before making its final journey to the Capitol’s West Lawn.
Four Republican congressmen are urging the Government Accountability Office to review the practice of hiring political appointees into career federal civil service positions.
The House passed a bill on Monday that formally authorizes the Department of Homeland Security to train state and local law enforcement officials in counter-cyber crime techniques.
They arrived in town yesterday, but today members of Congress get down to real work. But what's real all depends. If you care about establishment of a federal budget for fiscal 2016, you may have to wait a few days. David Hawkings, senior editor at CQ Roll Call, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin about another issue that's first in line on the agenda.
Clark Campbell, vice president of Public Sector at BDNA, joins host John Gilroy to discuss how how his company can help federal agencies achieve the goals of FITARA. December 1, 2015
Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) continues where his predecessor former Sen. Tom Coburn left off. Lankford identified 100 examples of wasteful and fraudulent federal programs and processes in his first ever wastebook.
Congress is tied up in knots debating the Syrian refugee questions and other things like cybersecurity. With a fast-approaching deadline for funding the government, Dec. 11, to be exact, the question is whether Congress will finish its budget work on time. Federal Drive host Tom Temin asked CQ Roll Call senior editor David Hawkings if other matters were crowding out the crucial budget.
Given the VA's past performance, the House Veterans Affairs Committee said it's worried about the implementation, timeline and budget for the new Veterans Choice Program. The VA said it will tap into the expertise of private medical providers to help meet the growing demand for veterans health care.
The two-year budget deal agreed to by Congress has left DoD in a hole for its 2017 budget planning.
The former heads of the Internal Revenue Service have written to Congress, telling them that after five straight years of budget cuts, enough is enough.
The Internal Revenue Service has been operating on a shrinking budget for the last five years. Congress has taken it down a total $1.2 billion, or 17 percent. That means fewer and fewer workers are getting the job done. Larry Gibbs is a member of the Miller and Chevalier law firm and an IRS commissioner under the Reagan administration. He tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin about his experience as one of seven former commissioners who signed a letter to Congress this month saying enough is enough.
The Defense Department is spending more money and getting less out of it, defense analysts told Congress.