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Congress is telling the Defense Department to take a new look at the way it makes decisions about buying big business systems. DoD\'s deputy chief management officer will take the lead in this effort.
Tom Shoop, the editor-in-chief of Government Executive, joined In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss new ways federal pay and benefits could be on the chopping block.
President Barack Obama signed a bill Tuesday authorizing federal agencies to present an American flag to the families of federal employees killed in the line of duty.
Davita Vance-Cooks will be the acting chief of the Government Printing Office.
Among the report\'s outline of wasteful spending were more than $35 million in wasteful spending on political conventions, $14 million on an Air Force green construction project that was victim to \"poor planning,\" and $4.68 billion identified by the final report of the Commission on Wartime Contracting on contracting waste in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The House has blocked the Senate\'s version of a two-month payroll tax cut extension.
Julie Tagen, legislative director for the National Association of Active and Retired Federal Employees, told Federal News Radio that certain provisions in the bill would affect federal employees.
Federal employees were safe from another year of a pay freeze and changes to their annuity formula in the two-month payroll tax cut bill passed by the Senate this weekend. But now House Republican leaders are shunning the bipartisan bill, wanting to write their own version.
Senate leaves town without confirming nomination of 26th public printer. Boarman is unclear why his nomination has stalled.
Did it ever occur to you that the well known \"Mess In Washington\" may partially be your fault. As in, who represents you in the House and Senate, and how did they get here, Senior Correspondent Mike ponders.
The Senate passed the megabus spending bill by a vote of 67-32 Saturday.
Federal employees have dodged a bullet...for now. Congress will not freeze federal pay or change the annuity formula to pay for the two-month extension of the payroll tax cut.
After weeks of congressional negotiation and outright quarreling, a deal has emerged to provide 2012 funding for government operations. Follow the 2012 spending levels that came out of the latest funding fracas. Agency-by agency, track what\'s getting cut and where.
After seven short-term spending bills and three threats of a government shutdown this calendar year, Congress is ready to pass a spending deal with a Friday midnight deadline. But today\'s expected passage of an omnibus spending bill for fiscal year 2012, which started Oct. 1, is not the end of federal managers\' budget worries.