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If enacted, H.R. 2465 would make several changes to the Federal Employees\' Compensation Act, including allowing assistants and nurses to certify disabilities.
Health insurance expert Walton Francis joins host Mike Causey on today\'s program. He will help you navigate the \"best buys\" for singles, couples, large families, retirees with and without Medicare, and people who are taking risks by using their private sector spouses health plan.
President Obama has requested $166.5 million to fight computer crime over the next year, and Congress has approved every penny.
Todd Harrison, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin and Amy Morris to discuss how sequestration will affect defense managers and contractors. He said the threat of automatic, across-the-board cuts from sequestration will hang over DoD for the next year.
Bernie Becker, a staff writer for The Hill newspaper, joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin and Amy Morris to discuss the myriad budget uncertainties facing Congress and federal agencies.
Tom Shoop is the editor-in-chief of Government Executive.
Rep. Jim Moran (D-Va.) expressed frustration with the \"dysfunctional\" state of Congress today, blaming lawmakers who he said shouldn\'t be legislating in the first place.
A new report details how seven technology projects worth $5 billion found success. Auditors found program manager and user engagement is the one every initiative had in common.
Between ongoing 2012 budget negotiations and the automatic cuts triggered by the supercommittee, Steve Bell, senior director of the Bipartisan Policy Center\'s Economic Policy Project, says this is as good as it\'s going to get for federal employees for the foreseeable future.
The administration, lawmakers and others are sounding off on the failure of the supercommittee to reach a deal for cutting more than $1 trillion from the deficit. Facing automatic, across-the-board cuts — half from defense and half from civilian agencies, beginning in 2013 — the consensus now seems to be Congress should work to come up with an alternative deficit-reduction plan.
None of the legislation moving through Congress would provide the Postal Service the speed and flexibility it needs to cut annual costs by $20 billion, Postmaster General Pat Donahoe said Monday. He said they would give USPS \"a couple of years of profitability and at least many decades of steep losses.\" He argued for quicker resolution to the agency\'s cash crisis.
Admit it, have you been losing sleep over the activities of the congressional supercommittee? If not, you may be on the right track, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says.
President Obama said he would veto any efforts to undermine the automatic spending cuts that will go into effect because the debt reduction supercommittee failed to come up with a deal today.
CQ Roll Call reporter Meredith Shiner has an update on the supercommittee talks on its deadline day.