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President Barack Obama will sign into law Monday legislation giving tax breaks to companies that hire unemployed veterans.
Dr. Winslow Sargeant will be the new chief counsel for advocacy of the Small Business Administration.
An amendment to the 2012 Defense Authorization Bill would cap taxpayer-funded contractor compensation at $400,000. Under current executive compensation limits set in 1998, contractors can charge up to $693,951 for the salaries of their top five executives.
Despite the successful passage last week of a small group of annual spending bills covering several federal agencies\' 2012 budgets, Congress will likely fold the remaining bills into a single omnibus.
John Hutton is Director of Acquisition and Sourcing Management Issues at the Government Accountability Office
The Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act of 2011 was the logical next step after the repeal of the Don\'t Ask Don\'t Tell policy, which banned gays from openly serving in the military, said committee chairman and bill co-sponsor Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) in a statement.
Stan Collender, a budget expert and partner at Qorvis Communications, said nobody should panic just yet about possible automatic, across-the- board cuts. They won't be enacted immediately, he told the Federal Drive with Tom Temin and Amy Morris. And Congress could still wiggle out of them.
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A government shutdown was averted Thursday when Congress approved a compromise spending bill. The bill funds the departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Transportation, HUD, Justice, and some smaller agencies through the end of the fiscal year. The rest of the government will operate on another short-term continuing resolution, which will expire Dec. 16.
The House and the Senate voted to approve appropriations bills for Agriculture; Commmerce, Justice and Science agencies; and the Departments of Transportation and Housing and Urban Development. Taken together this is the \"minibus.\"
Procurement experts say the increased use of this punishment is the \"death penalty\" for the vendors. Lawmakers say agencies need penalize bad actors more aggressively.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) says the issue will come up during the first work period of the new year.
Rich Stana is director of Homeland Security and Justice Issues at the Government Accountability Office.
Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae came under fire from the House Oversight and Reform Committee on Wednesday for awarding millions of dollars to executives. The hearing came just a day after the House Financial Services Committee passed a bill to convert execs' pay to the federal pay system.