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Senior Correspondent Mike Causey asks, do partisan D.C. parents really keep kids in line by threatening to send them to summer camps run by the NRA or the ACLU?
November 03, 2015 -
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Congress is figuring out which programs will feel the pain of a $5 billion cut to defense spending so the plan can fit the new budget deal. House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) said the cuts will affect important programs.
November 02, 2015 -
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Today is another signature day at the White House. President Barack Obama will likely sign the two-year budget deal OMB Director Shaun Donovan negotiated with leaders from the House and Senate. That doesn't mean though that agencies are out of the woods yet. David Hawkings, senior editor at CQ Roll Call, fills in the details for In Depth with Francis Rose.
November 02, 2015 -
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When President Barack Obama vetoed the annual defense authorization bill earlier this month, most of the attention was on overall federal spending levels and restrictions on closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay. But in a recent column for Forbes, Charles Tiefer points out that the President raised a lot of other objections having to do with wasteful spending and Congress' ongoing refusal to authorize another round of base closures. Tiefer, a professor of law at the University of Baltimore, told In Depth with Francis Rose the other issues in the President's veto message deserve more public attention than they've gotten.
October 30, 2015 -
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Casey Kelley, John Cavadias and Richard Blake, members of GSA's Alliant 2 management team will discuss the program's overall acquisition strategy and goals. October 27, 2015
October 29, 2015 -
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Congress will rework the Defense authorization act to conform to budget deal parameters if it cannot garner enough votes to override the President’s veto.
October 29, 2015 -
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The Marine Corps’ Deputy Commandant said the investments in cyber and information warfare will make up for fewer Marines.
October 28, 2015 Katie Maddocks with the Federal Managers Association joins host Mike Causey to talk about the chances of a government shutdown, and legislation pending in Congress that would affect federal workers. October 28, 2015
October 27, 2015-
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OPM issued a final rule on behalf of the Federal Salary Council approving 13 new areas. But the updates will not be final until President Barack Obama signs an executive order.
October 27, 2015 -
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House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) wants to make one last budget deal before he leaves Congress at the end of the week. The two-year deal is expected to designate increases in defense spending as Overseas Contingency Operations funds, and would boost civilian agency spending as well, though not at the levels President Barack Obama requested.
October 26, 2015 -
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Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) told the Federal Drive with Tom Temin that averting a government shutdown on Dec. 11 weighs heavily on minds as the House mulls its options for a new speaker.
October 23, 2015 -
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Testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee, former Defense Secretary Robert Gates acknowledged the rationale for reforms which centralized big decisions within the DoD acquisition system.
October 22, 2015 -
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The annual National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) Congress sent to President Barack Obama on Tuesday contains nearly 100 separate provisions intended to reform the Defense Department's acquisition system. But that’s just the start, say Capitol Hill’s top two Defense legislators.
October 20, 2015 Would you rather be attacked and eaten by a great white shark, a saltwater crocodile or a hungry tiger? It's your call. The you-must-choose game is one my kids played with me when they were younger, and now federal workers get to play — or rather be pawns in — a version of that no-win game every couple of years when shutdowns are on the table.
October 20, 2015
