Budget
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Robert Dacey, the Government Accountability Office\'s chief accountant, breaks down the reasons why GAO was unable to render an opinion on the federal government\'s consolidated financial report.
December 28, 2011 -
Sales guru and best selling author Harvey Mackay talks about his new book when he joins host Mark Amtower on today\'s program. December 26, 2011
December 26, 2011 -
Meredith Shiner, Senate reporter at CQ Roll Call, tells In Depth with Francis Rose about what this extension means for you.
December 23, 2011 -
With no end to lawmakers\' fedbashing in sight, the American Federation of Government Employees is looking forward to 2012\'s presidential and Congressional elections. \"Federal workers are a sane, responsible group of citizens. They vote in big numbers,\" AFGE President John Gage told Federal News Radio.
December 23, 2011 -
The Government Accountability Office said it cannot render an opinion on the federal government\'s 2011 consolidated financial statements due to \"widespread material internal control weaknesses, significant uncertainties, and other limitations,\" according to a GAO release.
December 23, 2011 -
David Berteau, senior vice president and director of the International Security Program and Ryan Crotty, a research associate with the CSIS Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group, joined Francis Rose for Pentagon Solutions. According to their research, the effect of sequestration on the defense budget may not be as catastrophic as Pentagon leaders have conjectured.
December 21, 2011 -
Erik Wasson is a staff writer with The Hill.
December 21, 2011 -
Retaining good employees in spite of pay freezes and cuts to employee benefits will be the biggest challenge facing agency human resources officials next year. Federal News Radio asked chief human capital officers to reflect on 2011 and make predictions for 2012.
December 20, 2011 -
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.
December 20, 2011 -
The House has blocked the Senate\'s version of a two-month payroll tax cut extension.
December 20, 2011 -
The Government Accountability and Transparency Board submitted its first report to President Barack Obama last week highlighting oversight and accountability initiatives that could be used by more agencies. The Recovery Board is testing a new site to bring together analytical and forensic tools to prevent and find waste, fraud and abuse.
December 19, 2011 -
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.
December 19, 2011 -
The Senate passed the megabus spending bill by a vote of 67-32 Saturday.
December 17, 2011 -
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.
December 16, 2011 -
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.
December 16, 2011