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Peter Schroeder, a reporter with the Hill, told The Federal Drive with Tom Temin that he doesn\'t expect any surprises when Congress reconvenes to vote on the President\'s debt limit increase request.
Tom Shoop, the editor-in-chief of Government Executive magazine, posited on his blog that the Defense Department\'s soon-to-be-released budget cuts will almost certainly involve changes to its pay and benefits structure. He joined In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss the plan.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says that despite proposed cuts, Pentagon will still be able to fight one major conflict at a time.
The year can be summed up by a trio of showdowns, said Peter Schroeder, a staff writer with The Hill newspaper, in an interview on Federal Drive with Tom Temin. The near-government shutdown in April, the August debt ceiling showdown and the last-minute wrangling over the payroll tax cut.
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.
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
Meredith Shiner, Senate reporter at CQ Roll Call, tells In Depth with Francis Rose about what this extension means for you.
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.
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.
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.
Erik Wasson is a staff writer with The Hill.
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.
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.