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Under Secretary of the Navy Bob Work credits civilian senior executives with providing continuity in achieving his department\'s mission of supporting warfighters.
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.
Host Mark Amtower is joined by David Shea, director of GSA\'s Office of Charge Card Management. They will discuss how agencies use the SmartPay 2 charge card program. November 21, 2011(Encore presentation December 12, 2011)
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.
For the first time in 20 years, audits reviewed and gave an opinion for every civilian agency. Only DoD doesn\'t have a qualified or clean audit opinion.
President Barack Obama will sign into law Monday legislation giving tax breaks to companies that hire unemployed veterans.
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.
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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.
After a decade in which it has been built up to parity with the active Army and Air Force components, the National Guard should not be allowed to backslide to a point where it is no longer usable, the National Guard chief said Friday.
Agencies have four months to develop diversity and inclusion plans under a broad, brief governmentwide strategy released Thursday. Proponents say, by making the President\'s Management Council responsible for progress, the strategy will succeed where past measures have failed.