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When things go wrong and affect a lot of people, the government sometimes appoints commissions to do after-the-fact analysis and come up with recommendations for congresses and administrations to try and prevent recurrences.
Congress barely avoided a government shutdown on Friday by passing a continuing resolution just hours before the previous CR was set to expire. But they didn't buy themselves much time.
With some details, Todd Harrison, senior fellow and director of defense budget analysis at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
In today's Federal Newscast: OPM has issued a guide on the President's executive order on employee firings. The nation’s largest veterans organization says the VA chief needs to go. And three companies have won a spot on a $496 million Defense Department R & D contract.
It may not gain a lot of traction with constituents, but modernizing the Congress itself is a high priority for at least a few members. Among them, members of the Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress.
You'd think for the way Congress appropriates the United States has unlimited money, and those trillions and trillions in debt are just academic. But budgetary policy and monetary policy are two different things.
In today's Federal Newscast, veterans service organizations and others have mixed reactions to President-elect Biden's pick to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Love him or hate him, or whatever you think of him, Trump has been an exquisitely attractive football to kick around.
USPS and Customs and Border Protection officials expect only about two-thirds of international packages will include advanced electronic data meant to flag illegal shipments of opioids.
IBM has a history spanning the earliest mainframe computers to artificial intelligence and blockchain. Now it's published what it calls bold ideas for a digital society.
In today's Federal Newscast, five years after the Office of Federal Procurement Policy issued guidance on reverse auctions, the Federal Acquisition Regulations Council is finally implementing it.
Every new administration promises transparency and accountability. Typically they say it shortly after entering the Oval Office after the inauguration parade.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have developed sound systems to identify and track multi-state outbreaks of food poisoning.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has unveiled a new data visualization project. It shows enforcement data in what the commission calls a simple, comprehensible and visually appealing way.