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Dr. Winslow Sargeant will be the new chief counsel for advocacy of the Small Business Administration.
The final vote was 64-36 for the former Obama policy director.
Track recommendations on federal pay, benefits and retirement made to the supercommittee by top Congressional leaders and the White House.
President Obama has codified several initiatives that were developed after classified data became public. The Information Sharing Environment\'s mission has been extended to help coordinate the development of standards to securely share classified information.
Postal workers and federal employees groups are urging the \"supercommittee\" to reject President Barack Obama\'s proposed increase in employee retirement contributions and support his cap on contractors\' salaries. The Federal-Postal Coalition also wants lawmakers to preserve Saturday mail delivery, despite USPS\' wishes.
President Obama awarded to 94 researchers the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers.
The Partnership for Public Service\'s new report warns the United States \"must not repeat the mistakes of the past\" with automatic across-the-board cuts.
A House subcommittee markup of a bill to address the Postal Service\'s financial problems broke down along partisan lines. Democrats accused Republicans of using this legislation to weaken labor provisions. Republicans said Democrats would prefer bailing out the agency rather than making it sustainable. The bill now goes to the full House Oversight and Governmental Reforms Committee.
Katherine McFate is the president and CEO of OMB Watch.
Berry said he thinks feds will continue to donate at high levels in future drives, despite a two-year pay freeze and other proposals that could cut their pay and benefits
A House subcommittee will markup legislation Wednesday to address the Postal Service\'s financial problems. President Obama unveiled his reform proposal earlier this week. Postal Service officials say, if enacted, it would give them the breathing room they need to make major network changes.
President Barack Obama has proposed an open government plan that includes more streamlined responses to FOIA requests, digital record management, a revamped regulations.gov and new measures to promote public participation in government. He presented the plan at a meeting of the international Open Government Partnership in New York.
The President said in a speech today that federal contractor executives are getting paid too much from the government.
President Obama wants federal employees to contribute more to their retirement plans as part of a $4.4 trillion plan to reduce the deficit over the next decade. The plan also includes measures to return to the Postal Service money that it has overpaid for retiree benefits and restructure health benefits.