Barack Obama
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Deficit reduction will be the top priority post-election.
October 27, 2010 -
A new survey by the Public Policy Institute of California shows high distrust of both state and federal government.
October 22, 2010 -
A Nextgov study finds government is not getting high marks for transparency. Nextgov\'s Aliya Sternstein and Project on Government Oversight\'s Bryan Rahija, joined the DorobekINSIDER to discuss how agencies can become more open.
October 20, 2010 -
Senior Correspondent Mike Causey, Janet Kopenhaver of Federally Employed Women and Tom Shoop of Government Executive joined the DorobekINSIDER to discuss the repercussions of the recent Washington Post poll results that shows public negativity toward federal workers.
October 19, 2010 -
President Obama said Friday that agencies might leave some vacancies as the administration figures out how to save money, The Washington Post reports.
October 15, 2010 -
Federal agencies are turning to web sites like Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace to reach out to the public regarding their mission. But many agencies have also turned to social collaboration and networking sites to reach out to their own staff when it comes to President Obama\'s Green Government initiatives.
October 08, 2010 -
What does the White House Flickr feed say about who has influence in the Obama administration?
October 07, 2010 -
The Obama administration announced Tuesday its commitment to bring solar energy to the White House. But this isn’t the first time the White House has tapped the sun for energy. In 1979, President Jimmy Carter…
October 05, 2010 -
A Federal News Radio survey of federal employees and contractors found most are optimistic about reducing the government\'s carbon footprint, but not many believe the efforts are making a difference. About 40 percent of the respondents say President Obama\'s executive order to reduce energy usage is a lot of talk and not a lot of action, and 73 percent are not familiar with their agency\'s sustainability plan.
October 04, 2010 -
President Obama has signed into law, H.R. 3081, which will keep the government operating through December 3, 2010.
September 30, 2010 -
By Jason Miller Executive Editor Federal News Radio President Obama today announced his intention to nominate Gene Dodaro to be the next Comptroller General of the United States. Dodaro has been the acting Comptroller General…
September 22, 2010 -
The head of the government\'s top personnel office thinks the future looks bright for fixing the hiring process, which has been called broken, in the federal sector.
September 15, 2010 -
FCC has tapped a former Microsoft executive to help revamp the agency\'s web and data resources. The goal: to \"reboot\" FCC.gov, and make it a model for how government uses the web to serve citizens.
September 14, 2010 -
Now set to conclude his tenure as director of the Office of Management and Budget this Friday, Peter Orszag appraised his 18 months in the job. He points to a number of ways in which he and the administration tried to change the way the government works.
July 29, 2010 -
In the government, it\'s said that nothing has more endurance, or lasts longer than a document stamped \"top secret\". A presidential advisory panel tasked with developing a newly streamlined classification and declassification system for the government wrestled with one proposal to get rid of one existing category all together.
July 26, 2010