Bernie Sanders

In this image from video, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., speaks on the House floor, Thursday, July 23, 2020 on Capitol Hill in Washington. Ocasio-Cortez's objections to a Republican lawmaker's verbal assault on her expanded Thursday as she and other Democrats took to the House floor to demand an end to a sexist culture of “accepting violence and violent language against women.” Rep. Nydia Velázquez, D-N.Y., is seated right. (House Television via AP)

House, Senate Dems want to allow Postal Service to do more banking activities

In today’s Federal Newscast, House and Senate Democrats press the rest of Congress to let the Postal Service get into the banking business.

Federal Newscast

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Flatter defense budgets means Congress will look for savings and legacy cuts

Defense

A MTA employee, wears a mask to protect against coronavirus, waits in the conductors area of a subway car as NYPD and MTA officers wake up sleeping passengers and direct them to the exits at the 207th Street A-train station, Thursday, April 30, 2020, in the Manhattan borough of New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

EPA wants to help cities keep their transit systems clean

Federal Newscast

Defense cuts, cybersecurity and IoT: Five Senate NDAA amendments to know

Defense

These four amendments snuck into the Senate defense authorization bill

Congress

VA Secretary Robert Wilkie (Dec. 19. Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

Congress questions progress on veterans choice, suicide prevention amid ‘constant churn’ of VA leadership

Veterans Affairs

Lawmakers battle over letting US Postal Service offer financial services

Federal Newscast

Sen. Sanders pitches USPS as one-stop shop for mail, printing, banking

Management

Washington, D.C. skyline with highways and monuments.

Shutdown odds, VA funding, politicals vs. career feds

Senior Correspondent Mike Causey has a few questions about some recent top news stories.

Federal Report

Sen. Bernie Sanders takes aim at ‘excessive defense contractor compensation’

In today’s Federal Newscast, Senator and 2016 presidential candidate Bernie Sanders wants to know what Defense Secretary James Mattis is doing to address…

Federal Newscast

Focus on VA hiring, not Veterans Choice, AFGE says

Veterans Affairs

As Congress will soon resume debates over the future of the Veterans Choice Program, the American Federation of Government Employees is urging lawmakers to consider consequences of privatization.

Bernie Sanders

House, Senate Dems want to allow Postal Service to do more banking activities

Flatter defense budgets means Congress will look for savings and legacy cuts

EPA wants to help cities keep their transit systems clean

Defense cuts, cybersecurity and IoT: Five Senate NDAA amendments to know

Space Force has officially started posting job openings

GSA takes aim at those submitting fake comments on proposed regulations

GAO says GSA is underreporting how much it spent on federal real estate

These four amendments snuck into the Senate defense authorization bill

Congress questions progress on veterans choice, suicide prevention amid ‘constant churn’ of VA leadership

Lawmakers battle over letting US Postal Service offer financial services

Sen. Sanders pitches USPS as one-stop shop for mail, printing, banking

Shutdown odds, VA funding, politicals vs. career feds

Sen. Bernie Sanders takes aim at ‘excessive defense contractor compensation’

Focus on VA hiring, not Veterans Choice, AFGE says

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