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The FDA’s gag rule on off-label treatments

Michael Cannon of the Cato Institute talks about restrictions on discussing legal uses of drugs for off-label purposes.

Of Consuming Interest

Postal Service will run out of cash by 2024 without congressional reform

Congress

How Sen. Lankford wants to resolve and prevent ‘Federal Fumbles’

Congress

Exclusive

Federal employees take issue with Cato’s public-private wage gap study

Pay

The truth about federal pay

Commentary

Latest study on federal compensation puts public, private pay gap at widest margin yet

Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., left, talks to the committee's ranking member Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I. on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 11, 2017, during the committee's confirmation hearing for Navy Secretary nominee Richard Spencer. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

McCain, Reed float trial balloon for another BRAC round

DoD Reporter's Notebook

David Bier: DHS E-verify system needs a makeover

Federal Drive

FILE - In this Nov. 21, 2013 file photo reviewed by the U.S. military, dawn arrives at the now closed Camp X-Ray, which was used as the first detention facility for al-Qaida and Taliban militants who were captured after the Sept. 11 attacks at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. A former al-Qaida militant who gained fame with the publication of a diary about life at Guantanamo Bay has been approved for release from the detention center at the U.S. base in Cuba, the American Civil Liberties Union announced Wednesday, July 20, 2016. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

DoD tries to calm Congress over new BRAC request

BRAC

BRAC finds some stable ground in 2017

Defense

Clinton’s tech policy pledges smarter, newer, more open government

Hillary Clinton’s technology and innovation initiative pledges a more modern and open digital government. The policy plan also supports the creation of…

Technology

The fiscal chopping block: How programs are saved, sliced in the federal budget

President Barack Obama in February presented his eighth and final budget, which includes a list of programs he’d like to see reduced or ended. How and…

Budget

Feds are overpaid — or not: Part II