Congress
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Obama administration officials told Congress agencies are taking a more aggressive stance than ever in their efforts to cut improper payments. The White House has set a goal of reducing such payments by $50 billion by next fiscal year.
May 26, 2011 -
The legislation would save taxpayers billions of dollars, claims the bill\'s sponsor Rep. Jeff Denham (R-Calif).
May 25, 2011 -
A bill introduced this week in the House would improve training for veterans and change hiring practices to favor veterans.
May 25, 2011 -
Defense Secretary Robert Gates said the military is not the cause of the nation\'s debt and deficits -- but it needs to be part of the solution. And he said finding that solution could involve reexamining military pay and benefits.
May 25, 2011 -
Host Debra Roth is joined by Federal News Radio\'s Mike Causey, NARFE Legislative Director Dan Adcock, and World at Work\'s Lenny Sanicola to talk about pending legislation in Congress that would change retirement benefits for federal workers. May 20, 2011
May 20, 2011 -
The Secretary of the Army said Wednesday that the service agreed with most of the recommendations of a blue ribbon panel on reforming its acquisition process. Secretary John McHugh told Congress the Army was moving forward with 63 of the 76 recommendations.
May 19, 2011 -
NARFE legislative director Dan Adcock, Federal Times editor Steve Watkins and senior reporter Sean Reilly join host Mike Causey to talk about legislation pending in Congress that affects your pay and retirement benefits. May 18, 2011
May 18, 2011 -
Leaders in the Defense and Veterans Affairs departments say a new system that will let them jointly evaluate the disabilities of wounded servicemembers is a vast improvement over old procedures, but it will take another year or two before they can meet their goal of evaluating disabilities within 300 days.
May 18, 2011 -
By Ruben Gomez Federal News Radio Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) is opposing a proposal that would require federal employees to increase their retirement contributions. The proposal, one of many aimed at reducing the federal deficit,…
May 18, 2011 -
The Hill\'s Kevin Bogardus reports House Republicans have threatened to introduce legislation to block an executive order that would have government contractors disclose their political contributions if President Obama goes ahead with it. He explains what\'s at stake.
May 18, 2011 -
Without action from Congress, the U.S. Postal Service will default on its obligations to future retirees\' health care accounts. Next up are payments to employees and vendors, the postmaster general told Congress Tuesday.
May 18, 2011 -
The amount of money you must pay to your retirement fund could be going up. The 2012 budget proposal from House Republicans would require you to contribute 6 percent of your salaries. That\'s a jump of more than 5 percent.
May 16, 2011 -
The President\'s pay agent said federal employees should not receive locality pay adjustments in 2012, despite recommendations by the Federal Salary Council for an increase.
May 16, 2011 -
A day after the Department of Homeland Security cancelled its $450 million contract to modernize and unify its backoffice IT systems, the department\'s acting CFO told Congress DHS will focus first on modernizing the infrastructure of the department\'s components that are severely out of date. A new strategy for an integrated, departmentwide system has yet to be determined, she said.
May 16, 2011 -
With his analysis is Erroll Southers, a former FBI Special Agent and was Assistant Chief of Homeland Security and Intelligence at the Los Angeles World Airports Police Department.
May 12, 2011