Congress

  • By Jolie Lee Federal News Radio A partial shutdown could happen as soon as this weekend if Congress remains stuck in a budget impasse. The Department of Health and Human Services sent a memo to…

    April 06, 2011
  • The Postal Service asked Congress Tuesday to change laws requiring them to pre-pay health benefits and overfund the Federal Employees\' Retirement System. Republicans say USPS needed to do much more to \"right-size\" its costs and operations.

    April 06, 2011
  • The Postal Service asked Congress Tuesday to change laws requiring them to pre-pay health benefits and overfund the Federal Employees\' Retirement System. Republicans say USPS needed to do much more to \"right-size\" its costs and operations.

    April 06, 2011
  • Gov Exec\'s Tom Shoop discusses how federal workers and agencies are preparing for a possible shutdown.

    April 05, 2011
  • The Postal Service will save more than $3 billion over the next several years under a labor agreement it negotiated with one of its largest unions, Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe will tell Congress Tuesday. House lawmakers have called a hearing to examine the deal with the American Postal Workers Union and other USPS workforce issues.

    April 04, 2011
  • Jim Horney, director of Federal Fiscal Policy at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, offers his analysis of will happen this week and what that\'ll mean for your agency.

    April 04, 2011
  • Former E-gov administrator Karen Evans is here to tell you what might stay, what might go, and who it would affect if this cut gets passed.

    March 29, 2011
  • The Government Accountability Office said in findings announced to Congress Tuesday that the Nunn-McCurdy amendment, designed to curtail cost growth in Defense programs, has succeeded in bringing an end to only one overly costly military program in the last 14 years.

    March 29, 2011
  • Former Congressman Tom Davis (VA-R) joins host Roger Waldron for a discussion on the federal procurement system. Plus, Davis gives his take on the current budget debate. March 29, 2011

    March 29, 2011
  • The specter of at least a partial government shutdown looms once again. The AP\'s Jerry Bodlander has the latest.

    March 29, 2011
  • If the government is shut down next week, Congress and the White House will remain open for business and in a pay status so they can work out a deal to reopen the government that was closed because they couldn\'t work out a deal. Senior Correspondent Mike Causey explains the logic behind the furlough follies.

    March 29, 2011
  • Linda Brooks Rix, Co-CEO of AVUE Technologies, joins host Derrick Dortch for a discussion of how the budget battle is affecting federal hiring and concerns she has about the Office of Personnel Management. March 25, 2011 (Encore presentation April 1, 2011)

    March 25, 2011
  • Andrew Cockburn has co-authored the Pentagon Labyrinth: Ten Short Essays to Help You Through It. He says DoD is making buying decisions based on what makes money for industry and congressional districts.

    March 23, 2011
  • Federal Times\' Steve Watkins and Steve Losey discuss the likelihood of bills targeting federal employees will have enough votes to pass.

    March 23, 2011
  • The Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, in an analysis this month, estimated that the Libyan no-fly zone could cost $100 million to $300 million per week. The Hill\'s Sam Youngman puts those numbers into perspective for us.

    March 23, 2011