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In floor comments today, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) indicated a willingness to compromise with Republicans on a spending bill.
March 10, 2011 -
Redundancy, the budget, and your pay are all connected. And they all need to be viewed in the long term, Rep. Darrell Issa told Federal News Radio.
March 10, 2011 -
A Senate Democrat blasted the Obama administration for holding up passage of cybersecurity legislation that has been subjected to a more than year-long interagency review process.
March 10, 2011 -
House Republicans feel they need two stopgap spending bills for the budget standoff with Democrats. The Hill\'s Alexander Bolton explains it for us.
March 09, 2011 -
Heather Higginbottom, President Obama\'s nominee to be deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget, likely will have her nomination sent to the full Senate by next week.
March 09, 2011 -
Russell Berman, congressional reporter with The Hill, explains the current state of the budget battle on Capitol Hill.
March 08, 2011 -
David Silverberg, editor of Homeland Security Today, describes how the Obama administration is reaching out to Islamic leaders in the United States as hearings on homegrown terrorism are scheduled.
March 07, 2011 -
A House subcommittee will hold a hearing next week to examine federal pay and propose solutions for government efficiency.
March 04, 2011 -
Stuart Bowen told Congress the State Department is far from ready to take over the occupation of the country from the US military. We talk to him about that conclusion.
March 04, 2011 -
A shutdown has been averted for now as Congress passed a short-term spending measure Wednesday to keep the government funded through March 18. But it’s now five months into the current fiscal year, and Congress…
March 03, 2011 -
Congressman Mike Turner outlined his priorities as Chairman of the House Armed Services Strategic Forces Subcommittee. He joins us to talk about them.
March 03, 2011 -
WFED\'s Mike Causey says if there is a shutdown, it will be very different from the partial government shutdowns in 1995 and 1996.
March 02, 2011 -
Both political parties are making a \"good faith effort\" to avoid a shutdown, but agencies should still have a plan in place in case Congress cannot reach a compromise to fund government, said John Koskinen, the former deputy director for management at the Office of Management and Budget during the last partial government shutdowns in 1995 and 1996,
March 02, 2011 -
A government shutdown appears to be averted... for now. The Hill\'s Erik Wasson tells us what\'s next.
March 02, 2011 -
By Jolie Lee Federal News Radio Congress is one step closer to averting a government shutdown this week after the House passed a bill Tuesday that continues to fund government for two weeks after the…
March 01, 2011