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In this episode of Market Chat!, we will hear from three former federal executives about how CRs impact the government procurement cycle — and your government marketing campaigns. Hear important insights into how marketers can better plan and execute their messaging campaigns when budgets are tight and future funding is uncertain.
In today's Top Federal Headlines, the chair of the House Appropriations Committee has brought forth a short term continuing resolution to delay a government shutdown.
While the looming federal shutdown may be big news inside the Beltway, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says that it's probably not going to be mentioned in next week's People magazine.
Gen. Paul Selva all but told Americans to vote out their member of Congress because of the failure to pass a budget.
The Office of Management and Budget is doing its due diligence in preparing for a government shutdown.
The Congressional Budget Office estimates how the $1.1 trillion continuing resolution Congress is voting on will be divvied up among federal agencies.
With only a few days left before the current continuing resolution expires, it's back. The threat of a government shutdown. It's likely Congress will avoid that with another CR, but no one knows for how long. David Hawkings, senior editor of Roll Call, joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin to offer insight on whether they'll inch it along week by week or extend it until May.
Government by continuing resolution is no fun for anyone. Plans get put on hold, strategies stall. And it's hard for contractors when the government holds back, afraid to overspend what might be appropriated. Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal Business Partners, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin that early on a CR can have some benefits.
Congress has 10 work days when it gets back from recess to come up with a plan to fund the government for fiscal 2016. A continuing resolution looks like the most likely scenario. Linda Springer is former controller at the Office of Management and Budget and former director of the Office of Personnel Management. She tells In Depth with Francis Rose that your agency will be in better shape if you start planning for a CR now.
Republican leaders plan to pass a short-term funding bill this week to extend by three days the deadline for wrapping up a massive, $1 trillion-plus catch-all spending bill covering funding for the rest of the year. The short-term measure would give lawmakers until midnight next Saturday to pass the larger funding bill. The current stopgap funding bill expires at midnight on Wednesday.
House Democrats have crafted their own plan to temporarily fund federal agencies when the new fiscal year starts Oct. 1. Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), the ranking Democrat on the House Budget Committee announced Thursday he plans to introduce a Democratic alternative to the GOP continuing resolution that would replace automatic budget constraints set to continue into fiscal 2014.
The House Appropriations Committee unveiled a stopgap spending measure late Tuesday that would fund agencies slightly below current budget levels through Dec. 15. The bill gives agencies some additional spending flexibilities and includes a measure that could help agencies stave off furloughs in the first few months of fiscal 2014.
Despite the prospect of an extended pay freeze, many nonpostal workers have their "wigs" to keep them warm, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says. So, how do you get a 3 percent raise while salaries are frozen at 2010 levels?
The six-month stopgap spending bill unveiled by the House Appropriations Committee this week officially continues the federal pay freeze until at least March. The continuing resolution, which runs through March 27, gives lawmakers more time to make appropriations for the coming year and staves off the threat of a government shutdown. When a broad CR was first announced last month, the full Congress had not yet approved any fiscal 2013 spending bills. President Barack Obama proposed last month a 0.5 percent pay raise that would only take effect once Congress passed a 2013 budget — a de facto extension of the current two-year freeze. The CR makes the extension official.