Deb Fischer

Elections 2024-Texas Senate

GOP Senators slam financially strapped Amtrak for paying $75M in bonuses

Out of $75 million in bonuses paid in 2023, about 14 Amtrak executives received more than $200,000 each.

Federal Newscast

Defense cuts, cybersecurity and IoT: Five Senate NDAA amendments to know

Defense

Social security relief for federal retirees, and other bills to watch after August recess

Congress

Reservists may get license transfers from military to civilian world

Reporter's Notebook

U.S. Air National Guard photo by/Staff Sgt. Edward Eagerton

Staff Sgt. Micah McDonald, a air surveillance technician with the 176th Air Defense Squadron, Alaska Air National Guard, evaluates radar data during exercise Fencing Rice on JBER, June 14, 2016. Fencing Rice is a local exercise designed to test the unit’s Air Defense response. The 176 ADS employs surveillance, identification, weapons control and data links in support of the Alaskan NORAD region’s 24/7/365 mission to watch and protect the skies over 1.3 million square miles of Alaskan airspace. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Edward Eagerton/released)

Bill orders Pentagon to fix knowledge gap in National Guard, reserve cyber capabilities

DoD Reporter's Notebook

Congress to start 2016 with waste-cutting resolutions

Congress

Bill would mean 5 years without a bonus for delinquent feds

Congress