government shutdown
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Time for lawmakers to pass a continuing resolution is running short as the fiscal year ends Friday. The Senate rejected the House version of CR Friday, and will take up debate on its version Monday afternoon. In the meantime, cuts to GAO and the E-Government Fund are drawing ire from supporters.
September 26, 2011 -
The threat of a Oct. 1 government shutdown is closer after the Senate rejected a short-term funding bill passed in the House that would keep government funded beyond the Sept. 30 end of the fiscal year.
September 23, 2011 -
Bill Frenzel a global scholar of economics at Brookings Institution, joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin and Amy Morris to discuss perspective on what\'s happening on the Hill, and whether the government is facing a shutdown.
September 23, 2011 -
The House approved a short-term spending measure Thursday after lawmakers rejected a similar bill earlier this week.
September 23, 2011 -
Russell Berman, a staff writer with The Hill newspaper, joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin and Amy Morris to discuss the latest from the halls of Congress.
September 21, 2011 -
A six-week continuing resolution did not pass the House in a vote today. The government runs out of funds on Sept. 30 if Congress does not pass a bill. What\'s more, lawmakers face a shortened deadline to sort out 2012 funding — Congress will be in recess all next week.
September 21, 2011 -
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said it\'s possible there will be a government shutdown at the end of this month.
September 20, 2011 -
There\'s a lesson in the budget for the forthcoming battle over lifting the debt ceiling.
April 18, 2011 -
It\'s been seven days since 800,000 feds learned they wouldn\'t be furloughed without pay. While that was tough on many of them, it had its upside. Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says it gave him visibility that Jay Leno or Dianne Sawyer took years to achieve. So how did you handle the shutdown threat?
April 15, 2011 -
Most individuals have a time period they consider the good old days...when kids were kids...people didn\'t lock their doors. But Mike Causey says that for many federal workers the good old days didn\'t last very long because they only included last weekend!
April 14, 2011 -
Federal Times editor Steve Watkins joins host Mike Causey to talk about what\'s next for federal workers and retirees. April 13, 2011
April 13, 2011 -
Government Executive\'s Tom Shoop describes some post-shutdown feelings among feds.
April 12, 2011 -
Rich Wilkinson is director of government contracting and technology at Watkins Meegan. He explains what contractors should be doing to stay in business in case of a shutdown.
April 12, 2011 -
Cyber-attackers could view a shutdown as the perfect opportunity to infiltrate government systems. ISC squared\'s Hord Tipton joins us with analysis.
April 12, 2011 -
More details are emerging about the $38 billion dollar deal lawmakers say they reached to keep the government from shutting down. Some cuts were made by pruning money left over from previous years. More than half of the cuts affect education, labor and health programs. A vote in the House is expected as early as Wednesday and the Senate must pass it by Friday to prevent a shutdown.
April 12, 2011