There\'s a lesson in the budget for the forthcoming battle over lifting the debt ceiling.
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?
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!
Federal Times editor Steve Watkins joins host Mike Causey to talk about what\'s next for federal workers and retirees. April 13, 2011
Government Executive\'s Tom Shoop describes some post-shutdown feelings among feds.
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.
Cyber-attackers could view a shutdown as the perfect opportunity to infiltrate government systems. ISC squared\'s Hord Tipton joins us with analysis.
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.
Stan Collender is a partner at Qorvis Communications and a regular budget guru on Federal News Radio. He says you\'re not out of the woods yet.
Federal News Radio Senior Correspondent Mike Causey continues explains how you can prepare for what come next.
Events are a huge business for the government. And in the past couple of weeks the threat of a government shutdown had many insiders worried.
Host Mark Amtower discusses a wide variety of issues with Washington Technology editor-in-chief Nick Wakeman and Lohfeld Consulting Group CEO Bob Lohfeld. April 11, 2011 (Encore presentation April 25, 2011)
Steve Ressler, founder and president of GovLoop, talks to Tom Temin about the current and future use of social media in government, and how social media changed the talk surrounding the potential shutdown.
Federal employees attending the Federal Senior Management Conference talked with Federal News Radio about the shutdown that almost was.
Rep. Gerry Connolly from Virginia gives his take what comes next.