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A leading Republican on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has expressed interest in taking a closer look at spending that's on "autopilot," and not ordinarily part of the annual congressional appropriations process.
December 11, 2018 -
Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal Business Partners, shared potential obstacles for government contractors on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
December 10, 2018 -
In today's Federal Newscast, officials with the Defense Department's Office of Inspector General said they’ve had much more success with a new alternative dispute resolution process.
December 04, 2018 -
Federal employees who are typically scheduled for an eight-hour day on Wednesday, Dec. 5 will be excused from work and will get paid for the time off, according to new OPM guidance.
December 03, 2018 -
In today's Federal Newscast, with the threat of a government shutdown looming, the National Treasury Employees Union is pleading with Congress to pass the seven remaining appropriations bills.
November 28, 2018 -
The possibility of a Dec. 7 partial government shutdown is another good reason feds and especially retired government workers should pick their 2019 health plan ASAP.
November 28, 2018 -
Narrowly avoiding a shutdown, the House and Senate will go into recess with the proposed pay raise still potentially on the chopping block.
October 03, 2018 -
The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee said he's confident President Trump will sign a "minibus" package of 2019 spending bills, despite threats to veto in the last round of budget talks.
September 26, 2018 -
Storm watchers' biggest fear is that, like Hurricane Harvey last year, the giant Florence will slow almost to walking speed and dump feet of water on the East Coast, where the ground is already saturated.
September 13, 2018 -
It’s a long way from clear whether the bills the Senate comes up with will be acceptable to the House – or to President Trump, who’s been flirting with the idea of another government shutdown.
August 07, 2018 -
With a possible governmentwide shutdown just 58 days away, survivors of previous time-outs are remembering how they coped, if they were ordered not to work, or to go to work without the guarantee of getting paid.
August 03, 2018 -
Yesterday Mike Causey asked people to revisit the ghosts of shutdowns past and remember how they handled the financial and emotional strain. Shutdowns can be traumatic financially, but some feds said they turned them into a vacation.
August 02, 2018 -
How many shutdowns have you been through? How did you get by? Senior Correspondent Mike Causey wants to know.
July 31, 2018 -
Causey says President Donald Trump is keeping his promises to "drain the swamp" with a crackdown on federal unions, and aims to make the federal retirement plan more costly for workers and less valuable for retirees.
June 19, 2018 -
What are the real impacts of continuing resolutions and government shutdowns? Find out when Attain CIO Simon Szykman and Lohfeld Consulting Group CEO Bob Lohfeld join host Mark Amtower on this week's Amtower Off Center. March 26, 2018
March 22, 2018