House of Representatives
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The Office of Personnel Management faces a House subcommittee today to answer questions about its handling of the USAJobs relaunch.
November 15, 2011 -
Steve Bell, the senior director of economic policy at the Bipartisan Policy Center, joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin and Amy Morris to provide an update into how the supercommittee is coming along and what it all means for the federal budget and federal employees.
November 14, 2011 -
Reps. John Carney (D-Del.) and Peter Roskam (R-Ill.) introduced a bill today that aims to fight waste and fraud in Medicare and Medicaid payments.
November 11, 2011 -
A new bill, introduced by Rep. Susan Davis (D-Calif.) would ban smoking in and near all federal buildings, closing a loophole that exempted many federal buildings from a 2008 directive banning smoking. Previous anti-smoking directives applied only to buildings under GSA\'s custody.
November 11, 2011 -
Dogs that worked in Iraq and helped at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001, receive first-ever American Humane Association Hero Dog Awards.
November 07, 2011 -
The conference committee is the first step in reconciling the House version of the appropriations bill with the Senate\'s.
November 03, 2011 -
The Pentagon said it needs a much clearer picture of the subcontractors beneath the top tier of prime vendors it works with every day. DoD is trying to create a comprehensive map of the entire defense industry so it can keep critical suppliers healthy during an expected period of industry consolidation.
November 02, 2011 -
Alan Chvotkin is the vice president of the Professional Services Council.
October 27, 2011 -
A rare public hearing of the supercommittee suggests members aren\'t close to developing a plan to cut more than $1 trillion from the federal deficit over 10 years. Congressional Budget Office Director Doug Elmendorf warned them that cuts to discretionary funding, including feds\' pay, would not solve the problem.
October 27, 2011 -
The House is expected to approve a measure repealing a law that withholds 3 percent of government contractors\' payments. The original law was enacted in 2006 to ensure contractors paid their taxes. But it\'s seen its implementation delayed until 2013, and it has grown increasingly unpopular with both Democratic and Republican lawmakers.
October 26, 2011 -
Amid calls for military retirement reform, Pentagon officials say the system that\'s in place right now is not the main driver of the department\'s escalating personnel costs and is affordable . Their remarks Tuesday before a Congressional subcommittee run counter to a Defense Business Board report that suggested retirement costs may eventually crowd out warfighting capability.
October 26, 2011 -
The White House is threatening to veto a bill that would repeal the 3 percent tax withholding on government contractors because of the spending cuts attached to the legislation. The Senate version of the bill would cut $30 billion in government spending to pay for repealing the tax, which the White House says is too much.
October 21, 2011 -
James Lewis of the Center for Strategic and International Studies says the strategies of the chambers differ but the policies are actually similar.
October 19, 2011 -
A major goal of this new task force is to break up the comprehensive cyber bill into four separate components each of which could be addressed by an individual bill.
October 18, 2011 -
Paul Singer, investigative editor at Roll Call, discusses the provisions of the Government Charge Card Abuse Prevention Act.
October 18, 2011