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Treasury Department

  • Although the President’s cabinet team is in place, a number of important positions are still waiting to be filled. The Treasury Department is one agency with high-level positions still vacant. This week the Senate Finance…

    June 09, 2009
  • FedExperience launched last fall. It is a pilot project with the Department of Treasury, which is designed to help the federal government develop models to bring experienced talent into public service. Tim McManus is the…

    June 05, 2009
  • Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner defended the Troubled Asset Relief Program during a visit to Capitol Hill yesterday. Geithner testified before a Congressional oversight panel about how Treasury is using the $700 billion dollars from the…

    April 22, 2009
  • How secure are the 98,000 desktop and laptop computers at the Internal Revenue Service? Peggy Begg is the Assistant Inspector General for Security and Information Technology Audits with the Treasury Department. She joins us to…

    April 08, 2009
  • President Obama has publicly stated that his administration will be known for openness and transparency. One of the cornerstones of that policy will be websites such as recovery.gov and USASpending.gov, which will use new technologies…

    March 24, 2009
  • President Barack Obama sent Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and OMB Director Peter Orzag to Capitol Hill yesterday to defend the 2010 budget proposal. Jodi Schneider is Senior Editor at Congressional Quarterly and brings us up…

    March 04, 2009
  • Lawmakers and the markets gave a lukewarm response to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s public address on how Obama administration’s financial rescue plan. Neil Irwin, Washington Post Financial Reporter, joins us to discuss the remaining challenges…

    February 13, 2009
  • CHEERS To Bob Martinez, Patrick Jones, Paul Davis, and Tim Cashman, GSA Pacific Rim, Public Building Service employees, who increased the use of renewable energy at the California Land Port of Entry in Otay Mesa,…

    February 10, 2009
  • Treasury is splitting TIPSS 4 into two separate solicitations.

    January 12, 2009
  • The Treasury Department is splitting its Total Information Processing Support Services, or TIPSS 4, contract into two separate solicitations. Treasury wants to give more small businesses a chance to compete. The solicitation for this 6…

    January 12, 2009
  • Rochelle Granat U.S. Department of Treasury December 29th and 31st, 2008

    December 29, 2008
  • New guidance offers steps agencies can take address risks in cell phones, PDAs

    November 25, 2008
  • Hundreds of billions of dollars have been spent trying to rescue the American economy, and hundreds of billions more could be spent by the time all is said and done. A second economic stimulus package…

    November 14, 2008
  • Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson says he’s just adjusting the financial rescue plan to reflect changing priorities. The Secretary announced his plans today at a Treasury Department news briefing. FederalNewsRadio’s Max Cacas was there and gives…

    November 12, 2008
  • The Treasury Department has committed $125 billion so far to the Capital Purchase Program part of the financial rescue plan. Neel Kashkari, the Treasury’s interim assistant secretary for financial stability, today said the department submitted…

    November 10, 2008