Obama's reorg effort sure to face congressional fire
Tuesday - 1/17/2012, 6:49pm EST
Tom Shoop, editor-in-chief, Government Executive
President Barack Obama's initiative to streamline federal agencies is under way. Nearly a dozen agencies have begun a pilot program to combine and streamline missions.
But the broader reorganization plan is already facing some criticism in Congress.
Tom Shoop, the editor-in-chief of Government Executive magazine, joined In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss the plan's likelihood of actually moving forward.
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