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After two-month tax cut plan, now what?
Meredith Shiner, Senate reporter at CQ Roll Call, tells In Depth with Francis Rose about what this extension means for you.
AFGE's strategy for 'good government' hinges on 2012 elections
With no end to lawmakers' fedbashing in sight, the American Federation of Government Employees is looking forward to 2012's presidential and Congressional elections. "Federal workers are a sane, responsible group of citizens. They vote in big numbers," AFGE President John Gage told Federal News Radio.
CBP commissioner to step down
Alan Bersin is resigning as the commissioner of Customs and Border Patrol at the end of the year.
Understanding Congress' payroll tax cut fight
If President Barack Obama, the House and the Senate all want to extend a Social Security payroll tax cut and jobless benefits through next year, why are they fighting so bitterly over doing it?
Congress amps up Federal Acquisition Institute's horsepower
As part of the Defense Authorization bill, lawmakers approve the FAI Improvement Act. The provision reaffirms the organization's role to oversee and train the civilian acquisition workforce. It also gives OFPP more oversight over the funding and development of procurement education.
Analysis: Feds in the crosshairs...once again
Former Virginia Congressman Tom Davis discusses congressional gridlock over the budget and the payroll tax cut extension, and the potential fallout that federal employees may face.
Hill update: Omnibus spending bill, payroll stalemate
Erik Wasson is a staff writer with The Hill.
President signs fallen flags for feds bill
President Barack Obama signed a bill Tuesday authorizing federal agencies to present an American flag to the families of federal employees killed in the line of duty.
GPO names first deputy female public printer
Davita Vance-Cooks will be the acting chief of the Government Printing Office.
Coburn report identifies nearly $7B in wasteful government spending
Among the report's outline of wasteful spending were more than $35 million in wasteful spending on political conventions, $14 million on an Air Force green construction project that was victim to "poor planning," and $4.68 billion identified by the final report of the Commission on Wartime Contracting on contracting waste in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Uncertainty remains about federal pay, benefits in payroll tax cut bill
The House has blocked the Senate's version of a two-month payroll tax cut extension.
Congress moves toward standoff over payroll tax
Partisan to the core, Congress careened toward a holiday-season standoff Monday on legislation to prevent a Social Security payroll tax increase for 160 million workers on Jan. 1.
Investigators say 4 Reps got discounted loans
Four House lawmakers received VIP discounted loans from the former Countrywide Financial Corp., the lender whose subprime mortgages was largely responsible for the nation's foreclosure crisis, according to congressional investigators.
Federal pay freeze still on table in payroll tax cut talks?
Federal employees were safe from another year of a pay freeze and changes to their annuity formula in the two-month payroll tax cut bill passed by the Senate this weekend. But now House Republican leaders are shunning the bipartisan bill, wanting to write their own version.
Boarman to step down as GPO chief
Senate leaves town without confirming nomination of 26th public printer. Boarman is unclear why his nomination has stalled.
Senate clears FY2012 spending bill, sends to President
The Senate passed the megabus spending bill by a vote of 67-32 Saturday.
Feds' pay, pensions safe in payroll tax cut extension
Federal employees have dodged a bullet...for now. Congress will not freeze federal pay or change the annuity formula to pay for the two-month extension of the payroll tax cut.
Obama signs stopgap measure, awaits spending bill
President Barack Obama has signed a 24-hour stopgap spending measure to keep the government operating as he awaits Senate action on a $1 trillion spending bill.
2012 funding levels: Agency-by-agency breakdown
After weeks of congressional negotiation and outright quarreling, a deal has emerged to provide 2012 funding for government operations. Follow the 2012 spending levels that came out of the latest funding fracas. Agency-by agency, track what's getting cut and where.
Omnibus deal not end of agencies' budget worries
After seven short-term spending bills and three threats of a government shutdown this calendar year, Congress is ready to pass a spending deal with a Friday midnight deadline. But today's expected passage of an omnibus spending bill for fiscal year 2012, which started Oct. 1, is not the end of federal managers' budget worries.
