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Lawmakers debate pay cutoff for budget gridlock
Tags: Jim Cooper , Susan Collins , Joe Lieberman , Congress , Senate , budget
Cardin: Scaling back USPS service to save money 'counterproductive'
There are a number of proposals to put the cash-strapped Postal Service on firmer financial ground. But Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) says many of them would reduce the service levels the public has come to expect and further drive away business. He joined In Depth with Francis to discuss why he thinks maintaining service levels is the best framework for fixing the Postal Service's finances.
Tags: USPS , budget , In Depth , Francis Rose
Carper: USPS can take page from auto industry in fixing finances
Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs subcommittee on federal financial management, told In Depth with Francis Rose the comparison between the Postal Service and Detroit auto-makers may seem "unlikely." But the plan that turned around the bailed-out auto industry could prevent having to bail out the Postal Service in the first place.
Tags: Congress , Senate , Tom Carper , USPS , budget , In Depth , Francis Rose , Barbara Mikulski
New feds' pension contributions increase under payroll tax cut deal
Federal pension contributions would increase under a compromise deal to extend a payroll tax cut and pay for jobless benefits through 2012.
Tags: budget , payroll tax cut , Congress , pay and benefits , pension , Chris Van Hollen , Max Baucus , David Camp
Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) addresses the dangers of cutting public services - February 17th, 2012
This week on AFGE's "Inside Government" Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) appears along with AFGE National President John Gage from the union's annual Legislative and Grassroots Mobilization Conference in Washington, D.C. Cardin discusses the danger of cutting public services while Gage addresses the AFGE's 2012 legislative priorities. AFGE Department of Defense Local 2516 President Paul Ferris and Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights President and CEO Wade Henderson also appear.
Tags: AFGE , workforce , Wade Henderson , Paul Ferris , John Gage ,
Senators ask OMB to intervene in retirement backlog
A new letter, signed by Sens. Mark Warner (D-Va.), Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) and Ben Cardin (D-Md.), calls on the Office of Management and Budget to take on the "urgent matter" of processing federal retirements. The letter comes a week after a Senate subcommittee hearing in which the Office of Personnel Management was taken to task for its handling of the longstanding backlog.
Tags: workforce , retirement , OPM , Mark Warner , Barbara Mikulski , OMB , Jeffrey Zients , John Berry , Congress , Senate , retirement backlog
Congress revisiting bruising payroll tax cut fight
Tags: Congress , payroll tax cut , Barack Obama , Mitch McConnell , Bob Casey , Xavier Becerra , Nan Hayworth , Tom Price , Chris Van Hollen , Joseph Biden
Feds plan to shell out more money to get to work
Without Congressional action, the public transit benefit that many federal employees use to take the subway, bus or vanpool to work will decrease on Jan. 1 from $230 to $125 per month. Feds said, for the most part, they'll continue to use mass transit even if it costs them more to get to work.
Tags: mass transit benefit , NTEU , Colleen Kelley , Congress , Barbara Mikulski , Matthew Magazu , Shannon Richardson , FEMA , Caroline Tiplin , Keith Eichenholz , HHS , Emily Kopp , telework , pay and benefits
Democratic lawmakers trying to beat back another federal pay freeze
Maryland and Virginia lawmakers say federal employees have been singled out enough and shouldn't endure another year of a pay freeze or other benefit cuts. The Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act includes such provisions. Rep. Gerry Connolly said continued pay freezes or reduction in benefits will impact recruiting and retention of employees.
Tags: pay and benefits , Congress , John Boehner , Gerry Connolly , Chris Van Hollen , NTEU , AFGE , Colleen Kelley , John Gage , pay freeze , NARFE , Julie Tagen , Jason Miller
Senators call for mass-transit benefit extension
A group of 22 senators has called on the Senate Finance Committee to take up extending a mass-transit commuter tax benefit, which expires at the end of the year. The mass-transit benefit is set to be cut nearly in half — from $230 a month to $120 — starting next year, barring action by Congress.
Tags: pay and benefits , Congress , House , Senate , NTEU , mass-transit benefit , Barbara Mikulski , Senate Finance Committee
