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Obama gives recess appointment to CMS head
The administration says the move to install Donald Berwick was critical for progress. Republican lawmakers are livid that the appointee will not face immediate scrutiny.
Tags: Barack Obama , Donald Berwick , CMS , recess appointment , Mitch McConnell , AFL-CIO , Philip E. Coyle III , Joshua Gotbaum , Senate , Rachel Stevens
Grassley: Pursuing federal contractor tax deadbeats a matter of 'fairness'
One of the top ranking Republicans on the Senate Finance Committee believes if federal workers should be held accountable for back federal taxes, then so should federal contractors.
Tags: management , federal taxes , Max Cacas , contracting
Lawmakers tell supercommittee to cap contractor salaries
The proposal by three members of Congress would reduce the amount contractor employees can earn from government work. Currently, the limit is about $694,000 and applies only to companies' top five executives.
Tags: joint select committee on deficit reduction , contracting , industry , Paul Tonko , Barbara Boxer , TechAmerica , Trey Hodgkins , Ruben Gomez
Report: Labor Dept.'s green jobs program fell short of goals
A $500 million Labor Department program designed to train workers for green jobs has come up far short of its goals, with only 10 percent of participants finding work so far, the agency's assistant inspector general has found.
Tags: Labor , Solyndra , green energy ,
Will cybersecurity bills make it out of committee?
The Senate Judiciary Committee has passed three cybersecurity bills, all dealing with national standards for security breaches involving personal data. But the votes followed party lines making it harder to move them to the full Senate for a vote.
Tags: cybersecurity , Cybersecurity Update , Senate Judiciary Committee , Senate , Federal Drive , Congress
Grassley: DoD IG makes progress, but not enough
Sen. Chuck Grassley, issuing his second report on the status of the Defense Department's inspector general, said there are "positive trends" in the office he has previously criticized but he and his staff still give the IGs work a "D minus."
Tags: DoD , Congress , management , auditing , Gordon Heddell , inspector general , Jared Serbu
Grassley: DoD IG's lax oversight results in fraud
The Pentagon's top watchdog has abandoned efforts to do in-depth audits of defense contracts, leaving billions of dollars in taxpayer money at risk because of overpayments and fraud, according to an investigative report due to be made public Thursday.
Tags: newscast , DorobekInsider , Must Reads , Pentagon , contracting , management , DoD , defense spending , IG
Chuck Grassley: NSF still a hotbed of porn
Sen. Chuck Grassley has resumed his crusade to combat pornography at the National Science Foundation.
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