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Feds Up The River: Nile or Potomac Style

The government is proposing a 15 percent pay raise for employees...that's the good news...the bad news is that it is not the U.S. government that's come up with this plan. So what's going on? Mike Causey has a roadmap.

Tags: pay freeze , budget , pay and benefits , Mike Causey , Federal Report , AFGE

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What will budget battle mean for agencies?

GovExec's Tom Shoop gives his analysis of what will happen to feds with the upcoming budget battle.

Tags: budget , Tom Shoop , Government Executive , Barack Obama , shutdown , Dorobek Insider

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DoD, veterans programs on the budget chopping block

Military Times reports that defense and veterans programs may get funding cuts in the upcoming budget battle.

Tags: DoD Update , VA , budget , Paul Ryan , Dorobek Insider , Military Times

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How the budget cap would hit your agency

President Barack Obama's budget director is pointing to spending cuts in three programs as examples of the "tough choices" ahead in the White House budget blueprint that will propose lower spending overall but money for some new initiatives. Details from Jim Horney at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

Tags: Federal Drive , federal budget , 2011 budget , newsstand , Jim Horney , Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

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Republican plan would cut $32B from agency budgets

Congress must pass another funding measure to keep the government operating past March 4. House Republicans are calling for big cuts to current spending levels. This as President Obama gets set to release his 2012 budget request February 14.

Tags: budget , White House , Barack Obama , House , Paul Ryan , Tom Coburn , deficit , Jolie Lee , Senate , management

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Library of Congress has a map to treasure

A Washington businessman has shelled out 1.8 million bucks for the first U.S. map printed in the new United States of America. It was published in 1784, just six months after the Revolutionary War ended. The Library of Congress's John Herbert explains what it is that makes this map extra special.

Tags: Federal Drive , Library of Congress , LOC , John Hebert , map

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CATO: DoD may escape deep budget cuts

Research from the Cato Institute says that the new Republicans in Congress are not challenging defense spending.

Tags: Benjamin Friedman , Cato Institute , DoD Report , budget , age of austerity , Dorobek Insider

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Climate battle brews on the Hill

Two bills aimed at the EPA are in the Senate, but whether they create momentum or reveal a divide aren't clear. The Hill's Ben Geman explains.

Tags: Federal Drive , EPA , Ben Geman , The Hill

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Senators want IG probe of tanker data mixup

Seven senators have requested an independent investigation by the Defense Department's inspector general into the accidental disclosure of technical data to rival bidders Boeing and EADS in the Air Force's refueling tanker competition.

Tags: DoD , contracting , Air Force , Boeing , EADS , Wendy Masiello , Maria Cantwell , Jerry Moran , Pat Roberts , Lindsay Graham , Charles Schumer , refueling tanker , Procurement Integrity Act , Senate Armed Services Committee , Jared Serbu

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Congressional security & protective intelligence

Fred Burton, a former Special Agent with the Department of State's Diplomatic Security Service, joins host Derrick Dortch for a discussion on congressional security.
January 28, 2011

Tags: Fred Burton , Stratfor , State , security , Gabrielle Giffords

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