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Senate approves huge 2013 spending bill, averting shutdown

Tags: Senate , budget , CR , Harry Reid , Barbara Mikulski

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GOP pillories administration's sequester prep

Tags: House , House Oversight and Government Reform Committee , Darrell Issa , sequestration , John Mica , Elijah Cummings

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Groups say veteran-owned contracting still broken

Veterans service organizations say despite attempts at improvement, the Department of Veterans Affairs' verification process for veteran-owned small businesses is still barring legitimate firms from contracts with the department, while doing little to deter actual fraud.

Tags: VA , acquisition , acquisition policy , SDVOSB , veterans , Service-disabled veteran owned small business , Joe Wynn , Davy Leghorn , Mark Goldschmitt , Center for Veterans Enterprise , Jared Serbu

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Progress slows on bill to avoid shutdown

Tags: budget , Paul Ryan , Barack Obama , Harry Reid

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Justice: Email snooping law no longer makes sense

The Justice Department on Tuesday dropped its support for a controversial provision in a federal law that allows police to review some private emails without a warrant, but it asked Congress to expand its surveillance powers in other ways.

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Whistleblowers allege wrongdoing at VA center

In the letter sent Monday to the White House and Congress, the Office of Special Counsel said an initial 2009 report by a whistleblower employee at the G.V. (Sonny) Montgomery VA Medical Center in Jackson, Miss., alleged that the staff routinely failed to properly clean and sterilize reusable medical equipment such as scalpels and bone cutters.

Tags: Veterans Affairs , whistleblower , Office of Special Counsel , Eric Shinseki ,

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Postal Service reform finds new life on Capitol Hill

Real reform for the U.S. Postal Service may be gaining some steam in Congress. Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-Texas), the new chairman of the House subcommittee that oversees the Postal Service, tells Federal News Radio, House leadership sees room for compromise with Democrats when it comes to figuring out ways to get USPS back in the black. Farenthold supports the Postal Service's plan to eliminate Saturday mail delivery.

Tags: House , USPS , postal reform , Blake Farenthold , Dennis Ross , Gerry Connolly , Claire McCaskill , Patrick Donahoe , Stephen Lynch , Sean McCalley , Jason Miller

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House opposes new BRAC round

Tags: DoD , House , Base Realignment and Closure , House Armed Services

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Lew hopeful on reaching a budget breakthrough

Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew said Thursday that he is optimistic that President Barack Obama will be able to reach an agreement with Republicans in Congress to break a budget impasse that's triggered across-the-board government spending cuts.

Tags: Jack Lew , Treasury , House , Senate

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Senate GOP tells Obama to tone down the attacks

Tags: Barack Obama , Senate , Senate Budget Committee , Patty Murray , budget , sequestration

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