Search Tags:  Congressional Budget Office

Veterans fight changes to disability payments

Tags: Veterans Affairs , Jeff Miller , Congress , Bernie Sanders

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Obama urges stopgap budget deal to avoid deep cuts

Tags: Barack Obama , budget , Congress , deficit , sequestration , Harry Reid

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Bernanke prods Congress to raise debt ceiling

Tags: Ben Bernanke , Federal Reserve , budget , Paul Ryan

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Hitting the debt limit: What bills would be paid?

Tags: President Barack Obama , debt ceiling , budget , management , Congress , Social Security

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DoD understimates future costs, report says

The Congressional Budget Office looked at the Defense Department's plans for the next five years. It said they would cost DoD $123 billion, or 5 percent more than the department thinks.

Tags: DoD , DoD Report , Federal Drive

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Datapalooza, the Data Navigator, and more

Niall Brennan, director for Policy and the Data Analytics Group at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will talk about how to process large volumes of data.
April 17, 2012

Tags: technology , data management , big data , Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services , Datapalooza , transparency , Brookings Institute , data navigator , HiMSS , John Gilroy , Niall Brennan , Federal Tech Talk

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GOP Medicare plan borrows from and repeals Obama's

Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), the top GOP budget writer, borrowed the idea of insurance exchanges, a big pooled marketplace, from the health care law enacted in Massachusetts when GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney was governor. Ryan wants to set one up for Medicare.

Tags: retirement , Medicare , budget , Paul Ryan , Congress , House , Medicaid

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Preview of Roth TSP, January returns, pay freeze vote

Host Mike Causey is joined by Tom Trabucco, director of external affairs for Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board, and Federal Times senior writer Stephen Losey.
February 1, 2012

Tags: pay and benefits , Tom Trabucco , TSP , Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board , Federal Times , Stephen Losey , pay debate , pay freeze , federal salaries , 401(k) , Mike Causey , Your Turn with Mike Causey

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Cutting deficits harder than just talking about it

Lawmakers are poised to spend $120 billion or so to renew a Social Security tax cut that averaged just under $1,000 per household this year.

Tags: John Boehner , Barack Obama , budget , Joe Biden , supercommittee , Robert Reischauer , Howard McKeon , social security tax cut

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A glance at automatic spending cuts for 2013

The Congressional Budget Office says caps on new, Congress-approved spending on defense programs will be reduced from 10 percent in 2013 to 8.5 percent in 2021, with savings of $454 billion.

Tags: budget , supercommittee , DoD ,

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