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Congress tells agencies to check creditworthiness of employees

Provision in 2010 omnibus spending bill requires credit checks on employees before giving them a government credit card. Law also requires agencies to create service contract inventories, and fully funds the E-Government Fund for the first time in eight years.

Tags: management , contracting , technology , pay and benefits , OMB , OPM , GSA , DoD , AFGE , John Gage , omnibus spending bill , E-Government Fund , Agency credit card , service contract inventory , BRAC , A-76 , insourcing , Internet cookies

Monday - 10/17/2011, 01:08pm EDT

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Following the job creation blow by blow

Job creation numbers in the stimulus are at the center of a storm.

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Friday - 09/30/2011, 10:47am EDT

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Lawmakers try to water-down the pay freeze

Former Virginia Congressman Tom Davis said federal employees are on the chopping block because they are easy prey. Davis, now a director with Deloitte and Touche, said a letter from the Washington-D.C. area delegation could impact the potential two-year pay freeze the White House is proposing. The eight House members say feds are being targeted unfairly to help reduce the deficit.

Tags: pay and benefits , Jack Lew , Steny Hoyer , Frank Wolf , House Appropriations Committee , OMB , Tom Davis , Deloitte and Touche , pay freeze , federal benefits , Jason Miller

Monday - 07/18/2011, 06:27pm EDT

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Pay freeze proposal advances to Senate

The House measure wraps all the unfinished annual spending bills into a single catchall measure while freezing spending at last year's levels. One of the biggest surprises in the act is the inclusion of a two year pay freeze as proposed by President Obama.

Tags: pay and benefits , government , Congress , FY 2011 budget , FY 2011 , pay debate , pay freeze , agency funding , management , Suzanne Kubota , Congressional Spotlight , budget