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Connolly on BRAC, budget and benefits

Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) updates Federal News Radio on BRAC, the budget and other issues affecting federal workers.

Tags: Federal Drive , pay and benefits , Suzanne Kubota

Friday - 06/03/2011, 10:08am EDT

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Congress: Rightsizing debate should include feds and contractors

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle agree that federal contractors need to be a major part of the discussion on rightsizing the federal workforce. But, they have not yet come to terms with whether the debate is about just raw numbers or having the right number of employees doing an amount of work they can handle.

Tags: pay and benefits , industry , Stephen Lynch , Dennis Ross , Cynthia Lummis , Tom Marino , House Oversight and Government Reform Committee , William Dougan , NFFE , workforce , Jason Miller

Thursday - 05/26/2011, 04:51pm EDT

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Connolly: Pension proposal could hurt recruiting, retention

Tags: retirement , Congress , pay and benefits , Ruben Gomez

Wednesday - 05/18/2011, 06:30pm EDT

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Va. officials urged to sue over Mark Center move

A new Pentagon inspector general report finds "procedural and technical weaknesses" in the Army's traffic assessment surrounding its plans to move 6,400 Defense employees to a privately owned office complex in northern Virginia. Rep. Jim Moran, whose district includes the site, said the findings provide the underpinnings for local officials to sue the Pentagon to stop the move.

Tags: DoD , BRAC , Congress , Jim Moran , Army , Mark Center , inspector general , Jared Serbu , DoD Report

Friday - 04/22/2011, 07:43am EDT

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Inside Government - April 15th, 2011

Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.)
Everett Kelley
President, AFGE Department of Defense Local 1945
Bob Weiner
Former Clinton White House senior spokesman

Tags: pay and benefits , Inside Government , AFGE , Everett Kelley , Bob Weiner

Wednesday - 04/13/2011, 06:45pm EDT

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Rep. Connolly: what comes next for budget

Rep. Gerry Connolly from Virginia gives his take what comes next.

Tags: Federal Drive , budget , shutdown , pay and benefits , contracting

Monday - 04/11/2011, 08:51am EDT

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USPS makes a case for debt relief

The Postal Service asked Congress Tuesday to change laws requiring them to pre-pay health benefits and overfund the Federal Employees' Retirement System. Republicans say USPS needed to do much more to "right-size" its costs and operations.

Tags: management , pay and benefits , Congress , USPS , Patrick Donahoe , Darrell Issa , Louis Giuliano , James Miller , American Postal Workers' Union , FERS , Dennis Ross , Ed Towns , John Buckner

Wednesday - 04/06/2011, 07:46am EDT

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USPS makes a case for debt relief

The Postal Service asked Congress Tuesday to change laws requiring them to pre-pay health benefits and overfund the Federal Employees' Retirement System. Republicans say USPS needed to do much more to "right-size" its costs and operations.

Tags: management , pay and benefits , Congress , USPS , Patrick Donahoe , Darrell Issa , Louis Giuliano , James Miller , American Postal Workers' Union , FERS , Dennis Ross , Ed Towns , John Buckner