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House budget plan includes fed pay freeze extension
House Republicans unveiled a stopgap government funding measure Monday. The measure would extend the federal pay freeze and leave in place automatic sequestration cuts but would award the Defense and Veterans Affairs departments their detailed 2013 budgets while other agencies would be frozen at 2012 levels -- and then bear the across-the-board cuts. The current continuing resolution expires March 27.
Tags: budget , sequestration , pay freeze , DoD , Veterans Affairs , House , House Appropriations Committee , President Barack Obama
Six-month CR makes extension of fed pay freeze official
The six-month stopgap spending bill unveiled by the House Appropriations Committee this week officially continues the federal pay freeze until at least March. The continuing resolution, which runs through March 27, gives lawmakers more time to make appropriations for the coming year and staves off the threat of a government shutdown. When a broad CR was first announced last month, the full Congress had not yet approved any fiscal 2013 spending bills. President Barack Obama proposed last month a 0.5 percent pay raise that would only take effect once Congress passed a 2013 budget — a de facto extension of the current two-year freeze. The CR makes the extension official.
Tags: Congress , budget , House , Senate , CR , Daniel Inouye , Jack Moore
President signs continuing resolution, extends pay freeze
President Barack Obama signed a continuing resolution Friday to fund government operations through March 27, 2013. The legislation represents a 0.6 percent across-the-board increase above fiscal 2012 levels. It also extends the federal pay freeze.
Tags: budget , continuing resolution , pay freeze , Federal Drive , Colleen Kelley , House Appropriations Committee , Barack Obama , Congress
Congress sputters on deficit cuts, spending bills
Tags: Patty Murray , John Boehner , super committee , Congress , House Appropriations Committee , budget 2012 , Social Security
Union: Thousands of IRS jobs on the budget line
One employee union says the proposed budget cuts could result in more than 8,000 job cuts at the agency.
Tags: budget , House , IRS , Treasury , Jolie Lee ,
DHS may not have the funding to work together
Homeland Security is asking for $75 million to consolidate operations and cut the number of leases from 180 to no more than 10. House lawmakers say the DHS and GSA did better in explaining how the funding would be used and where the savings would come from, but members of Congress say tight budgets may force them to spend on operational issues instead.
Tags: management , contracting , Elaine Duke , Bob Peck , David Price , DHS , GSA , House Appropriations Committee , USCG , St. Elizabeth's , DHS headquarters
Opinion: Why Rogers is bad for the Approps Committee
Republican Congressman Hal Rogers of Kentucky is in line to be the next head of the powerful House Appropriations Committee. David Silverberg of HS Today tells us why he thinks this is a bad idea.
Tags: House Appropriations Committee , Congressional Spotlight , David Silverberg , HS Today , Dorobek Insider
Interoperability: surmounting the Tower of Babel
Expectations clash with reality on Capital Hill on the issue of emergency communications interoperability.
Tags: mngt , FEMA , DHS , David Boyd , David Price , interoperability , communications , emergency management
OPM answers shutdown questions
The agency issued guidance to help employees understand specific pay and benefits questions. White House senior officials will meet again Wednesday to discuss budget proposals. House lawmakers also issued shutdown guidance.
Tags: management , pay and benefits , Jay Carney , Barack Obama , OMB , White House , OPM , Jason Miller , shutdown
House restores some e-gov funding in CR
Lawmakers included $17 million in the one-week bill to keep the government open. This is still short of the $35 million the administration requested, but it will help keep some of the open governments running.
Tags: technology , Jo Ann Emerson , Martha Johnson , House Appropriations Committee , GSA , OMB , E-Government Fund , open government , Jason Miller
