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Treasury officials told of IRS probe in June 2012

Tags: IRS , Steven Miller , Congress , House Ways and Means Committee

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House bill protects homeland security budget

Tags: DHS , DoD , Congress , budget , Harold Rogers

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House passes bill to prioritize US debt payments

Tags: debt ceiling , Congress , budget

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GSA pounded for not moving excess property faster

Lawmakers at a House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee held at the Georgetown Heating Plant, blasted the General Services Administration for its handling of excess federal properties.

Tags: Congress , House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee , Jeff Denham , GSA , real property , John Mica , Flavio Peres , Esther Carey

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Senate bill aims to speed up elimination of excess federal properties

Bipartisan legislation in the Senate aims to streamline the elimination of excess federal properties by setting up a council within agencies and the Office of Management and Budget and creating government-wide property disposal goals.

Tags: Tom Carper , excess property , Rob Portman , Tom Coburn , Mark Pryor , Mark Begich , Congress , Senate , Federal Real Property Asset Management Reform Act , OMB

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House chairman renews criticism of VA bonuses

Rep. Jeff Miller, chairman of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs, said that giving the government's top award for its senior professionals to VA regional director Michael Moreland showed there was no limit to the "VA's tone deafness."

Tags: Jeff Miller , House Committee on Veterans Affairs , Veterans Affairs Department , Carol Bonosaro , Senior Executives Assocation

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Congressman, former lobbyist get housing, FCC nods

Tags: Melvin Watt , FHFA , Congress , Barack Obama , Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac

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House committee to hold hearing on marathon attack

Tags: Congress , House Homeland Security Committee , Michael McCaul , Boston bombings

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Officials say threatened FAA towers to remain open

Tags: FAA , furloughs , sequestration , Congress , Senate

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Lawmakers take on legislative process in fight against duplicative programs

Two senators from the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee want to change Senate rules in an attempt to make sure new federal programs or initiatives in proposed legislation don't overlap with existing efforts. Earlier this month, two House members introduced a measure that would require House committees of jurisdiction to hold oversight hearings on an annual report from the Government Accountability Office detailing government duplication.

Tags: budget , oversight , Congress , Senate , Tom Coburn , Gary Peters , Cory Gardner , duplication , GAO , Jack Moore

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