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Lawmakers call TSA screeners ineffective, rude
House members of both parties on Monday teed off against the agency in charge of airport and port anti-terrorist screening, saying it uses ineffective tactics, wastes money on faulty equipment and treats travelers rudely.
Tags: TSA , DHS , Congress , Darrell Issa
Committee approves House budget plan
The House Budget Committee approved a Republican proposal that calls for shrinking U.S. deficits to $3.1 trillion over the coming decade. The budget bill also calls for a 10 percent reduction of the federal workforce, an extension of the federal pay freeze and an increase of federal employees' contributions to their pension plans.
Tags: budget , Congress , House Budget Committee , workforce , retirement , Paul Ryan , DoD , Michael OConnell
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 , Congressional Budget Office , budget , Paul Ryan , Congress , Medicaid
Analysis: GOP cuts will only be deeper compared to sequestration
Steve Bell, senior director of the Economic Policy Project at the Bipartisan Policy Center, told The Federal Drive with Tom Temin that unless something dramatic happens the budget will have about $1 trillion for the next 10 years.
Tags: budget , Steve Bell , Bipartisan Policy Center , Federal Drive , sequestration , deficit , Congress , Paul Ryan
House GOP plans to protect DoD from more cuts
The budget proposal House Republicans are planning to unveil next week will include provisions that would rescue the Defense Department from further budget cuts.
Tags: DoD , DoD Update , Paul Ryan , Leon Panetta , Federal Drive , Congress , budget
Analysis: Incremental approach on cyber legislation more effective
Paul Rosenzweig, a visiting fellow at the Heritage Foundation and the former the deputy assistant secretary for policy at the Homeland Security Department, joined In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss competing cybersecurity legislation in both the House and Senate.
Tags: Paul Rosenzweig , cybersecurity , Heritage Foundation , Mike Rogers , Senate , Congress , SECURE IT Act , In Depth
Analysis: House GOP battles to write budget bill it can live with
Bob Cusack, managing editor at The Hill newspaper, tells The Federal Drive with Tom Temin that House Republicans are at odds over their election-year budget.
Tags: Congress , Bob Cusack , The Hill , Federal Drive , budget
After defending federal cuts, lawmaker responds to angry email comments
Rep. Dennis Ross (R-Fla.) is defending himself after responding to a op-ed piece in the Washington Post that claimed some members of Congress are attacking feds unfairly. Tom Shoop, the editor-in-chief of Government Executive, which orignally posted Ross' remarks, joined In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss the developments.
Tags: Congress , workforce , Tom Shoop , GovExec , Jason Ullner , Dennis Ross
Highway bill fails to clear hurdle in Senate
The government's power to spend federal Highway Trust Fund money on transportation programs and to levy federal gas and diesel taxes that support the trust fund are due to expire March 31.
Tags: transportation bill , Harry Reid , John Boehner , Congress , Senate , Highway Trust Fund
House probes OPM management, IT in wake of fellowship debacle
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), who chairs the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said a recent mishap involving the Presidential Management Fellowship not only threatens the program's prestige but could point to larger technology issues within OPM.
Tags: Congress , technology , IT , Darrell Issa , House Oversight and Government Reform Committee , USAJobs , retirement backlog , Dennis Ross , John Berry , Presidential Management Fellowship
