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Omnibus lumbers forward despite potential political pitfalls
Alexander Bolton of The Hill newspaper calls Senate Majority Leader Reid's omnibus package as "only way to get these appropriations bills passed."
Tags: Alexander Bolton , Harry Reid , John Boehner , Congress , Senate , budget , appropriations , Michael OConnell
House bill to create public safety broadband network
In the aftermath of Sept. 11, 2011, emergency responders found they could not communicate with each other. A decade later, that problem persists.
Tags: Henry Waxman , Anna Eshoo , D-block , FCC , broadband network , public safety , first responders , technology , Congress , Sept. 11
House votes to ease airport screening for troops
he bill, approved 404-0, would give the Homeland Security Department six months to devise a preference system for the Armed Forces.
Tags: DoD , TSA , Chip Cravaak , DHS , Congress
Top GOP aide for House panel has ties to Solyndra
Tags: Energy , Fred Upton , Steven Chu , Solyndra , House Energy and Commerce Committee
Post-supercommittee, Congress behind on budget work
With the failure of the supercommittee — tasked with cutting $1.2 trillion from the federal deficit — to strike a deal, Congress is back to square one, said David Hawkings, editor of the CQ Roll Call Daily Briefing in an interview on In Depth with Francis Rose.
Tags: Congress , Senate , budget , supercommittee , David Hawkings , CQ Roll Call
House to vote on bill modifying FECA
If enacted, H.R. 2465 would make several changes to the Federal Employees' Compensation Act, including allowing assistants and nurses to certify disabilities.
Tags: FECA , George Miller , Tim Walberg , Lynn Woolsey , benefits , health care
Supercommitee no-go adds to federal managers' budget woes
Bernie Becker, a staff writer for The Hill newspaper, joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin and Amy Morris to discuss the myriad budget uncertainties facing Congress and federal agencies.
Tags: Congress , Senate , budget , Federal Drive , Tom Temin , Amy Morris , Bernie Becker , The Hill
What's the next fight in Congress?
Congress' failed deficit-cutting supercommittee has faded away, but the pressure on lawmakers to quickly confront a stack of expensive economic issues is only growing, including keeping the government open past a mid-December funding deadline.
Tags: Congress , Senate , budget
Moran: Budget cuts to force out 'best and brightest' feds
Rep. Jim Moran (D-Va.) expressed frustration with the "dysfunctional" state of Congress today, blaming lawmakers who he said shouldn't be legislating in the first place.
Tags: Jim Moran , Congress , supercommittee , budget , pay and benefits , In Depth , management , appropriations
Supercommittee's failure to reach deal brings range of reactions
The administration, lawmakers and others are sounding off on the failure of the supercommittee to reach a deal for cutting more than $1 trillion from the deficit. Facing automatic, across-the-board cuts — half from defense and half from civilian agencies, beginning in 2013 — the consensus now seems to be Congress should work to come up with an alternative deficit-reduction plan.
Tags: Congress , Senate , budget , supercommittee , deficit reduction , TechAmerica , DoD , Leon Panetta , Barack Obama , sequestration , FMA , Patricia Niehaus , Jack Moore
