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Debt panel's demise sets up partisan wrangling
Tags: Senate , budget , supercommittee , House Armed Services Committee , Buck McKeon , Olympia Snow , Senate Finance Committee
Omnibus approach likely for remaining spending bills
Despite the successful passage last week of a small group of annual spending bills covering several federal agencies' 2012 budgets, Congress will likely fold the remaining bills into a single omnibus.
Tags: Congress , Senate , appropriations , budget , Erik Wasson , The Hill , continuing resolution , omnibus spending bill , minibus spending bill , Jack Moore
Godzilla's gonna get you ... or not
Admit it, have you been losing sleep over the activities of the congressional supercommittee? If not, you may be on the right track, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says.
Tags: Mike Causey , Federal Report , Congress , supercommittee , Senate , pay and benefits
Bill averts shutdown, funds some agencies at 2012 levels
A government shutdown was averted Thursday when Congress approved a compromise spending bill. The bill funds the departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Transportation, HUD, Justice, and some smaller agencies through the end of the fiscal year. The rest of the government will operate on another short-term continuing resolution, which will expire Dec. 16.
Tags: Federal Drive , budget , Senate , Congress , appropriations , Jack Moore
'Minibus' Congressional appropriations by the numbers
The House and the Senate voted to approve appropriations bills for Agriculture; Commmerce, Justice and Science agencies; and the Departments of Transportation and Housing and Urban Development. Taken together this is the "minibus."
Tags: Congress , Senate , budget , appropriations
Congress hops aboard the minibus
Congress crafted a partial measure to fund some agencies through fiscal year 2012 and extend a continuing resolution for others. Erik Wasson of The Hill acknowledges that the current budget process has been the most complicated he's seen.
Tags: Erik Wasson , The Hill , supercommittee , Congress , Senate , OMB , Jack Lew , John McCain , budget 2012 , Michael OConnell , DoD
Details about supercommittee cuts remain elusive
With a week until the deficit panel's deadline, Bill Frenzel, a guest scholar of economic studies at the Brookings Institution, said details about what will be cut and by how much remain up in the air. "At the point, we don't know where any of these axes are going to fall," he said.
Tags: Congress , Senate , budget , supercommittee , Bill Frenzel , Brookings Institution , Federal Drive , Tom Temin , Amy Morris
House expected to pass bill to help unemployed vets
The Associated Press reports that the House is expected to overwhelming support a bill that would help unemployed vets and government contractors. The Senate has already passed the bill.
Tags: DoD , DoD Report , Federal Drive , Congress ,
OPM to hire CTO to handle USAJobs, retirement system
The Office of Personnel Management faces a House subcommittee today to answer questions about its handling of the USAJobs relaunch.
Tags: OPM , USAJobs , technology , workforce , hiring , Emily Kopp , Patrick McFarland , Valerie Melvin , Patrick Manzo , John Berry , Stephen Lynch , Dennis Ross , Connie Mack , House Oversight and Government Reform Committee , Monster Government Solutions , cybersecuirty
Key senator says another FAA shutdown possible
Another shutdown of the Federal Aviation Administration is possible because lawmakers haven't resolved a labor issue that's holding up passage of a long-term funding bill for the agency, a key senator said Monday.
Tags: FAA , Jay Rockefeller , John Mica , budget , Congress , Senate
