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Joint Chiefs welcome House fiscal 2013 budget proposal
The lower chamber's bill would significantly soften the blow against DoD and potentially eliminate current plans such as civilian furloughs because of the automatic budget cuts. The remainder of the government would remain under both sequestration and a full-year continuing resolution.
Tags: DoD , sequestration , Congress , continuing resolution , Ray Odierno , Jonathan Greenert , Mark Welsh , James Amos , Jared Serbu , House Appropriations Committee , Veterans Affairs
Military leaders welcome House GOP budget bill
Tags: Congress , budget , sequestration , Ray Odierno , Joint Chiefs of Staff
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 Appropriations Committee , Hal Rogers , President Barack Obama
House committee worried DoD, VA 'moving the goal posts' on e-health records
A House Veterans Affairs Committee hearing on the decision by the Defense and Veterans Affairs Departments to scale back plans for a joint integrated electronic-health records systems dredged up longstanding issues with the two departments' EHR efforts.
Tags: EHR , Roger Baker , health IT , technology , Congress , iEHR , Jeff Miller , Elizabeth McGrath
House Democrat to offer bill ending automatic cuts
Tags: Adam Smith , sequestration , Congress , budget
Military leaders say Congress must stop sequester
Tags: Congress , House Appropriations , DoD , sequestration , Joint Chiefs of Staff , Ray Odierno , Mark Welsh , Todd Harrison
Boehner says US veterans' claims system is broken
Tags: Congress , VA , VA claims backlog , John Boehner , Eric Shinseki
House votes to extend pay freeze for fed workers
Tags: Congress , pay , pay freeze , Ron DeSantis , workforce , Frank Wolf , Darrell Issa , Eleanor Holmes Norton , Colleen Kelley , NTEU
Fiscal cliff negotiators are facing high hurdles
The White House and leaders on the Hill will have to resolve deep political and fiscal disagreements that have stymied them time after time despite repeated promises to overcome them.
Tags: Barack Obama , John Boehner , Congress , budget , tax cuts , sequestration
Back to budgets, Ryan returns to comfortable topic
Tags: Paul Ryan , budget , John Boehner , fiscal cliff , Congress , sequestration
