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OMB: Contingency operations subject to sequestration
The Office of Management and Budget has reiterated to lawmakers that the automatic, across-the-board budget cuts known as sequestration will apply to wartime funding. In a June 15 letter, to Rep. Buck McKeon, the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, Office of Management and Budget Acting Director Jeff Zients wrote that the Budget Control Act allowed no "flexibility" to exempt Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO), from sequestration.
Tags: Congress , House , OCO , contingency operations , Buck McKeon , Mike Rogers , sequestration , budget , Jeff Zients , OMB , Jack Moore
Hearing offers suggestions for reducing Medicare waste, fraud
Errors, waste, and fraud in the Medicare system was the topic of conversation before the House Ways and Means Subcommittees on Health and Oversight today.
Tags: House Ways and Means Committee , Medicare , Peter Roskam , Ron Klein , Scott Murphy , Pete Stark , HHS , GAO , CMS , DoJ
