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Comparing 2013 budget proposals
Issues related to federal employees and their pay and benefits have played a starring role in the competing budget proposals introduced by the White House and lawmakers alike. Find highlights from how the proposed budgets would affect federal employees as well as how they've fared so far in Congress
Tags: budget , 2013 budget , pay and benefits , Barack Obama , Paul Ryan , retirement , Jim Jordan , Emanuel Cleaver , Congressional Black Caucus , Republican Study Committee , Steve LaTourette , Chris Van Hollen , sequestration
Analysis: Lots of budget talk, no action until lame duck
Mike Lillis of the Hill newspaper told The Federal Drive with Tom Temin and Emily Kopp that lawmakers are just jockeying for campaign fodder with all this budget talk. Don't expect anything big to happen until after the election.
Tags: Mike Lillis , The Hill , Federal Drive , budget , Paul Ryan , Simpson-Bowles , Barack Obama , Steve LaTourette , Michael OConnell
Lawmakers debate pay cutoff for budget gridlock
Tags: Susan Collins , Joe Lieberman , Ben Cardin , Congress , Senate , budget
Proposal to cut federal workforce raises concerns
Some call the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee's approval of a 10 percent cut in the federal workforce is a political statement. Others worry it portends cuts in federal pay, benefits or jobs. Federal employees' groups have stepped up lobbying efforts.
Tags: Dennis Ross , Colleen Kelley , NTEU , Jessica Klement , FMA , House Oversight and Government Reform Commitee , Reducing the Size of the Federal Government Throug , Congress , workforce , Robert Tobias , American University , Emily Kopp
Hill supports a National Fiscal Reform Task Force
Fixing the fiscal future
Tags: newsstand , David Walker , Kent Conrad , Frank Wolf , George Voinovich , Peterson Foundation , IOUSA , Comptroller General
Experts push financial reporting overhaul
A financial accounting task force said the government's accounts are too hard to understand and are misleading. A House Oversight subcommittee held the first of a series of hearings on making agency spending data more transparent and more user-friendly.
Tags: management , financial management , Todd Platts , House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform , FASAB , OMB , consolidated financial report , Jonathan Breul , GPRA , Meg Beasley
