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Supercommittee Tracker
Track recommendations on federal pay, benefits and retirement made to the supercommittee by top Congressional leaders and the White House.
Tags: supercommittee , management , budget , Congress , House , Senate , Elijah Cummings , Susan Collins , Barack Obama , Darrell Issa , House Oversight and Government Reform Committee , pay and benefits , retirement , workforce , hiring , deficit , Jolie Lee , Jack Moore
Senators' USPS plan cuts staff, refunds FERS overpayments
Senators announced a bipartisan plan Wednesday to help keep the financially ailing Postal Service solvent while offering incentives to trim its workforce.
Tags: Susan Collins , Tom Carper , Senate , Senate Homeland and Governmental Affairs Committee , USPS , workforce , pay and benefits , FERS , Emily Kopp
Senators offer plan to keep Postal Service solvent
Tags: Senate , Congress , USPS , workforce , pay and benefits
Unions once again urge supercommittee to save feds' pay, benefits
Lawmakers charged with reducing the federal deficit should look to contractors' compensation rather than reduce government workers' pay and benefits, a coalition of federal unions and management associations wrote in a letter to supercommittee leaders.
Tags: Susan Collins , pay and benefits , Federal-Postal Coalition , supercommittee , House Oversight and Government Reform Committee , Congress , budget , Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee , Emily Kopp , deficit , hiring , workforce
Bill would require greater use of strategic sourcing
The Acquisitions Reform Bill would require more robust use of Federal Strategic Sourcing vehicles — which allow the government to consolidate its shopping lists and buy in bulk, rather than have each agency pursue its own procurements.
Tags: acquisition , acquisition policy , Scott Brown , Susan Collins , Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Commitee , strategic sourcing
Senate committee passes bills on improper payments, whistleblower protections
The new bill, passed in the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, would require more consistent reporting of improper payments by federal agencies.
Tags: budget , Congress , Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Improvement Act of 2011 , Tom Carper , Senate , whistleblower protection , employee rotations , workforce , SES , management
DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano offers answers about future of her agency
Workforce reforms, SBINet two issues Senate Homeland Security Committee wanted her to talk about.
Tags: management , best practices , cybersecurity , Congress , homeland security , DHS , Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Co , Susan Collins , Janet Napolitano
One more year of pay freeze, contracting cuts in Senate committee recs
A Senate committee is recommending the super committee consider one more year of a federal pay freeze, increases to retirement contributions and a 15 percent cut to contracting at agencies.
Tags: Congress , super committee , Susan Collins , pay and benefits , pay freeze , budget , management , workforce , Jolie Lee , Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government , senate homeland security and governmental affairs , senate homeland security and governmental affairs , Senate
Beefing up the security force
Beefing up the security force for many federal facilities. Federal News Radio's Max Cacas with an exclusive interview with a lawmaker who is leading the way.
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Obama's Israel stance may cost Democrats
Mark Plotkin, WTOP political analyst
Tags: Mark Plotkin , Barack Obama , Benjamin Netanyahu , Israel , Steny Hoyer , Eric Cantor , John Boehner
