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Senate committee seeks expert testimony on DoD budget

The Senate Budget Committee examined the FY 2013 budget request for the Defense Department Tuesday. Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) said providing funding for national security is the "single most important responsibility" of lawmakers and the government. Three expert witnesses also testified.

Tags: Senate , Congress , DoD , budget , Senate Budget Committee , James Carafano , Brookings Institution , Heritage Foundation , David Barno , Defense

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Hill supports a National Fiscal Reform Task Force

Fixing the fiscal future

Tags: newsstand , David Walker , Frank Wolf , Jim Cooper , George Voinovich , Peterson Foundation , IOUSA , Comptroller General

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'Gang of Six' senators united in solving fiscal woes

Mark Plotkin, WTOP political analyst

Tags: Mark Plotkin , Gang of Six , Mark Warner , Richard Durbin , Tom Coburn , Mike Crapo , Saxby Chambliss , Dick Durbin

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Healthcare Reform Opens Pandora's Box

Federal employees are going to have a new and complicated mission to figure out a way to apply the nation's rules, regulations, and laws.

Tags: healthcare reform , Mary Landrieu , Medicare

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Joan Benoit Samuelson and Sen. Charles Grassley

Tags: Joan Samuelson Benoit , Healthier Feds , Charles Grassley ,

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