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Congress sputters on deficit cuts, spending bills

Tags: Hal Rogers , John Boehner , super committee , Congress , House Appropriations Committee , budget 2012 , Social Security

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Senators call for probe into veteran-owned contracting

Three senators are calling for a Government Accountability Office investigation to ensure federal contracts are actually going to businesses owned by veterans and service-disabled vets.

Tags: Claire McCaskill , Maria Cantwell , Senate , VA , SBA , veteran-owned business , contracting , acquisition , Small Business Act

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Cuts to federal pay may hurt public services, CBO warns supercommittee

A rare public hearing of the supercommittee suggests members aren't close to developing a plan to cut more than $1 trillion from the federal deficit over 10 years. Congressional Budget Office Director Doug Elmendorf warned them that cuts to discretionary funding, including feds' pay, would not solve the problem.

Tags: Congress , pay and benefits , supercommittee , CBO , budget , House , Senate , Jeb Hensarling , Doug Elmendorf , Emily Kopp

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Senators fight DoD hiring freeze

Democratic Senators, led by Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.), say Panetta's plan breaks the law.

Tags: Leon Panetta , DoD , hiring freeze , budget , Barbara Mikulski , Claire McCaskill , Tom Harkin , Sherrod Brown , Jory Heckman

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Sen. Murray: hiring veteran heroes necessary, smart

Unemployment by returning members of the military is too high. Senator Patty Murray is moving to change that.

Tags: Federal Drive , Defense , veterans , sen. patty murray , Senate Armed Services Committee , veterans unemployment , Congress , DoD

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House bill to strengthen vet job training

A bill introduced this week in the House would improve training for veterans and change hiring practices to favor veterans.

Tags: Sanford Bishop , Hiring Heroes Act of 2011 , VA , job training , hiring , Congress , Jolie Lee

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Faster VA-DoD disability evaluations still far off

Leaders in the Defense and Veterans Affairs departments say a new system that will let them jointly evaluate the disabilities of wounded servicemembers is a vast improvement over old procedures, but it will take another year or two before they can meet their goal of evaluating disabilities within 300 days.

Tags: pay and benefits , DoD , VA , Congress , integrated disability evaluation system , Bill Lynn , Scott Gould , Scott Brown , electronic health record , technology , Jared Serbu , DoD Report

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