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Money savings in tax cut extension
The extension of the tax cuts signed into law recently by President Obama include a few money-savings for voters.
Tags: tax cut , payroll tax , Social Security , Energy , tax credit , stimulus , Recovery Act , Nathan Hager , wtop saves you money
Your agency's energy consumption, under the microscope
A Senate subcommittee wants to know how agencies are saving energy and money.
Tags: management , energy conservation , Executive Order 13514 , Senate Federal Financial Management subcommittee , Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs , Tom Carper , Nancy Sutley , White House Council on Environmental Quality , Richard Kidd , Department of Energy , Dorothy Robyn , Department of Defense , Sam Pulcrano , USPS , Max Cacas
President to order pay freeze
In an effort to get a handle on the ballooning cost of government, President Obama is expected to use his first State of the Union address to announce, among other things, freezes in pay for some White House officials, as well as a government-wide spending freeze. But one of the President's top budget experts says don't look for the freeze to affect all federal agencies equally.
Tags: management , State of the Union , Office of Management and Budget , Rob Nabors , Congressional Budget Office , National Press Club , Max Cacas , Jason Miller , budget
Federal labor unions say NSPS is toxic
With the clock ticking toward the Defense Business Board's final report on the National Security Personnel System, have attitudes changed among the federal labor unions who have been vehemently against it? Conversations with two union officials suggest the answer is "no".
Tags: P&B , John Gage , AFGE , NSPS , DoD , Bill Dougan , National Federation of Federal Employees , OPM , John Berry , Secretary Robert Gates ,
New Consumer Financial Protection Agency
Tags: Congress , Consumer Financial Protection Agency , Elizabeth Warren , Leo Gottlieb , Congressional Oversight Panel
Obama urges federal agencies to maintain scientific integrity
Tags: technology , Dr. John Holdren , Paul Hertz , NASA
President nominates Bernanke for second term
Tags: management , Ben Bernanke , Federal Reserve , Washington Post , Neal Irwin
Hathaway opens up about her decision to leave White House, cyber coordinator future role
Melissa Hathaway says her decision to leave had as much to do with fixing her work-life balance as it did with not getting cyber coordinator role. She says her impact from outside the government can be meaningful and significant. Hathaway has opened her own consulting firm and will work with Harvard and MIT on research and writing.
Tags: technology , mngt , Melissa Hathaway , James Jones , John Brennan , Lawrence Summers , White House , DoD , DHS , NSC , National Economic Council , cybersecurity
House panel probes dual-roles of National Archives
When you hear "National Archives" what do you immediately think of? A place to find government records? A museum to view historic artifacts like the original U.S. Constitution and Declaration of Independence? There are some who believe that these two missions of the National Archives work at cross-purposes to each other. A House subcommittee examined the conflict yesterday.
Tags: management , National Archives and Records Administration , David Ferriero , William Lacy Clay , House Information Policy, Census and National Arch , OGIS , Miriam Nesbit , OMB , Peter Orzag , Max Cacas
A spending plan that tries to cover all the bases
President Obama's newly released federal Budget for fiscal year 2011 has a number of "tall orders": spurring job creation, curbing fiscal spending, and reducing the federal deficit, all at the same time.
Tags: mngt , budget , Peter Orszag , OMB , Max Cacas
