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Analysis: House GOP battles to write budget bill it can live with
Bob Cusack, managing editor at The Hill newspaper, tells The Federal Drive with Tom Temin that House Republicans are at odds over their election-year budget.
Tags: Congress , House , Bob Cusack , Federal Drive , budget
Senators clash over cybersecurity bill
Brendan Sasso, a staff writer covering technology for the Hill newspaper, said Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz) and Kay Bailey Huchison (R-Texas) are criticizing the comprehensive bill for putting too much emphasis on regulations rather than promoting information sharing.
Tags: Brendan Sasso , cybersecurity , Kay Bailey Huchison , John McCain , Joe Lieberman , Susan Collins , technology , Federal Drive , Congress
Fed retirement hike to pay for unemployment insurance
The $15 billion generated by the 2.3 percent more that new employees would pay for their retirement would help pay for the extension of unemployment insurance.
Tags: payroll tax , Federal Drive , Bernie Becker , retirement
Budget is out: Now what?
Molly Hooper of the Hill newspaper has a roundup of what she's observing related to the budget.
Tags: Molly Hooper , Congress , budget
Agencies stick to 'modest' requests before President's budget release
The Library of Congress, Government Printing Office, Government Accountability Office and Congressional Budget Office testified before the House Appropriations Legislative Branch subcommittee Tuesday on their fiscal 2013 budget requests.
Tags: Molly Hooper , Congress , budget , Federal Drive
Analysis: Federal pay freeze vote to put pressure on payroll tax extension talks
The vote today in the House on another year of the federal pay freeze is meant to send a message to the conferees who are meeting on the payroll tax cut extension, says a reporter with The Hill newspaper.
Tags: Pete Kasperowicz , pay and benefits , pay freeze , Congress , Federal Drive
Plan to prevent sequestration unlikely before election
Every day that passes brings your agency a bit closer to automatic spending cuts under sequestration. If Congress can't figure something else out, the process of reducing spending by $1.2 trillion over 10 years will start, with the 2013 budget. But any deal to avoid sequestration probably won't happen anytime before the election, said Erik Wasson, reporter for the Hill newspaper
Tags: Erik Wasson , Congress , sequestration , budget , DoD , Norm Dicks , Federal Drive
Is cybersecurity bill on Congress' to-do list?
Jordy Yager, a reporter for the Hill, says that Congress's number one priority for 2012 is to present the president with a comprehensive cybersecurity bill.
Tags: Jordy Yager , Congress , DHS , cybersecurity , Federal Drive , technology
2011 a year of congressional showdowns
The year can be summed up by a trio of showdowns, said Peter Schroeder, a staff writer with The Hill newspaper, in an interview on Federal Drive with Tom Temin. The near-government shutdown in April, the August debt ceiling showdown and the last-minute wrangling over the payroll tax cut.
Tags: Congress , House , Senate , budget , Peter Schroeder , Tom Temin , Federal Drive , 2011 and Beyond
Hill update: Omnibus spending bill, payroll stalemate
Erik Wasson is a staff writer with The Hill.
Tags: Congress , Erik Wasson , Federal Drive , budget
