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Rep. Cuellar pushing for performance based budgeting
Texas Democrat's bill would modernize how the government appropriates, measures funding. Agency progress with financial management oversight improves slightly, but still no consolidated audit opinion.
Tags: mngt , Henry Cuellar , Diana Watson , Gene Dodaro , Richard Gregg , DHS , DoD , NASA , House Oversight and Government Reform Committee , GAO , Army Corps of Engineers , financial management , audit opinion , CFO Act , Performance based budgeting
FederalNewsRadio Exclusive: Steering the Stimulus
In the face of an economic crisis, FederalNewsRadio asks three men leading recovery efforts about the latest in their efforts to meet the mission and how they'll know when it has been accomplished.
Tags: Danny Werfel , Neil Barofsky , Relmond Van Daniker , SIGTARP , OMB , federalreporting.gov , mngt , stimulus , Jane Norris , Suzanne Kubota
Secure Internet portal services not available until August
Agencies will not be able to purchase secure Internet portal services through the Networx telecommunications contract before August.
Tags: technology , contracting , Frank Tiller , GSA , OMB , DHS , VA , Qwest , AT&T , Sprint , L3 , Verizon , Diana Gowen , telecommunications , Networx , cybersecurity , Internet connections
White House works to change online transactions
The White House is leading a new effort to secure online transactions across the federal, state and local governments and eventually in the private sector. The creation of the new document is being led by cybersecurity coordinator Howard Schmidt and includes DHS. It is one way the administration hopes to improve cybersecurity. OMB soon will release a new approach to measuring FISMA compliance.
Tags: technology , Vivek Kundra , Howard Schmidt , Diane Watson , Tom Lockwood , OMB , White House Cybersecurity Coordinator , House Oversight and Government Reform Committee , DHS , Defense , State , DoJ , USPS , GPO , DEA , USPTO , FISMA , cybersecurity , National Strategy for Secure Online Transactions , PKI , Federal Bridge
NTEU warns against the loss of IRS jobs, revenue
The union that represents IRS workers is ramping up a public campaign in hopes of convincing voters that the loss of 4,000 tax collectors and agents would be bad for government services that they depend on. Congressional appropriators have proposed cutting the division's budget by $450 million-to-$600 million.
Tags: IRS , budget , Congress , NTEU , Colleen Kelley , Dick Durbin , Doug Shulman , dodd-frank act , SEC , Senate Appropriations Committee , House Appropriations Committee , Emily Kopp
Geithner says LIBOR investigation complex
Tags: Tim Geithner , management , people
TARP inspector general: Federal regulators need to 'stay vigilant'
Acting Special Inspector General for the TARP program Christy Romero joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin and Amy Morris to discuss the latest IG report on how the Treasury Department handled banks who exited the program.
Tags: Christy Romero , TARP , bank bailout , Federal Drive , Tom Temin , Amy Morris
Report: Taxpayers still owed $133B from bailout
Tags: Christy Romero , TARP , bank bailout , tim massad , FDIC , Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
As TARP winds down, GAO eyes Treasury's to-do list
Nikki Clowers, GAO's director of financial markets and community investment issue, joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin and Amy Morris to discuss the recommendations that have gone unheeded.
Tags: GAO , nikki clowers , TARP
Treasury: Trillion-dollar coin would not be legal
Treasury Department spokesman Anthony Coley said Saturday that neither his department nor the Federal Reserve believes the law can or should be used to produce such a $1 trillion coin to avoid a coming battle with Congress over government borrowing.
Tags: Federal Reserve , debt ceiling , budget , Congress
