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Obama wants more certainty on Syrian chemical arms

Tags: Barack Obama , debt ceiling , budget

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Obama budget: Spending cuts, higher smokers' taxes

Tags: budget , sequestration , Barack Obama , Congress , chained CPI , Social Security , COLAs

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Obama urges stopgap budget deal to avoid deep cuts

Tags: Barack Obama , budget , Congress , Congressional Budget Office , sequestration , Harry Reid

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Obama, Romney define role of government during presidential debate

President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney contrasted their approaches in how they would reduce the federal deficit and how they defined what the role of the federal government is during a nationally televised debate Wednesday night.

Tags: President Barack Obama , Mitt Romney , debate , election , Federal Drive , workforce , budget , Office of Management and Budget , Michael OConnell

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Congress warned of recession from budget stalemate

Tags: budget , CBO

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Analysis: GSA scandal detracts from bigger issue - budget deficit

Doug Holtz-Eakin, the former CBO director, discusses the latest CBO projections for the federal budget deficit.

Tags: Doug Holtz-Eakin , CBO , budget , Federal Drive , GSA , Jolie Lee

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GOP budget plan extends federal pay freeze, changes retirement benefits

The Republican budget plan for fiscal 2013 calls for a pay freeze through 2015, changes to federal retirement contributions and a cut to the federal workforce.

Tags: budget , Paul Ryan , Barack Obama , pay and benefits

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Analysis: GOP cuts will only be deeper compared to sequestration

Steve Bell, senior director of the Economic Policy Project at the Bipartisan Policy Center, told The Federal Drive with Tom Temin that unless something dramatic happens the budget will have about $1 trillion for the next 10 years.

Tags: budget , Steve Bell , Bipartisan Policy Center , Federal Drive , sequestration , House , Congress , Paul Ryan

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Obama requests $1.2T hike in borrowing limit

Tags: Congress , Barack Obama , debt limit , budget ,

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Federal words of the year: Freeze, shutdown, Congress

If you ask about federal employees what the biggest story of 2011, the words that cropped up the most were: freeze, shutdown and Congress, according to a Federal News Radio open-ended response survey.

Tags: Congress , 2011 and Beyond , pay and benefits , pay freeze , shutdown , survey

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