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Recovery Act spending exceeds CBO's estimates

Actual spending of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds between February 2009 and September 2011 exceeded Congressional Budget Office estimates by $20 billion or about 4 percent, according to a post on the CBO Director's blog.

Tags: Recovery Act , CBO , Labor , USDA , Douglas Elmendorf

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Seven lessons from the Recovery Act

Ed DeSeve was the Special Advisor to the President for Recovery Implementation and is now the President of the Global Public Leadership Institute. He writes about the lessons learned in a new report by the IBM Center for the Business of Government.

Tags: Ed DeSeve , Recovery Act , In Depth , transparency , management , budget , best practices

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Online forum seeks ideas to prevent stimulus funding abuse

The Recovery Board and the National Academy of Public Administration want your ideas on how to prevent waste, fraud, and abuse of Recovery Act funds.

Tags: Laurie May , National Academy of Public Administration , In Depth , Recovery Act , oversight , management , best practices

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Stimulus strains contracting workforce

You knew the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act would be more work. But no one knew just how much work the stimulus bill would create for federal agencies and whether they would have the capacity to carry it out. That task fell to the Inspector General at the Commerce Department.

Tags: mngt , acquisition , contracting , ARRA , best practices , oversight , IG , Commerce , grants , Todd Zinser

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Countdown to meet Recovery Act requirements begun

Several reporting mandates coming due in May and July

Tags: technology , management , Earl Warrington , John Murphy , OMB , Recovery Act oversight board , IRMCO , NAPA , Recovery Act , Recovery.gov , data management , XForms , Atom Syndication Format

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Non-performing doesn't mean unfunded

Tags: mngt , PART , Jonathan Breul , IBM Global Business Services

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GAO: Stimulus contractors owe millions in back taxes

A Government Accountability Office report to be released Tuesday finds contractors who received stimulus funds have more than $757 million in back taxes.

Tags: Tom Coburn , Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations , GAO , TARP , IRS , taxes , Jolie Lee , oversight

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How GAO identified tax-deliquent stimulus contractors

Greg Kutz, the Managing Director of GAO's Forensic Audits and Special Investigations team, explained how contractors were evaluated for the report.

Tags: taxes , TARP , GAO , Greg Kutz , accountability , tax-delinquent , contracting , grantees , In Depth

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Happy (Fiscal) New Year: A look back at FY2010

The Committee for Federal Responsible Budget recaps FY2010.

Tags: Must Reads , Dorobek Insider , Committee for Federal Responsible Budget , FY2010 , budget , deficit

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