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FEHBP best buys, feds' future after supercommittee
Health insurance expert Walton Francis joins host Mike Causey on today's program. He will help you navigate the "best buys" for singles, couples, large families, retirees with and without Medicare, and people who are taking risks by using their private sector spouses health plan.
Tags: pay and benefits , Mike Causey , Your Turn with Mike Causey , Walton Francis , Stephen Losey , Federal Times , FEHBP ,
Analysis: Feds can expect more furloughs, buyouts in 2012
Steve Losey is a reporter with Federal Times. He brings a recap of the supercommittee stalemate and what the deficit could mean for federal employees.
Tags: Steve Losey , Federal Times , pay and benefits , Your Turn , sequestration , budget , furlough , buyout
Analysis: Threat of 'abrupt' cuts will hang over DoD for next year
Todd Harrison, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin and Amy Morris to discuss how sequestration will affect defense managers and contractors. He said the threat of automatic, across-the-board cuts from sequestration will hang over DoD for the next year.
Tags: Todd Harrison , CSBA , DoD , budget , sequestration , Federal Drive , Tom Temin , Amy Morris , industry , acquisition , Congress , Jack Moore
Supercommittee failure could hurt feds' image
Tom Shoop is the editor-in-chief of Government Executive.
Tags: Tom Shoop , Government Executive , budget , Congress , In Depth
Moran: Budget cuts to force out 'best and brightest' feds
Rep. Jim Moran (D-Va.) expressed frustration with the "dysfunctional" state of Congress today, blaming lawmakers who he said shouldn't be legislating in the first place.
Tags: Jim Moran , Congress , House , budget , pay and benefits , In Depth , management , appropriations
Defense hawks insist on sparing military from cuts
Tags: DoD , Mitch McConnell , Leon Panetta , John McCain , Howard McKeon , Harry Reid , budget , House Armed Services Committee , John Boehner , G. William Hoagland
Supercommittee's failure to reach deal brings range of reactions
The administration, lawmakers and others are sounding off on the failure of the supercommittee to reach a deal for cutting more than $1 trillion from the deficit. Facing automatic, across-the-board cuts — half from defense and half from civilian agencies, beginning in 2013 — the consensus now seems to be Congress should work to come up with an alternative deficit-reduction plan.
Tags: Congress , House , Senate , budget , deficit reduction , TechAmerica , DoD , Leon Panetta , Barack Obama , sequestration , FMA , Patricia Niehaus , Jack Moore
Feds should plan for worst case scenario, expert says
Between ongoing 2012 budget negotiations and the automatic cuts triggered by the supercommittee, Steve Bell, senior director of the Bipartisan Policy Center's Economic Policy Project, says this is as good as it's going to get for federal employees for the foreseeable future.
Tags: Steve Bell , Bipartisan Policy Center , Congress , budget , Michael OConnell , Federal Drive
Debt panel's demise sets up partisan wrangling
Tags: House , Senate , budget , House Armed Services Committee , Buck McKeon , Olympia Snow , Senate Finance Committee
Godzilla's gonna get you ... or not
Admit it, have you been losing sleep over the activities of the congressional supercommittee? If not, you may be on the right track, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says.
Tags: Mike Causey , Federal Report , Congress , House , Senate , pay and benefits
