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Congressional leadership gets in mix of supercommittee negotiations
Emily Pierce is Senate editor at Roll Call.
Tags: Emily Pierce , Roll Call , In Depth , budget , Congress
Pentagon leaders defend withdrawal of US from Iraq
Tags: DoD , Leon Panetta , Congress , budget , Lindsey Graham , John McCain , Senate Armed Services Committee ,
Next two weeks crucial for agency budgets
Steve Bell, the senior director of economic policy at the Bipartisan Policy Center, joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin and Amy Morris to provide an update into how the supercommittee is coming along and what it all means for the federal budget and federal employees.
Tags: Bipartisan Policy Center , Steve Bell , budget , Congress , House , Senate , continuing resolution
Experts say administration proposal puts FEHB on the ropes
The White House wants to carve out the prescription drug piece and give OPM the ability to negotiate prices through a third party. But experts say this change would cost employees more money and be the first step toward dismantling the entire Federal Employee Health Benefit program.
Tags: James Morrison , Jackie Simon , Joseph Antos , pay and benefits , Walt Francis , American Enterprise Institute , FEHB , OPM , AFGE , prescription drug benefit , Jason Miller , USPS
Automatic cuts would 'hollow out the military'
Alexander Bolton of The Hill discusses the status of potential cuts to federal spending that supercommitte is considering.
Tags: Congress , DoD , budget , Federal Drive , Tom Temin , Amy Morris , Alexander Bolton , The Hill ,
Supercommittee Tracker
Track recommendations on federal pay, benefits and retirement made to the supercommittee by top Congressional leaders and the White House.
Tags: management , budget , Congress , House , Senate , Elijah Cummings , Joe Lieberman , Susan Collins , Barack Obama , Darrell Issa , House Oversight and Government Reform Committee , pay and benefits , retirement , workforce , hiring , deficit , Jolie Lee , Jack Moore
Top GOP senators press Pentagon on specific cuts
Top Republicans on the Senate Armed Services Committee are pressing Defense Secretary Leon Panetta to spell out the "devastating effects" to the military if a special bipartisan panel fails to produce a deficit-cutting plan and nearly $1 trillion in defense cuts kick in.
Tags: DoD , John McCain , Lindsey Graham , Leon Panetta , Congress , Senate , budget , Senate Armed Services Committee
Senators examine impact of DoD budget sequestration
Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham want Defense Secretary Leon Panetta to take a look at what a supercommittee failure would mean for the military.
Tags: DoD Report , Meredith Shiner , CQ Roll Call , budget , In Depth , sequestration
After Senate appropriations vote, next steps in budget process
Jessica Brady is a staff writer for Roll Call.
Tags: Congress , budget , Jessica Brady , Roll Call , In Depth
Deficit hawks urge deep cuts by supercommittee
Tags: Congress , budget , deficit
