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				<title><![CDATA[Social Security disability claims progress threatened by state furloughs]]></title>
				<link>http://www.federalnewsradio.com?nid=35&amp;sid=1818472</link>
				<description><![CDATA[After decades of neglect and what one official describes as "severe underfunding", Social Security Administration officials are finally seeing progress in reducing a huge backlog of claims for disability benefits. This, after recent infusions of staff, technology, and money. However, that progress is now threatened by another, more pressing problem: the furloughs of state disability claims reviewers, whose salary is partially paid for by federal funds.  ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:15:00 AM</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[GSA headquarters to become model green building]]></title>
				<link>http://www.federalnewsradio.com?nid=35&amp;sid=1818469</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Agency plans on adding solar power, heating water through solar thermal processes and restoring the windows so they open. Along with GSA, several other agencies are due for major renovation through the Recovery Act, and all will be more energy efficient. GSA also is applying green requirements to all new major leased buildings starting in January.]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 4:59:25 AM</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[TSA, OMB nominees approved in committee]]></title>
				<link>http://www.federalnewsradio.com?nid=35&amp;sid=1818048</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Nominees were approved by voice vote.]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 5:30:09 PM</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Former President of the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association dies]]></title>
				<link>http://www.federalnewsradio.com?nid=35&amp;sid=1817670</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Frank Atwater, former President of the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association, has died.]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 1:42:01 PM</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[House panel uncovers surprise on fed building security]]></title>
				<link>http://www.federalnewsradio.com?nid=35&amp;sid=1817195</link>
				<description><![CDATA[It might surprise you to learn that neither the Federal Protective Service, nor contract security guards, is the final word on security in your federal building. A House panel learned that so-called "local security committees" have unusual power to set what can and cannot come into a building, and even the power to veto security recommendations from the FPS. Officials say they're working to fix that.]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 5:03:35 AM</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[GSA gives agencies drop-dead date for Networx transition]]></title>
				<link>http://www.federalnewsradio.com?nid=35&amp;sid=1817192</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Agencies now have until Aug. 30 to hire a telecommunications provider. GSA and the carriers still are concerned that they will not have enough time to complete the transition by mid-2011. Interagency Management Council trying to increase the urgency of the need for agencies to move to Networx.
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				<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 4:41:26 AM</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[OPM Director Berry offers peek at the future of the federal personnel agency]]></title>
				<link>http://www.federalnewsradio.com?nid=35&amp;sid=1816046</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Sometime before the end of the year, the Office of Personnel Management is about to get a major re-shuffling. The Fed leading the effort talked about the reorganization of OPM at a conference of federal human capital managers that wraps up today in Arlington.]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 5:21:24 AM</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Justice, NSC lead review of cyber laws]]></title>
				<link>http://www.federalnewsradio.com?nid=35&amp;sid=1816043</link>
				<description><![CDATA[An interagency working group is trying to decide whether the administration should submit a proposal to Congress to update several laws. The White House's cyberspace review recommended legislative updates to address shortcomings in the current statutes. Justice also reviewed the Einstein 3 program even as DHS still is testing it.]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 5:12:42 AM</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[OMB to hold senior officials more accountable for government waste]]></title>
				<link>http://www.federalnewsradio.com?nid=35&amp;sid=1816042</link>
				<description><![CDATA[President Obama will issue an executive order in the next week detailing steps agencies must take to reduce the amount of improper payments. OMB will set up a new online dashboard to track these expenditures, similar to the one for IT projects. Executive order also will implement stricter requirements for contractors to report overpayments.]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 5:02:51 AM</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[House panel revisits security problems with Federal Protective Service]]></title>
				<link>http://www.federalnewsradio.com?nid=35&amp;sid=1814892</link>
				<description><![CDATA[The security of federal offices like yours is again being looked at on the Hill. Federal News Radio's Max Cacas spoke to Congressman Bennie Thompson of Mississippi - chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee.]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 4:51:47 AM</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Few agencies meet OMB's goal to protect critical infrastructure]]></title>
				<link>http://www.federalnewsradio.com?nid=35&amp;sid=1814890</link>
				<description><![CDATA[GAO says OMB has not provided enough oversight. Only 4 of 18 agencies met all the requirements under HSPD-7, which the White House issued in 2003. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 4:40:54 AM</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Salary Council suggests locality pay increase for 2011]]></title>
				<link>http://www.federalnewsradio.com?nid=35&amp;sid=1814309</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Federal Salary Council submits recommendations to OMB, OPM, Labor and President's Pay Agent to increase the average locality pay by 43 percent. Council says no new locality pay areas are needed. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 2:28:53 PM</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Another LTC "error" affects 70,000 federal workers]]></title>
				<link>http://www.federalnewsradio.com?nid=35&amp;sid=1813852</link>
				<description><![CDATA[OPM has been notified by Long Term Care Partners that letters the company mailed to tens of thousands of enrollees in the Federal Long Term Care Insurance Program contain errors in calculating potential premiums.
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				<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 5:53:30 AM</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Career OPM officials will review all political conversions]]></title>
				<link>http://www.federalnewsradio.com?nid=35&amp;sid=1812283</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Agency says burrowing is not a huge problem. But OPM director Berry sets new rules that take effect Jan. 1 to expand oversight and review of these proposed hires. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 5:45:26 PM</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Is GSA reducing the number of e-travel providers?]]></title>
				<link>http://www.federalnewsradio.com?nid=35&amp;sid=1812018</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Agency issued a draft RFP requesting industry comment on its new requirements. GSA says 23 major agencies and 38 smaller ones are using one of three E-Travel vendors. 
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				<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 1:53:19 PM</pubDate>
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