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While federal employee compensation is a high-value target for Republicans, the cost of federal contractors has received much less notice. “Spending on service contractors has outpaced spending on federal employees,” Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) says.
FEDERAL EYE | The Economic Development Administration, a small job-development agency in the Commerce Department that gives out grants to low-income communities, is in its eighth week of a cyber-blackout. Do you work at the EDA or know someone who does? We want to hear from you.
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A viewpoint about the cost of President Obama’s proposed budget cuts to NOAA.
Government spending on background investigations and security-clearance checks ballooned to almost $1.1 billion in the last fiscal last year, a jump of almost 79 percent over six years, congressional auditors said this week.
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This was supposed to be the week that Congress started fixing the Postal Service. It wasn’t.
The House has endorsed several provisions targeting federal employee pay, retirement benefits and job levels.
Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) is concerned about the rising costs of employing non-federal contractors in the government workplace.
While federal employee compensation is a high-value target for Republicans, the cost of federal contractors has received much less notice. “Spending on service contractors has outpaced spending on federal employees,” Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) says.
Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) is concerned about the rising costs of employing non-federal contractors in the government workplace.
Perhaps the number now employed by the Transportation Security Administration, House member suggests.
In the Loop
The probe into prosecutors’ mistakes in handling the corruption case against the late Sen. Ted Stevens cost taxpayers nearly a million bucks.
In the Loop’s roundup, there’s a peek behind the Supreme Court’s curtains, a country song for the GOP, and an attempt at measuring happiness.
The Senate on Thursday confirmed scores of Obama administration nominees for top government jobs, clearing a backlog that had been building for months.
A “People’s Pledge” between Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) and challenger Elizabeth Warren (D) has almost eliminated outside advertising from their contentious U.S. Senate race.
Washington lobbyists are making a strange request: more regulation of lobbying. The goal of a new proposal is to increase transparency around lobbying and improve the public image of the business.
Many organizations calling for corporations to disclose their political donations don’t disclose their own donors.
The House Armed Services Committee chairman is playing defense on two fronts.
A 32-acre plot of unused Accomack County land has become the subject of a fight over National Park Service policies.
Some lawmakers believe they shouldn’t get paid if the House and Senate can’t agree on a spending blueprint.
Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli Jr. will argue the Obama administration’s health care case before the Supreme Court.
HIGH COURT | Tracie Hunter is a Democrat whose still-unsettled 2010 election contest with her GOP opponent will be decided by a legal battle over a batch of disputed and uncounted votes. And one of her legal lifelines is the Supreme Court decision that still enrages some of her fellow party members: Bush v. Gore.
THE HIGH COURT | All of a sudden, the Supreme Court is fodder for late-night comedians, and the result is not something for which the image-conscious justices are likely to set their DVRs.
Fine Print’s Walter Pincus takes a look at the U.S. military’s dependence on space.
At a budget hearing for the U.S. Strategic Command, Republicans seized on the president’s remark to criticize his nuclear strategy.
Walter Pincus argues Congress isn’t doing well when it comes to facing up to the threat of sequestration.
The Federal Buzz
For this week’s federal worker question of the week, we want to know what the difference between a little something and nothing would be for your family.
To help boost the morale and job satisfaction of your employees, here‘s some tips from the DOT playbook.
Federal Player
When federal users need additional space on the airwaves, they go to Karl Nebbia of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), whose office assigns and manages agencies’ use of spectrum, so they can perform their vital functions.
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