News Briefs

THE DAILY FED

News Briefs

SECTIONS TO CHOOSE FROM:

SOCIAL SECURITY: CLINTON'S STATE OF THE UNION OPENER-"At a moment of maximum political peril, President Clinton plans tonight to open a national debate on the most sacred and untouchable of government programs, Social Security" (The Washington Post).

GOP LEADERS OFFER THREE TO HEAD GAO-"House and Senate GOP leaders have sent President Clinton a list of three candidates to head the General Accounting Office, the congressional watchdog agency that has been without a comptroller general for 16 months" (The Washington Post).

CLINTON PROPOSES SPENDING $25 BILLION ON EDUCATION-"President Clinton proposed Monday to spend nearly $25 billion over the next decade on reducing class sizes in elementary schools, building and renovating schools and addressing a variety of other problems in the nation's education system (The New York Times).

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Managing the Federal Employee Discipline and Performance Process

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