TSP's G Fund Helps Delay Debt Ceiling
CBP Could Escape Furloughs
Feds Flock to TSP's L Funds
EIG 2013 as Told by Your Tweets
Boldly Go Where No Fed's Gone Before
The Big Squeeze: Defense Under Sequester
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Charles S. Clark
Senior Correspondent
Charlie Clark joined Government Executive in the fall of 2009. He has been on staff at The Washington Post, Congressional Quarterly, National Journal, Time-Life Books, Tax Analysts, the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, and the National Center on Education and the Economy. He has written or edited online news, daily news stories, long features, wire copy, magazines, books and organizational media strategies.
Administration unveils two new tools to spur job creation
October 28, 2011 Continuing its push to spur the economy while its jobs plan is stalled in Congress, the Obama administration on Friday issued presidential memoranda to create a one-stop portal to help businesses access federal services and to encourage entrepreneurial startups by accelerating the movement of federal lab research to the commercial ...
Never Mind the Missing $6 Billion
October 27, 2011 Back in June, the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction took pains to clarify an alarming report that some $6.6 billion in U.S. funds sent to help reconstruct Iraq in 2004 might have been stolen or lost. The money was certainly unaccounted for. Concerned citizens can now heave a sigh ...
Fraud continues in small business preference programs
October 27, 2011 Contractor fraud in small business set-aside programs is difficult to detect and prove, but its annual costs to government are significant in dollars and damage to legitimate business that deserve the work, two federal watchdogs told a House panel Thursday. In fulfilling the Obama administration's goal of giving 23 percent ...
Hardly a Cubicle
October 26, 2011 The capital city's most spectacular offices include three occupied by federal executives, according to a photo-feature in the November Washingtonian magazine. The stunning glimpses of offices with a view, with ornate décor or historical import include that of Treasury Undersecretary for International Affairs Lael Brainard, whose blue-carpeted workspace was once ...
FEMA chief says pre-staging is key to rapid disaster response
October 25, 2011 Federal disaster response officials are being trained to leap into action without always waiting for a governor and the president to declare a disaster, the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency told a House hearing Tuesday. While Hurricane Irene was building strength this summer, FEMA had prestaged teams along ...
State Department faulted in effort to train Iraqi police
October 24, 2011 The State Department lacks sufficient understanding and strategy for standing up the domestic police force in Iraq on the eve of the withdrawal of U.S. forces from that war zone, according to a report released Monday by the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction. In their 200th report on the ...
Procurement chief defends Obama’s commitment to small business
October 24, 2011 A proposed rule to curb agencies' little used capacity to offer higher payments to needier contractors "will have no impact on the government's ability or commitment to drive contracting opportunities for small disadvantaged businesses," Dan Gordon, administrator of the White House Office of Federal Procurement Policy, said Friday. In a ...
Repeal of 3 percent contractor tax withholding gathers steam
October 24, 2011 The House is gearing up for a scheduled Oct. 27 vote to repeal a six-year-old congressional mandate that agencies withhold 3 percent of contractors' payments in order to improve tax compliance -- a continually postponed requirement that isn't due to take effect until 2013. A bill (H.R. 674) introduced by ...
Subpoenas for Four Agencies
October 20, 2011 House Small Business Committee Chairman Sam Graves, R-Mo., late Thursday sent subpoenas to four agencies he views as being out of compliance with the Small Business Act's provisions on structuring their Offices of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization. The Agriculture, Justice, Treasury and State departments were sent the subpoenas asking ...
Going After Shady Contractors
October 20, 2011 A grab-bag bill approved on Wednesday by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee aims to shake up the business-as-usual world of federal contracting. The Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Improvement Act would take a whack at the estimated $125 billion in undeserved payments made by agencies in 2010 ...
