TSP's G Fund Helps Delay Debt Ceiling
Sequester Hits Disaster Relief
Feds Respond to Oklahoma Tornadoes
Making Government 'Simpler'
OK Senator Wants Aid Offset by Budget Cuts
Boldly Go Where No Fed's Gone Before
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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.
IRS whistleblower awards program faulted for delays
September 12, 2011 A 5-year-old program enhancing cash awards to tipsters who successfully expose tax cheats is beset by delays and inadequate tracking of cases, according to a new report that is prompting debate over whether the Internal Revenue Service has sufficient resources to run the program. "Whistleblower claims can take years to ...
OMB announces final guidance on inherently governmental functions
September 9, 2011 Long-anticipated final guidance on "inherently governmental functions" is set for publication on Monday and should clarify confusion over blurred lines in agencies' understanding of which types of work should be outsourced, top officials at the Office of Management and Budget told reporters on Friday. The final policy, said Chief Performance ...
Government’s response to 9/11 called positive and democratic
September 8, 2011 The federal government's centralized terrorist watch list, which was created after the 9/11 attacks from 12 separate lists at nine different agencies, has likely "kept a thousand terrorists out of the country," a veteran congressional intelligence committee staffer told a panel on Thursday. "If a couple of the 9/11 hijackers ...
Defense budget could fall by 31 percent in 10 years, think tank says
September 8, 2011 Planners of the defense budget face an unprecedented challenge in responding to new threats in a post-9/11 era at the same time resources are diminishing, experts said Thursday. The analysts from the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments were speaking at the National Press Club on lessons learned 10 years ...
Despite its progress, Homeland Security remains on GAO risk list
September 7, 2011 The Homeland Security Department has demonstrated progress in meeting its missions and has enjoyed a productive dialogue with the Government Accountability Office, auditors told a Senate panel on Wednesday. But what became the third largest federal entity when it consolidated 22 agencies in 2002 still must work to address weakness ...
Consumer bureau nominee wins praise, but stalemate persists
September 7, 2011 Richard Cordray, President Obama's nominee to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, spent his confirmation hearing on Tuesday taking in praise for his credentials and displaying his knowledge of his agency's workings. Still, key Republicans on the Senate banking panel carried on with their months-old strategy of blocking approval of ...
What's an Agency 'Horse Blanket'?
September 6, 2011 A hot-off-the-presses book on U.S. counterterrorism policy reveals an oddly named tool many agencies have had at their disposal since 2007. A "horse blanket," according to "Counterstrike: The Untold Story of America's Secret Campaign Against Al Qaeda" by New York Times correspondents Eric Schmitt and Thom Shanker, is "a large, ...
House Republicans continue demanding Obama disaster-spending plan
September 6, 2011 Congress returned on Tuesday to take up emergency disaster-relief spending, a day after Office of Management and Budget Director Jack Lew released an estimate of new federal money needed to respond to damage from Hurricane Irene. Lew's figure of $1.5 billion, which would come on top of the $5.2 billion ...
Grumblings persist over demise of Statistical Abstract
September 2, 2011 Late this month, the 131st edition of the Statistical Abstract of the United States is scheduled for release. It will be the final installment of the paper edition of the fact-packed government annual, a planned casualty of the current budget austerity that stands only a slight chance, sources say, of ...
OMB sends Congress preliminary budget number for disaster relief
September 2, 2011 In a first step in what is becoming a politically charged battle over federal disaster spending, Obama administration budget director Jack Lew on Thursday sent Congress an estimate -- required under the 2011 Budget Control Act -- of what will be needed for disaster relief spending in fiscal 2012: an ...
