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Bush to reinstate contractor wage law in Gulf Coast states
October 26, 2005 The Bush administration will reinstate the Davis-Bacon prevailing wage law Nov. 8 in Louisiana, Mississippi and selected other counties where President Bush suspended it in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, lawmakers said Wednesday after a White House meeting. Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., said White House Chief of Staff Card told ...
Subcommittee approves $82.8 billion Veterans Affairs bill
July 20, 2005 A Senate Appropriations subcommittee voted Tuesday to appropriate $82.8 billion for the Department of Veterans Affairs and military housing and construction in fiscal 2006, including $2 billion in emergency health care funding for veterans. The Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Subcommittee approved roughly $3.3 billion more than originally requested by ...
House panel votes to strengthen whistleblower protections
September 30, 2004 The House Government Reform Committee voted Wednesday to strengthen protections for whistleblowers by closing some of the "loopholes" in the law protecting federal whistleblowers from recrimination. The Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (H.R. 3281) passed the committee by a voice vote. The Senate Governmental Affairs Committee passed similar legislation (S. 2628) ...
House GOP quashes effort to bypass leadership's intelligence reform plan
September 29, 2004 Invoking jurisdictional concerns, House committee chairmen on Wednesday ruled out of order several attempts by bipartisan coalitions of lawmakers or Democrats to replace the House Republican leadership's intelligence overhaul proposals with bipartisan bills that paralleled the 9/11 Commission's recommendations. House Government Reform Chairman Tom Davis, R-Va.; Financial Services Chairman Michael ...
Interior agencies win backing from House panel to recruit volunteers
July 15, 2004 The Interior Department may recruit and train volunteers to help with activities of more of its agencies under legislation approved Wednesday by the House Resources Committee. The legislation opens up the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the U.S. Geological Survey, the Bureau of Reclamation and the Office of the Secretary to ...
Plan to recruit nurses to VA jobs wins backing
May 14, 2004 A House Veterans Affairs panel Thursday approved a plan to test whether professional recruiters and advertisers can lure more nurses to VA jobs. The Subcommittee on Health also approved more flexible work schedules to attract and keep nurses. The new alternate work schedules would include work weeks of three 12-hour ...
Senate panel OKs $4.5 billion to ramp up transit security
May 6, 2004 The Senate Banking Committee voted to spend $4.5 billion next year to build fences, install security cameras and take other steps to protect public transportation systems against attacks. The bill clarifies that transit security would be handled by the Department of Homeland Security. Until now, much of the efforts to ...
Senate panel boosts Coast Guard acquisition effort
August 1, 2003 The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee voted Thursday to boost Coast Guard spending to $7 billion next year, with a sizeable percentage of the increase going to the Deepwater acquisition program. The committee authorized $702 million for Deepwater in fiscal 2004, the same amount appropriated by the Senate last ...
House panel approves military-civilian pay parity for 2004
July 24, 2003 Civilian federal employees, including blue-collar workers, will get a 4.1 percent pay increase in 2004 to match military raises, under a spending bill amendment approved by the House Appropriations Committee Thursday. "If we don't do this, then we lose some of our best employees," said Rep. James Moran, D-Va. "We ...
House panel approves fiscal 2004 Labor-HHS approps bill
June 19, 2003 Preferring to voice their objections rather than amend a bill they oppose, Democratic members of the House Labor-HHS Appropriations Subcommittee Thursday highlighted what they see as deficiencies in the $138 billion fiscal 2004 Labor-HHS appropriations bill the panel reported out on a 11-7 party-line vote. Appropriations ranking member David Obey, ...
