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Defense
Troops not safe from sequestration
Exemption from cuts covers only service members' paychecks, not their health benefits.
Oversight
Senators jab FDA over lethal meningitis outbreak
More than 30 people have died and more than 400 were infected.
Oversight
White House holds back on sequester details
Agencies direct questions to OMB, which isn't divulging details.
Pay & Benefits
Treasury may revamp flexible spending account rule
Government might scrap 'use it or lose it' rules.
Defense
Obesity a national security issue, experts agree
America's weight problems threaten future military strength, retired Navy rear admiral says.
Management
Obama sticks to same Medicare cost-savers
Overall HHS funding request up $7 billion from fiscal 2012.
Oversight
What kind of health insurance do the GOP candidates get?
Most of the GOP presidential hopefuls do not shop for health insurance in the individual market they have advocated for others.
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Oversight
What's at stake if Congress fails this time?
Congress is threatening stalemate again, and this time the effect would be felt by millions of average Americans.
News
House votes to repeal contractor withholding tax
Legislation's Senate prospects remain uncertain.
Oversight
HHS drops controversial long-term care program
Staff at the CLASS office were reassigned last month.
News
National health program triples in size
Money from the health care law, the 2009 stimulus bill and fiscal 2011 dollars helped the loan-repayment and scholarship program grow.
Oversight
Lawmaker wants HHS to take closer look at doctor pay
Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash., wants to require the federal government to give Medicare reimbursement rates a closer look.
Defense
Gates, Clinton can't predict when U.S. role in Libya ends
Interviews leave many basic questions unanswered about the mission's duration, point and endgame.
Oversight
Short-term funding measures have agency budget officials finding ways to save
They have held off on filling some vacancies and slowed grants and contracts that require up-front funding.
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Oversight
HHS regulations follow Obama waiver endorsement
Rules leave room for states to jigger the health care law's 'essential benefits' package.
Defense
Tragedy brings focus on mental health agencies
House is slated to vote on health care law this week, which includes mental health service expansion.
Oversight
HHS shifts new health insurance oversight office to CMS
Move could protect newly created office from Republican House appropriators who want to defund key parts of health reform law.
Oversight
Congress overhauls federal food safety efforts
Bill marks first effort to restructure oversight in more than 70 years.
Defense
Senate Republicans block 9/11 health bill
Vote effectively kills the measure, though Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has vowed to “pursue every possible route” to passage before the Senate leaves next week.
Oversight