Many Feds Face Furloughs Twice
Dems Back Retroactive Shutdown Pay
How Long Has the Shutdown Lasted?
Agencies Post Shutdown Plans Online
No TSP Contributions During a Shutdown
How Contractors Might Weather a Shutdown
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Analysis: The Sequester Is a Disaster, and Congress's Next Move May Be Worse
September 19, 2013 As readers of my past columns know, I was not exactly optimistic as we approached crunch time over the debt limit in 2011. But I am far more pessimistic now. At a dinner I attended Monday night with a host of those individuals deeply involved in fiscal matters, it became ...
Analysis: The U.S. Government Still Isn't Ready for a Catastrophic Terror Attack
September 13, 2013 I write this on the bright and sunny morning of September 11. Exactly 12 years ago, I was on my way to Dulles Airport. As I drove on the access road, convertible top down, I marveled at the beauty of the day. When I parked and went inside to get ...
Why Going to Congress For a Vote on Strikes in Syria Was a Major Risk
September 5, 2013 I had a robust list of topics I was going to write about after Labor Day, but how can one write this week about anything other than President Obama's surprising (to say the least) announcement that he would submit to Congress a resolution to authorize the use of force in ...
Analysis: McCain May Be Our Only Hope for Forging Fiscal Deal
August 8, 2013 With Congress away for the next month, it gives us time to pause and consider the various train wrecks that lie ahead when the members return Sept. 9—and we are talking train wrecks of the deadly variety. Three weeks after Congress returns, the new fiscal year will start; most of ...
Analysis: Boehner’s Passive-Aggressive Style Heightens Risk of Government Shutdown
August 1, 2013 Reader Stephen Herbits sent me a striking Robert's quote—not by Chief Justice John Roberts but Henry Robert, who produced one of the most consequential books of the 19th century, Robert’s Rules of Order, which has shaped how countless organizations, not to mention every meaningful legislature, have set up and organized ...
Analysis: Government Privatization Paves the Way for Crony Corruption
June 20, 2013 Booz Allen Hamilton, Edward Snowden’s former employer, is a cash cow earning billions from its intelligence work for the U.S. government. Snowden is among thousands of people who used to work for the government who went on to earn far more doing the same things for legions of private contractors. ...
The Myth of Presidential Leadership
May 16, 2013 The theme of presidential leadership is a venerated one in America, the subject of many biographies and an enduring mythology about great figures rising to the occasion. The term “mythology” doesn’t mean that the stories are inaccurate; Lincoln, the wonderful Steven Spielberg movie, conveyed a real sense of that president’s ...
