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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Government continues to subsidize building in hurricane-prone areas
June 1, 2006 SOUTHPORT, N.C. -- This quaint coastal town, with its cozy shops, broad main street running to the shore, and hint of salt in the air, is essentially the "before" picture. This is much like what Bay St. Louis, Miss., looked like until Hurricane Katrina's 20-foot storm surge smashed most of ...
White House working to better coordinate ocean research
April 14, 2006 In 2004, President Bush issued an "Ocean Action Plan." It acknowledged that more than 20 federal agencies have authority over U.S. oceans, coasts, and the Great Lakes, and that they operate under 140 separate federal laws. Now James Connaughton, chairman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, is beginning ...
Lobbyists seek to broker deals with agencies
March 24, 2006 When an organization called Republican Mayors and Local Elected Officials met in Washington this month, the invitees included House Government Reform Committee Chairman Tom Davis, R-Va., and Reuben Barrales of the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs. If you were a business executive who wanted the chance to rub shoulders ...
FEMA works to keep trailer parks temporary
March 13, 2006 BAKER, La. -- At Renaissance Village, a massive emergency trailer park on the outskirts of Baton Rouge that houses some 1,600 evacuees from New Orleans, FEMA briefly banned religious services last month. That seemingly callous move speaks volumes about some of the challenges that the Federal Emergency Management Agency faces: ...
OMB seeks feedback on risk assessment guidelines
January 17, 2006 John Graham, head of the Office of Management and Budget's regulatory division, is making his last days memorable. Graham, who leaves on March 1 to run the RAND Corp.'s graduate school in policy analysis, has issued a proposed risk assessment bulletin that would create new rules for regulators in the ...
Agencies tackle massive Gulf Coast waste removal challenge
January 9, 2006 NEW ORLEANS -- When Hurricanes Katrina and Rita ravaged the Gulf Coast, they turned dozens of communities into massive trash heaps. When the winds died down and the flood waters receded, the storms left behind a line of debris some 500 miles long. By year's end, contractors hired by the ...
SBA slammed for Katrina delays
December 5, 2005 Forget FEMA -- the real roadblock to hurricane recovery is the Small Business Administration, some Gulf Coast business leaders say. Regional business leaders gathering in Washington this week for a strategy session blasted the SBA for moving slowly to distribute disaster-recovery loans and for being inflexible, uncreative, and bureaucratic. Small ...
Gaps remain in government strategy for handling natural disasters
October 28, 2005 Despite the billions of taxpayer dollars spent every year on emergency preparedness and disaster cleanup, the United States lacks an overall strategy for reducing the number of lives lost and the amount of property destroyed when Mother Nature unleashes a wildfire, earthquake, flood, hurricane, tsunami, or other calamity. On paper, ...
Air Force rejects benefits for 'Air America' employees
October 25, 2005 If you were once a pilot for a secret airline run by the CIA, flying all sorts of clandestine military operations in Southeast Asia for three decades, are you entitled to government retirement benefits? The Defense Department doesn't think so. The Air Force has rejected a petition by former Air ...
Energy recycles conservation initiative
October 14, 2005 How much energy do you save by recycling old initiatives? After weeks of news about high prices for gasoline and heating fuel, Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman announced this month a new department effort to encourage consumers to save energy. The campaign includes a series of public service announcements featuring a ...
