Furlough 'Consistency and Fairness'
Innovation in Government Dips
TSP Funds Stay Positive in April
5 Agencies with the Most Disconnected Leadership
No Bonuses for VA Benefits Execs
Will You Be Furloughed?
AUTHOR ARCHIVES
House Homeland Security Committee Plans Hearing on Boston Attack
May 1, 2013 The House Homeland Security Committee plans to hold the first congressional hearing next week examining the Boston Marathon terrorist attack and what it says about the state of the nation’s post-Sept. 11 security infrastructure. Committee Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas, has launched an investigation into the April 15 bombings and is ...
What the Feds Knew About the Boston Bombers
April 25, 2013 Data about Tamerlan Tsarnaev was sitting in U.S. security systems but never made its way to the FBI or CIA, according to information U.S. security officials gave some senators during a closed-door briefing on Thursday. Here is some of what the senators learned. Russia told U.S. authorities five days ago ...
Did Law Enforcement Use the Info It Had on Boston Bombers?
April 25, 2013 In the wake of the Boston Marathon attack, lawmakers are focusing on whether federal law enforcement botched information it had about the deceased suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev in 2011 and whether post-Sept. 11 information-sharing security measures broke down. All senators are due to receive an update on the Boston investigation in ...
Senate Leader Set to Push Budget Forward
April 23, 2013 Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, is expected to ask the Senate for consent to move to a conference on the budget, according to a Democratic aide. It is unclear whether Republicans will allow Reid to move forward on a conference with the House, however. Senate Republicans have been keeping a ...
Ricin Letter Adds to Anxiety on the Hill
April 17, 2013 Amid an already edgy state of alert in Washington following Monday’s bombings at the Boston Marathon, law enforcement officials confirmed on Tuesday that they were also investigating whether an envelope containing the poison ricin was intended to harm Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss. “The U.S. Capitol Police, the FBI and other ...
Lawmakers Seek Answers on Boston Attacks
April 16, 2013 Senior lawmakers knew little more than the public on Tuesday about the Boston attacks and were looking to afternoon briefings scheduled with U.S. intelligence and law enforcement officers for answers. While some members were beginning to raise questions about what U.S. officials knew before the attack and what they have ...
Armed With Excuses, Lawmakers Head Home to Sequester Complaints
March 25, 2013 As lawmakers were preparing to go back home to their districts for a two-week recess, many were already getting an earful of grievances from constituents about the sequester’s impact — and were bracing to hear far more in meetings and town halls. “We have five major military installations plus the ...
Deal in Sight to Keep the Government Open
March 12, 2013 The House appears willing to accept the Senate's proposal to keep the government funded for the rest of the fiscal year, avoiding a protracted fight that could lead to a government shutdown by the end of the month. The House Appropriations Committee staff is still studying the details, but the ...
The Real Budget Battle
March 11, 2013 If you think the undercard bouts have been a tad boring, fear not. The main event is just around the corner, and it promises to be worth the price of admission. Two months into the 113th Congress, Capitol Hill has featured a discernible lack of drama. The sequester cuts went ...
Democrats Oppose Flexibility in Sequester Cuts
February 27, 2013 Top lawmakers spent Tuesday searching for leverage points in the coming public-relations war over the automatic spending cuts that almost everyone agrees will now occur even though they were never designed to go into effect. For Senate Republicans, one such potential spot is in crafting an alternative to the so-called ...
