TSP's G Fund Helps Delay Debt Ceiling
Sequester Hits Disaster Relief
Feds Respond to Oklahoma Tornadoes
Making Government 'Simpler'
OK Senator Wants Aid Offset by Budget Cuts
Boldly Go Where No Fed's Gone Before
AUTHOR ARCHIVES
Truth & Consequences
August 15, 2012 The cuts would devastate the economy and jeopardize a generation of innovation. By Marion C. Blakey Sometimes it takes a looming deadline to force us to accomplish the enormous tasks we’ve put off for months. We do our taxes on April 14 and pull all-nighters on the eve of our ...
Staffing Rules With a Twist
August 1, 2003 Lawmakers slam DoD personnel plan, but it's a chip off the old block. hings are rarely what they seem on Capitol Hill. A classic example is the debate over Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's proposal to change the personnel management rules for 734,000 civilian employees at the Defense Department. Rumsfeld wants ...
History lesson
July 15, 2003 Victory in future wars is often a function of learning from the one just fought. In 1944, President Roosevelt learned from France's failure to learn from its victory in 1918 and told his secretary of war, "It would be valuable . . . for postwar planning to obtain an impartial ...
Heed the Lessons, Not the Lies
July 1, 2003 ictory in future wars is often a function of learning from the one just fought. In 1944, President Roosevelt learned from France's failure to learn from its victory in 1918 and told his secretary of war, "It would be valuable . . . for postwar planning to obtain an impartial ...
Oversight overlooked
June 3, 2003 The four senators I worked for taught me that the most important thing I could do as a national security staffer was to help them with their oversight responsibilities. That is, to find out what was really going on in the Defense Department behind the gloss of official testimony, the ...
Oversight Overlooked
May 1, 2003 he four senators I worked for taught me that the most important thing I could do as a national security staffer was to help them with their oversight responsibilities. That is, to find out what was really going on in the Defense Department behind the gloss of official testimony, the ...
Up to Our Eyeballs in Pork
April 1, 2003 Washington ritual follows the passage of almost every appropriations bill. Congressional staffers dismayed by the pork larded through the measure alert journalists. A handful of self-declared "pork buster" legislators give speeches and release lists of objectionable items in the legislation. Then, newspapers print two types of stories. Most mock the ...
Raids on the War Budget
December 1, 2002 fter more than 30 years working for the Senate and the General Accounting Office, I have observed many senators at close range. At times, I have felt great pride to be a small part of an institution that has responded so well to national crises. At other times, I have ...
