Public finds government inefficient, study shows

Americans would choose their government over any other in the world, but a majority “believe Washington is too big, inefficient and wasteful,” according to a study released Aug. 6 by a conservative think tank.

• Amelia Gruber
• August 8, 2003

Health agency head mistreats subcontractor, GAO finds

• Amelia Gruber
• August 5, 2003

Rhetoric often at odds with reality of appropriations process

Congress and the president take credit for creating federal programs and launching ambitious initiatives, but then they often don't put their money where their mouth is.

• David Baumann
• August 4, 2003

Appropriators bracing for a bruising September

• Peter Cohn
• August 1, 2003

Senate backs bill to give postmasters more power to bargain over pay

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• August 1, 2003

Federal radio, TV networks aim to change Arab hearts and minds

• Shane Harris
• July 31, 2003

Agriculture civil rights chief ready to sow seeds of change

While Vernon Parker settles into his new role at the Agriculture Department, employee advocates are waiting to see how the new assistant secretary for civil rights will eradicate what they see as pervasive ethnic and gender discrimination at the department.

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• July 30, 2003

Iraq reconstruction moves into new phase

• Shawn Zeller
• July 29, 2003

Amtrak plan would shift to private, state control

• Congress Daily
• July 29, 2003

GAO releases guide to help agencies improve training programs

• Amelia Gruber
• July 28, 2003

September spending spat could test House GOP discipline

• Peter Cohn
• July 28, 2003

Head Start managers shift focus to literacy

President Bush's effort to refocus the Head Start program on literacy is shaking up the agency charged with overseeing the program.

• July 28, 2003

Senator: Appropriators face 'real, real terrible September'

• Peter Cohn
• July 25, 2003

Government faces big long-term spending hurdle

• Peter Cohn
• July 24, 2003

Finalists for 2003 public service awards announced

• Kellie Lunney
• July 23, 2003

OPM rejects GAO recommendation to rebid jobs site contract

The Office of Personnel Management has decided to ignore a recommendation from the General Accounting Office to rebid a contract to redesign the federal jobs Web site.

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• July 22, 2003

House panel approves supplemental without AmeriCorps funding

• Peter Cohn and Lisa Caruso
• July 22, 2003

Park Service at center of controversy over ‘road to nowhere’

• Louis Jacobson
• July 21, 2003

Backlog of whistleblower complaints piles up

The number of civil servants who lodge allegations of waste, fraud and abuse in federal agencies is growing, and they aren’t getting timely responses to their complaints.

• Amelia Gruber
• July 21, 2003

Judge denies contempt motion against USDA in sex harassment suit

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• July 21, 2003