Oversight
Deficit-cutting panel has a fallback option
The super committee could come up with a not-so-grand bargain that doesn’t completely avoid across-the-board cuts but makes a dent in the size of those reductions.
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Postal service plans to slash 120,000 jobs, withdraw from federal benefits
Congressional approval is required to activate the plan that, if passed, would be a historic and devastating precedent for the U.S. labor movement.
Pay & Benefits
Smooth Sailing
Tips for ensuring your transition to retirement goes off without a hitch.
Defense
Army announces new renewable energy task force
Move will help to centralize management of large-scale projects and find private sector investors.
Defense
From Nextgov: VA adds tablet computers to massive technology buy
The purchase will mark the first large-scale procurement of tablets in the federal government.
Oversight
Labor Department plans database to gauge discrimination by contractors
Proposed rule seeks public comment on collection of salary and benefits data to measure treatment of women and minorities.
Oversight
IG: Postal Service managers fudged pay-for-performance rules
Audit finds supervisors at the financially strapped agency arbitrarily lowered performance ratings and were less generous with raises, partly to avoid a public backlash.
Defense
Pentagon identifies servicemen killed in helicopter crash
The crash on Saturday caused the biggest single-day loss of life for American forces in Afghanistan.
Pay & Benefits
Super committee’s success or failure both threaten federal pay and benefits
Employees are likely to swallow a bitter pill under any congressional scenario.
Defense
Senate holds up nominee for State Department nonproliferation bureau
The office manages efforts to halt the proliferation and acquisition of weapons of mass destruction.
Defense
Growing indications SEALs were sent on low-level mission
While the military initially said troops who died Saturday were rescuing Army Rangers, it now says they were sent to apprehend fleeing militants.
Defense
House GOP chairmen balk at defense cuts
Lawmakers want to know the national security implications of a worst-case deficit-reduction scenario.
Oversight
Super committee appointee sees room for compromise
Willingness to find common ground comes as a surprise from Republican Sen. Pat Toomey, who has tea party supporters and voted "no" on the debt deal.
Oversight
GOP lawmaker supports 'grand bargain' to reduce deficit
Congressional super committee will face an uphill battle reaching agreement on cuts, Rep. Peter King says.
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