Oversight
Budget requests, agency-by-agency
Check out our chart to see which agencies are up and which are down in the president’s fiscal 2012 proposal.
Oversight
GSA budget focuses on selling property, green buildings and citizen IT
Staff disappointed over absent funds for design of new federal center in Missouri.
Defense
Fiscal battles loom over DHS grants, disaster assistance
Homeland Security budget plan calls for $300 million less than fiscal 2011 request.
Defense
Unprecedented Pentagon growth comes to halt
Defense request for fiscal 2012 comes in at $13 billion less than earlier spending projections.
Oversight
Budget would provide short-term relief from USPS financial woes
Proposal restructures retiree health benefits funding, repays excess FERS contributions.
Defense
Obama’s budget hits nonsecurity agencies hard
More than half would see decreases under the fiscal 2012 proposal, which also calls on the federal government to sell 14,000 buildings.
Oversight
Budget includes 1.6 percent pay raise for military personnel
The administration also pledges $8.3 billion in fiscal 2012 funds to support military families.
Tech
House appropriators to cut 2011 Veterans Affairs IT funds by $160 million
Reduction would represent a 5 percent decrease over requested budget.
News
Former senator: A government shutdown is avoidable
Lawmakers should use the continuing resolution to direct spending reductions and set the stage for a vote on raising the debt ceiling, Gregg says.
Oversight
Senate GOP not satisfied with Obama's budget proposal
Republicans say deficit reduction plans don't go far enough.
Oversight
Obama budget calls for targeted cuts
Fiscal 2012 proposal seeks $1.1 trillion in deficit reduction over 10 years, but many spending reductions would be reinvested elsewhere.
Tech
Online Profiles: The New Resume?
A survey of human resources managers says profiles on social media sites could one day replace resumes.
Oversight
House GOP releases spending plan with $100 billion in cuts
Move is designed to meet promise in pre-election "Pledge to America."
Oversight
SBA makes first major revision to 8(a) program in a decade
Final rule changes affecting Alaska native corporations revamps joint ventures and mentor-protégé relationships.
Defense
Coast Guard hurries to address recent rise in mission-related deaths
Review will examine whether additional post-9/11 responsibilities are partially to blame, commandant says.
Oversight
Energy to reinvest savings from freezing contractor salaries
Laboratory workers in New York are upset the money will not go toward deficit reduction.
Defense