Defense
From Nextgov.com: Cybersecurity bill could be stalled by House-Senate differences
Issue of whether to tackle protections piecemeal or as a package are unresolved, along with question of where to centralize federal authority.
Oversight
Energy budget holds major cuts
Proposal slashes spending for hydrogen and fossil fuel research programs and shutters parts of two national labs.
Pay & Benefits
House lawmakers reintroduce paid parental leave bill
Legislation would provide federal employees with four weeks of paid time off for childbirth or adoption.
Oversight
USPS employees expense $600,000 in excess travel costs
Watchdog discovers workers paid for private trips and adult entertainment with agency credit cards.
Defense
Arizona sues feds over border ‘failure’
State complains Homeland Security has not installed cameras, sensors, fencing and other barriers to attain 'operational control' of the U.S.-Mexico line.
Oversight
House-Senate gulf on spending for the rest of 2011 grows
With the current stopgap measure set to expire on March 4, there is little time to reconcile differences.
Pay & Benefits
Credit for Military Service
The first in a three-part series on service credit issues.
Oversight
Under fire from right, House GOP proposes $100 billion in cuts
Appropriators scrap original plan for $74 billion in cuts to soothe tea party members.
Oversight
House panel pressures GSA to speed sale of excess properties
Half-empty Old Post Office in Washington made centerpiece in call to reduce surplus federal real estate.
Oversight
Business owners complain regulations are killing jobs
EPA and Labor come under heavy criticism during House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing.
Defense
From Nextgov.com: Pentagon budget relies heavily on anticipated savings
Analyst says 2012 Defense spending plan is the beginning of an 'age of austerity' for the department.
Management
Publishing contracts online? Not so fast
Administration withdraws proposal that would have directed agencies to post copies of contracts online.
Pay & Benefits
Official: Contractors will bear brunt of personnel cuts at command
Army Gen. Raymond Odierno said 2,000 of the nearly 3,000 positions slated for elimination at the Joint Forces Command will be contractor jobs.
Defense
TSA administrator defends collective bargaining decision
Employees who strike over labor issues will be disciplined and possibly terminated.
News
The Week in Comments: Luxembourg, rally on the Hill and the PATRIOT Act
The best in reader reaction to recent articles.
Oversight
Democrats fight House GOP's proposed 2011 budget cuts
Argument plan would hurt the poor is undercut by news Obama's fiscal 2012 budget would chop several billion dollars from low income energy-assistance fund.
Defense