Pay & Benefits
Best Dates to Retire 2008
Getting down to specifics on how to maximize your benefits if you’re thinking about retiring next year.
Oversight
Lawmakers seek disciplinary action against FDA official
House members upset by officewide e-mail in which assistant commissioner criticized testimony of fellow FDA employees at a congressional hearing.
Oversight
House panel probes charges of human trafficking in Iraq embassy project
Whistleblowers allege Kuwaiti company mistreated employees, but IG finds no evidence to back claims.
Oversight
Bush invites congressional leaders to talk about spending, other issues
Democrats and Bush are separated by about $23 billion on fiscal 2008 spending.
Oversight
Senators seek to hold TSA to standard acquisition rules
Amendment to spending bill would repeal the agency’s exemption from governmentwide regulations.
Oversight
Safety board criticizes FAA response to Kentucky crash
Agency should have issued new safety requirements, rather than nonbinding recommendations, panel members say.
News
Senators agree to additional $3 billion in border security funds
The extra funding is likely to complicate conference proceedings and put Congress on a path toward a showdown with the White House.
Pay & Benefits
House members unveil paid parental leave legislation
New bill would provide eight weeks of paid leave to all federal employees for the birth or adoption of a child.
Defense
Immigration issues sidetrack Senate work on spending bill
Majority leader argues Republicans were attempting to re-legislative immigration reform with request for $3 billion in additional border security funds.
Pay & Benefits
Playing Up Performance
Pay-for-performance is starting to seem inevitable, but may still be a long ways off.
News
Panel to seek contempt charges against Bolten, Miers
White House, lawmakers disagree on whether a president can extend executive privilege to bar production of documents and testimony.
Defense
Defense spending bill clears House committee
Measure would cut $406 million from future combat program request, cancel reconnaissance helicopter program due to cost overruns and schedule delays.
Oversight