Tech
Lawmakers urge DHS to speed up financial consolidation
Department is moving component agencies to one of two management systems, financial chief says.
Oversight
House passes financial services spending bill
Measure passes on a 240-179 vote, with more than enough opposition to sustain a veto.
Oversight
Cheney's words show he counts self part of executive branch
The office has both legislative and executive functions, White House representatives have said during squabble over executive order compliance.
Oversight
Panel backs language to reopen FAA, union contract talks
Provision would retroactively require an independent binding arbitration board to settle wage and other differences; administration has threatened a veto.
Pay & Benefits
Deferred vs. Postponed
A primer on the differences between deferred and postponed retirement.
Defense
Panel supports changes to Coast Guard modernization
Bill would require the agency to remove an industry team as the troubled project’s lead systems integrator within four years.
Defense
Immigration bill blocked as Senate undecideds join foes
Supporters fall 14 votes short of the 60 needed to limit debate.
Oversight
Agencies processing discrimination complaints faster
Complaints are taking longer once they reach the EEOC, however.
Defense
Lawmakers push Homeland Security to track visitor departures
Agency says it plans to have exit element in place by 2009.
Pay & Benefits
House backs 3.5 percent civilian pay raise
The White House says "arbitrary" across-the-board increase will cost agencies more than $600 million in fiscal 2008.
Defense
Panel moves to help State handle influx of passport requests
Measure waives an earlier congressional mandate that all new hires be used to fill State Department vacancies in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Defense
Locals pan DHS decision to ditch communications project
County officials upset by phase-out of tool to distribute disaster management software and establish interoperability standards.
Oversight
Budget office paints grim fiscal portrait of flood insurance program
Program's debt was $17.5 billion as of May; Congress has authorized FEMA to borrow $20.8 billion from the Treasury.
Pay & Benefits
FAA reauthorization bill to move without labor agreement
Committee Democrats may offer an amendment that would support union's position to retroactively require binding arbitration.
Pay & Benefits