Oversight
Congress to White House: What’s the sequestration plan?
House overwhelmingly passes bill requiring Obama to detail across-the-board budget cuts.
Pay & Benefits
Labor-management council reviews employee performance measures
Members also mull agency efforts to deepen consultation before major decisions.
Management
Growth in federal contracts called unsustainable
Budget cuts may stem the proliferation of multiple award vehicles.
Oversight
Republicans not spoiling for a shutdown fight
GOP leaders try to avoid a messy debate before the elections.
Oversight
Republicans seize on new report linking tax cuts, jobs
The White House refutes the methodology of the Ernst and Young study.
Management
Military contractors to take aim at Defense cuts -- and other news
Military contractors; Justice v. Apple; and avoiding a shutdown fight.
Management
Working Together to Fight Cybercrime
Homeland Security cyber chief Mark Weatherford joins the FBI and Defense Department in the fight against hackers.
Management
Appeals of post office closings prove costly
Price tag is more than $3,000 per challenge.
Tech
GSA chief speaks on employee morale, agency flaws
Tangherlini asks IT contractors for help with modernizing.
Oversight
Another debt ceiling fight could be brewing
House minority whip urges GOP not to use the nation's borrowing authority as leverage.
Defense
Sequestration will cost 2.14 million jobs, study says
Automatic cuts would slash hundreds of thousands of federal positions, report finds.
Pay & Benefits
GSA suspends hiring, drastically scales back executive bonuses
Agency also eliminates awards program that offered iPods and other high-end prizes.
Management
You’re a Manager. Not Royalty.
There are lessons to be learned from the Penn State scandal.
Management
GSA has IG look at contracts for canceled energy conference
‘Rigorous review’ by cost-wary agency uncovered issues, source says.
Management
Clinton sets secretary of State travel record
The diplomat has traveled to more countries than any previous secretary.
Management
Bernanke warns of dire risk from fiscal cliff inaction
Fed chief cites need to rein in deficit but also consider fragile recovery.
Oversight
Senator blasts GOP resistance to a budget deal that includes taxes
Patty Murray voices hope for grand bargain to avoid ‘fiscal cliff.'
Management
State still short on Foreign Service workers, GAO finds
Agency has yet to fill employment voids auditors identified in 2008.
Oversight