Oversight
EPA faces third straight year of cuts
Budget barely acknowledges the agency’s plans to regulate power-plant emissions.
Management
State Department budget request only slightly higher than 2012
Increase is especially small considering the agency's growing responsibilities.
Management
White House seeks Treasury savings through streamlining
Proposed new fee on large financial firms would compensate Americans and discourage future risk taking.
Management
Education budget focuses on college affordability
Plan increases Pell Grants and asks Congress to stop a interest-rate hike on student loans from going into effect in July.
Defense
President requests 'more disciplined' $613 billion Defense budget
White House wants $525.4 billion for regular defense and $88.5 billion for war account.
Oversight
Obama chief of staff: 'Congress needs to get its work done'
Jack Lew puts the ball in lawmakers' court on fiscal 2013 budget and payroll tax cut extension.
Oversight
House budget chairman puts emphasis on spending cuts
Democrats fail to take fiscal instability seriously, says Paul Ryan, R-Wis.
Management
Budget day arrives with low expectations
If history is a guide, the judgment that President Obama's budget is dead on arrival is probably accurate.
News
Putting the Postal Service's Losses in Perspective
This week's announcement that the U.S. Postal service had a less than happy holiday season, ending 2011 in the red, didn't quite tell the whole story.
Management
OPM sends acceptance notices to the wrong fellowship applicants
About 300 PMF semifinalists received the faulty decisions.
Management
Obama budget forecasts $1.33 trillion deficit for fiscal 2012
Projected deficit is higher than 2011's $1.296 trillion figure.
Management
State Department gets mixed review on Keystone pipeline process
Inspector general finds no conflicts of interest but faults depth of technical expertise.
Management
GAO faults Pentagon data measuring insourcing
Defense officials say continuing effort furthers strategic workforce goals.
Oversight
Postal regulator defends travel records after senator demands details
PRC chief Ruth Goldway comes under new scrutiny.
Management
Wondering 'Am I a Good Leader?'
Over the past six months Ive read a number of profiles on the COO of Facebook and, based on what Ive learned about her, have come up with three questions that can help determine if youre a good leader:
Management
Video: Low expectations for President Obama's budget request
Election-year proposal likely to be a 'tame document.'
Defense
White House budget to expand clean energy programs through Pentagon
Putting the increases in the Defense budget makes them a less likely target for Republican lawmakers.
Management
Federal budget proposal will spare entitlements, WSJ reports
Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security funding largely unchanged, paper says.
Defense