Oversight

Federal Deficit Is Set to Rise Sharply, CBO Warns

Growing shortfalls will limit lawmakers' flexibility to handle fiscal challenges.

Oversight

Play of the Day: Fox News Has A Beef With How Ferguson Has Been Covered

A news organization is upset with how other news organizations are covering a national event.

Nextgov

Thousands of Weather Satellite Bugs Won’t Be Fixed For Years

IG slams Raytheon and NOAA for failing to fix security holes on ground control system.

Management

Issa Attacks Labor Department's Elevator Posters, PR Contests

'Wasteful' practices included hiring Nationals mascot, publishing employee magazine.

Oversight

John Boehner's Greatest Acts as a Wind-Up Monkey

The Speaker of the House says he is little more than a toy monkey operated by his staff.

Defense

How Obama Plans to Fix Veterans’ Mental Health Care

The White House boasts progress on improving services, but Republicans aren’t impressed.

Management

It Could Get a Lot Harder for Social Security to Close Field Offices

Senator introduces bill that would require a public comment period on planned closures and a report to Congress.

Oversight

Democrats Are (Slowly) Learning to Love Obamacare

Democrats are getting more comfortable talking about the law, but don’t expect them to make it a central part of their campaigns.

Oversight

Paul Ryan Says His Big Ideas Will Have to Wait

Ryan's far-reaching plans for overhauling entitlement programs and the tax code are likely going to stay in the development stage for another two years.

Oversight

Play of the Day: The Problem With Internet Headlines

Last Week Tonight's John Oliver literally destroys something, instead of using words.

Oversight

The Senate's Scattershot Approach to Ferguson

Lawmakers are pursuing a subcommittee hearing, a bill, and review of a Defense program, but nothing is expected to pass when senators return in September.

Oversight

Two Americans Have Beaten Ebola, but We Don’t Know How

The two infected aid workers have been released from the hospital.

Oversight

Clintonphobia: Why No Democrat Wants to Run Against Hillary

Given the Clintons' reputation for retaliating for betrayals, it's just not worth it in 2016.

Oversight

CDC Counts 68 Ebola Scares in United States

Agency works closely with hospitals and clinics to determine whether or not patients should be tested.

Oversight

Fight Brews Over How Long a Shutdown-Avoiding Measure Should Last

Some want all 2015 spending issues to be pushed into the next Congress.

Tech

McConnell Promises Spending Standoff Over Obama’s Green Agenda

The GOP leader stopped short of an explicit shutdown threat, but he did say a Republican majority would use the budget to go after EPA’s environmental rules.