Oversight
Why Washington Is a City of Snow Wusses
Neither Southern nor Northern, we freak out every time the flakes fall.
Oversight
Play of the Day: Mr. Obama Goes to Israel (In the Spring)
Colbert examines the humor of an upcoming presidential trip.
Oversight
Analysis: Living With the Nuances, Ironies, and Flexibility of Sequestration
Now that sequestration is here to stay, we all have to learn to live with it.
Tech
Congress Gets Its Drone Memos, and Obama Gets His CIA Director
The Senate Intelligence Committee voted in favor of John Brennan's nomination to be CIA director.
Oversight
For Conflict Zones, Sequestration Is Even More Devastating
For people the world over, Washington's budget gridlock is a life and death situation.
Oversight
Inspectors General Dragged Into Sequestration Debate
House panel explores agency compliance with savings recommendations.
Oversight
Senator to USDA: Cancel Wine Tastings Before Furloughing Food Inspectors
Republican says conferences should be cut before employee salaries.
Oversight
Republicans Take Aim at Obama’s EPA Nominee
Most energy observers expect McCarthy to be confirmed, but her nomination still sets the stage for high drama.
Oversight
Play of the Day: The Sequester and the Worm
How can Dennis Rodman travel to North Korea when we have a budget crisis in the United States?
Oversight
Analysis: Sequestration May Be a Bad Idea Whose Time Has Come
Our government has lurched from one near disaster to another, doing just enough to prevent a cataclysm.
Oversight
House GOP Spending Plan Continues Sequester, Federal Pay Freeze
Proposal makes exceptions to mitigate across-the-board cuts for the Pentagon, VA, FBI and several other agencies.
Management
Obama’s Pick for Budget Director Greeted Warmly, If Politically
Sylvia Mathews Burwell’s nomination renews GOP calls for debt reduction.
News
Obama: 'We Can Manage Through' Sequester
President says with "outstanding leadership" agencies can figure out how to make cuts.
Management
GSA Seeing Some Success in Selling Real State, Efficient Leasing
Georgetown Heating Plant draws multiple private bids, hits $19 million.
Oversight
Issa Goes Directly to Agencies to Specify Spending Cuts
Letters to heads of 17 departments seek alternatives to sequester.
Oversight
Why Obama's Energy and EPA Nominees Could Get Held Up, Too
Both may face tough questions in the Senate.
Oversight
Obama Picks Head of Walmart Foundation to Be Budget Chief
Sylvia Mathews Burwell's name has been circulating for at least a month.
Oversight
EPA Funding Reductions Kneecap Environmental Enforcement
In two years, Congress cut EPA’s budget by a whopping 18 percent, from $10.3 billion to $8.5 billion.
Oversight
Play of the Day: The Sequester is Here. Now What?
SNL’s cold open features “the human cost” of the sequester.
Management