Oversight
OMB performance specialist demands 'more mission for the money'
Shelley Metzenbaum offers rundown of agencies embracing data to save money and boost accountability.
Oversight
Financially ailing Postal Service gets a reprieve
Measure keeping government open also allows USPS to defer multibillion-dollar retiree health benefit payment.
Oversight
Federal budget managers stay upbeat despite challenges
Seventy-one percent of survey respondents are satisfied or very satisfied with their jobs.
Oversight
Senators consider British approach to regulatory review
Warner examines proposal to create CBO-like body to gauge costs of rules.
Defense
House report slams 10-year-old TSA
Republican lawmakers blast agency as ineffective and offer recommendations to alter its course.
Oversight
Council moves forward on performance management plan
Labor-management group recommends better training for supervisors and more feedback between employees and their bosses.
Oversight
Lawmakers, OMB push to ban more 'bad-actor' contractors
Reasons for agency reluctance include lack of awareness of the rules and difficulty recognizing contractor's names in a database, panelist says.
Oversight
Postal Service will resume FERS retirement contributions next month
USPS lost $5.1 billion in fiscal 2011 and expects to run out of money in fiscal 2012.
Oversight
OMB touts $17.6 billion in savings from Campaign to Cut Waste
The reduction in the governmentwide payment error rate puts the administration on track to prevent $50 billion in improper payements by 2012.
Oversight
Bad-Hand Barack
The president didn’t create the bad economy. But now he owns it, whether he likes it or not.
Oversight
HHS accelerates grants to create health care jobs
Sebelius welcomes Supreme Court decision to rule on health care law, saying it will help states engage in implementation.
Oversight
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau official responds to critics
General counsel tells Federalist Society charges of bureaucratic overreach are ‘abhorrent.’
Oversight
Sequestration isn't a sure thing
Lawmakers indicate they might rethink the automatic cuts that would be triggered if the super committee fails.
Defense
Panetta plays last card, warns Defense cuts could lead to attack on the U.S.
Pentagon head says a reduced Defense budget 'invites aggression.'
Oversight
GOP aide mocks Democrats' super proposal
Document says 'Only a Democrat would think you can pick up $350 billion from miscellany.'
Defense
Soldier found guilty of killing Afghan civilians for sport
Army Staff Sgt. Calvin Gibbs faces a maximum sentence of life without parole.
Defense
Odierno repeats Pentagon warnings against sequestration
Defense Department is already supposed to cut $450 billion, but faces up to $600 billion more in in cuts if a deal isn't reached.
Oversight
Concerns growing that FHA could go broke
Forthcoming reports could spark debate about government role in housing market.
Oversight
Senate OKs bill to repeal 3 percent withholding tax for government contractors
House members are expected to support the legislation, which could be headed to President Obama next week.
Oversight