Oversight
Budget boosts and cuts, agency by agency
A comparison of the Bush administration's proposals for fiscal 2008 and 2009.
Oversight
Energy Department restructures clean coal program
Industrial alliance and lawmakers criticize decision to overhaul FutureGen program.
Oversight
Plain language bill clears house subcommittee
Measure would require federal agencies to use simple language in commonly used forms.
Defense
Lawmakers, Chertoff press for border funding
Homeland Security Department chief says he will request $12 billion for border security.
Oversight
Agencies' management grades continue to rise
In latest Bush administration score card, three agencies reach highest grades possible, 87 percent rate at least moderately acceptable.
Oversight
Bill would press agencies to reduce improper payments
Programs could face financial penalties for not reporting benefits paid out in error.
Defense
DHS chief eases enforcement of new border crossing rules
Agents will give travelers without the correct documents a warning, still allowing them into the country without delay.
Oversight
Oversight committee hopefuls enter the spotlight
Rep. Christopher Shays, R-Conn., appears to have the inside track to replace Rep. Tom Davis, R-Va., as the top Republican on the House panel.
Oversight
FDA reverses course, will not close field laboratories
Agency officials had said closing the labs would consolidate efforts and make testing more efficient.
Oversight
Senators push to scrap limits on women's procurement program
Small Business Administration’s definition of underrepresentation would bar thousands of eligible firms from set-asides, lawmakers say.
Defense
Lockheed-Boeing bomber partnership draws interest
Air Force chief calls next-generation bomber one of his top priorities.
Oversight
House chairman compiling list of IGs' unused recommendations
Lists to be used as tool for aggressive oversight of Bush administration.
Oversight
Bush orders agencies to ignore earmarks
Move affects only those included in committee reports rather than the text of legislation; analysts question whether president’s overall earmark reduction effort will work.
Oversight
IRS nominee faces tough questions from Senate panel
Potential commissioner promises to work closely with Finance Committee on overhaul of the tax code.
Oversight
GAO chief reprises warning of unsustainable deficits
David Walker tells Senate Budget Committee that "the passage of time only serves to worsen this situation."
Oversight
Stimulating Bipartisanship
Economic worries have sent congressional Democrats and Republicans scrambling to the center to pass a stimulus package.
Oversight
Bush seeks hiring preferences for spouses of veterans
In State of the Union address, president also pledges to eliminate 151 "wasteful or bloated programs."
Oversight
GSA inspector general says he's been cleared of misconduct charges
Complaints by counsel’s office dismissed by oversight panel, according to IG Brian Miller.
Oversight
Task force takes global view of digital archiving
Experts say digital preservation to be a top international priority.
Oversight