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  • HHS financial management practices ‘unacceptable,' lawmakers say
  • GSA revises plan for Coast Guard headquarters due to budget cuts
  • Senators propose civilian pay freeze through 2014
  • McKeon on potential BRAC request: ‘Kill it'
  • Administration to push bill for fast-track reorganization authority
  • FDA whistle-blowers' lawsuit raises questions about email surveillance
  • Pentagon punts on major program cuts
  • Bulk of IG office's staff likely to be laid off, reassigned
  • Senate extends stopgap funding for FAA
  • Pentagon to request 2 new rounds of BRAC
  • Pentagon plans for five years of reduced raises for civilian employees
  • Dozens of federal programs to be eliminated
  • Budget cuts force agencies to reduce staff, space
  • No big cuts anticipated for Pentagon's IT budget, deputy CIO says
  • Pentagon on track to meet 2017 deadline for full audit, experts say
  • House passes stop-gap funding bill for FAA
  • Details coming soon on TSP's planned Roth fund
  • Congress to receive White House budget Feb. 13
  • GSA launches courthouse project over lawmakers' objections
  • Zients to serve as acting OMB director
  • Obama government reorganization plan likely to meet resistance
  • IRS offers second round of buyouts, early outs
  • Air Force details bases absorbing employee cuts
  • Senators seek to restore IG's budget days before RIF notices go out
  • IRS workload ‘becoming unmanageable' under budget cuts
  • USDA to close field offices, labs
  • Lew to finish work on 2013 budget before departing OMB
  • Budget cuts hamstring IG's office
  • Proposed pay raise draws ire from all sides
  • 2012's biggest budget losers: State and HUD
  • Obama to propose 0.5% pay raise for 2013
  • Obama defies GOP lawmakers with recess appointments
  • U.S. to drop long-war ability, focus on Pacific
  • Inmates register as tax preparers
  • GAO again finds shortcomings in government's financial reporting
  • Education Department IG to lead oversight of Recovery Act spending
  • Labor-management partnerships' days may be numbered
  • House leaders agree to pass short-term payroll tax cut extension
  • BP oil spill compensation fund to receive independent audit
  • Payroll tax cut, unemployment extension falls short in House
  • Panel seeks tracking, displaying federal spending data
  • Spending bill delays DHS headquarters project 5 years
  • Contractor disclosure could survive under omnibus
  • Congress approves 2012 spending bill
  • Lawmaker: Congress reached budget deal to avoid shutdown
  • Report: High-tech effort needed to catch wasteful spending
  • FOIA watchdogs: Exemptions up 33 percent under Obama
  • Agencies notifying employees of possible shutdown
  • Gates on D.C. lawmakers: ‘Oversized egos and undersized backbones'
  • Lieberman: Give deficit bills up-or-down vote
  • Postal Service puts facility closures on hold
  • DoJ: Recoveries in fraud cases top $5 billion
  • OPM: 28.5% of new hires are vets
  • Blind spot: DoT not tracking highway overruns, delays
  • News Digest: Dec. 12
  • OMB asks Defense to shift programs out of war bill
  • Delays to DHS headquarters add $500M
  • Obama calls for $2B in energy savings performance contracts
  • Spending bill passes — now the hard part
  • Obama orders agencies to improve records management policies
  • IG: Energy should consolidate labs
  • Threats of budget cuts stifle federal leasing activity
  • Failure to reach deficit deal could mean extended pay freeze, layoffs for feds
  • News Briefs
  • Obama signs 2012 budget bill to fund some agencies
  • NASA employee named as SAVE award winner
  • FDIC, Surface Transportation Board are top agencies in survey
  • OMB: Improper payments drop in 2011
  • Postal Service to resume pension payments
  • Congress strikes 2012 budget deal for some agencies
  • Postal Service lost $5 billion in 2011; mail volume drops 2%
  • Obama orders travel, printing and IT savings
  • Senators reveal bipartisan plan to fix USPS' financial woes
  • Top procurement official to step down
  • Open-government groups protest rule allowing federal officials to lie
  • CBO details spending cuts if no deficit deal is reached
  • FEMA aims to reduce erroneous aid payments
  • Radical deficit-cutting options on table
  • Flat IT funding threatens cloud, mobile computing initiatives
  • Ron Paul to propose $1 trillion in spending cuts
  • Panetta wants full budget audit by 2014
  • GAO: No refund of overpaid pension money is owed to USPS
  • Proposed budget cuts would force downsizing at IRS, union says
  • VA's 11-day, $221K resort stay draws scrutiny
  • Panetta urges ‘carefully targeted' defense cuts
  • In Obama's ‘open government,' transparency elusive
  • News Briefs
  • Executive order cracks down on classified leaks
  • Work delayed on 2012 Defense budget
  • Political battle looms over Pentagon cuts
  • House passes CR to fund agencies through Nov. 18
  • No. 2 civilian at Defense warns Army, weapons face cuts
  • Congress looks at ways to fix budget process
  • House approves bill to keep government running through Oct. 4
  • Report: Obama must plan for a downsized government
  • Senate passes CR to fund government until Nov. 18
  • Congressional stalemate puts federal disaster funds at risk
  • News Digest: September 26
  • USPS rescue: What's in, what's out, what's next
  • ATF buyouts could slow investigations
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