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  <title><![CDATA[IRS draws bipartisan fire at hearing]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The nation&apos;s top tax official apologized for the agency&apos;s treatment of conservative groups, denied he lied to Congress about it, and insisted that politics did not motivate the agency&apos;s decision to give Tea Party groups extra scrutiny.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[DoD approves Apple iPhones, iPads for military use]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The Defense Department will allow government-issued iPhones and iPads to connect to the military&apos;s networks, the Pentagon announced Friday.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Obama names new IRS commissioner]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[President Obama has named a new acting IRS commissioner.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[FBI&apos;s Mueller expects furloughs next year]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[FBI Director Robert Mueller told lawmakers last week he expects the sequester&apos;s budget cuts will force him to furlough agents in fiscal 2014.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[IRS acting commissioner resigns in wake of scandal]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The top official at the Internal Revenue Service stepped down Wednesday amid a fast-building scandal over agency employees allegedly targeting for excessive scrutiny conservative groups who were seeking tax-exempt status.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Justice Department launches criminal probe at IRS]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The IRS inspector general blamed &apos;ineffective management&apos; for the targeting of conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status by IRS employees in a report released late Tuesday.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[DNI Clapper: No furloughs for civilian intel workers]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Federal employees at civilian intelligence agencies will most likely be spared furloughs this year, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said Tuesday.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Courts seek $73M in emergency funding]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The federal courts are seeking an additional $73 million in emergency funds for this year to prevent layoffs and other repercussions from sequester-related budget cuts.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Report: Recruit more science and tech talent]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Federal agencies must creatively and aggressively recruit science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medical employees to keep up with rising demand and competition from the private sector, according to a new report that will be released Thursday.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[DoD employees to get 11 furlough days]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The Defense Department plans to furlough some 680,000 civilian employees for  11 days by the end of September as the result of sequester-related budget cuts.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Afghanistan overtaxes U.S. contractors, IG finds]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Afghanistan has slapped US-funded contractors working on reconstruction efforts with nearly $1 billion in taxes since 2008, often in spite of clear tax exemption agreements, a government watchdog has found.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[As wildfire season looms, sequester cuts firefighters]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The sequester will cost the Forest Service about 500 firefighters and 50 fire engines this year, even as the agency expects another rough season of drought-fueled wildfires.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[FBI to investigate Tea Party tax affair]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday he&apos;s opened a criminal inquiry into the Internal Revenue Service&apos;s handling of applications for tax-exempt status by Tea Party groups.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Is a billion-dollar border security program finally due?]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The Department of Homeland Security has taken a positive step in one of the longer running procurement sagas of recent years, issuing downselect notices to several contractors to compete in the next phase of a controversial border security program, source]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Senators: Sequester-avoiding deal not likely before Aug. recess]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The onetime target of early August for passing sweeping fiscal legislation is slowly being replaced by a consensus that striking a &apos;grand bargain&apos; could prove difficult.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Access to Federal News Radio website restored after hacking attack]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Full access to the news websites FederalNewsRadio.com and sister station WTOP.com was fully restored Saturday after a hacking attack had temporarily blocked some users&apos; access last week.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Saudi traveler with pressure cooker arrested at Detroit airport]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Federal agents arrested a suspicious traveler with an altered Saudi Arabian passport at Detroit Metro Airport over the weekend after discovering a pressure cooker in his luggage.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Green of the road: Airlines, hotels, cars more eco-friendly]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[When you travel these days, you&apos;re doing so in a more environmentally friendly fashion than you did a decade ago &#45; and you probably can&apos;t even tell.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[TSA officers, air marshals file legal warning over knives]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Nine groups of airline workers and travelers filed a legal challenge Monday urging the Transportation Security Administration against allowing passengers to carry small knives on planes.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Planes on the same runway more often, watchdog warns]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Airline passenger planes are being reported on the same runway with other planes and vehicles &amp;#8212; and sometimes narrowly avoiding collisions &amp;#8212; hundreds of times more each year, the Transportation Department&apos;s inspector general warned Thursday.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[OPM cancels benefits conference]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Tight budgets have forced the Office of Personnel Management to cancel this year&apos;s benefits conference.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Budget cuts push conferences online]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Decreasing travel budgets are forcing agencies to conduct more meetings and training seminars online.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[GOP reaction in IRS case targeting tea party groups spurs calls for probe, apology]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[President Obama should apologize for the admission by the IRS that it singled out conservative tea party groups for extra scrutiny as they applied for non-profit status, Republican members of Congress said Sunday.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[News Briefs: May 13, 2013]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Five companies have prequalified to build and maintain geothermal energy projects for the Defense Department, under the first phase of a $7 billion Army contract.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Public service: an opportunity, not a burden]]></title>
  <link>http://www.federaltimes.com/article/20130512/ADOP06/305050004</link>
  <description><![CDATA[I entered public service under unorthodox circumstances, after a tragedy hit in my hometown of Mount Pleasant, Iowa.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Obama orders gender pay gap study]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The White House on Friday ordered agencies to start studying ways to narrow the pay gap between men and women in the federal government.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Postal Service reports $3.1 billion loss for first half of 2013]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Postal Service reports latest financial quarterly results]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[IG frustrated by OPM&apos;s handling of improper payments to dead retirees]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The Office of Personnel Management is failing to chase down suspected pension fraud in its quest to speed up pension processing, the agency&apos;s inspector general testified Thursday.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Obama directs agencies to make more data public]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Agencies are under more pressure to release government data to the public and ensure it is packaged in formats that promote widespread use and dissemination.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Obama faces battle over Labor secretary nominee]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[President Obama faces a potentially big Senate battle over his nominee for labor secretary, Thomas Perez.]]></description>
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