Committee approves plan to protect feds’ credit during a shutdown

Federal employees that miss payments or default on loans due to missing paychecks from a government shutdown may not have to see those problems reflected in their credit scores.

• ● House OKs measure to prevent possible end-of-month shutdown

Security clearance reforms: our nation depends on it

Recent actions have dramatically reduced the backlog for investigations needed to grant security clearances. However, increases in the number of completed investigations created a whole new backlog in the next step of the process.