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Obama's 'regulatory czar' leaving 3 Aug 2012 | 11:18 pm
White House official Cass Sunstein - known as “the regulatory czar,” one of the most powerful little-known people in Washington - is leaving the administration.
Congress delays posting of execs' financial disclosure forms 3 Aug 2012 | 08:27 am
Congress on Thursday delayed for a month the posting online of financial disclosure forms of 28,000 senior military officers and federal civilian executives.
TSA, union reach deal on labor agreement 2 Aug 2012 | 11:07 pm
The Transportation Security Administration and its union struck a deal Thursday for the agency's first collective bargaining agreement.
Administration spells out doom of sequestration cuts 2 Aug 2012 | 06:00 am
The $109 billion in sequestration budget cuts scheduled to go into effect Jan. 2 would likely mean hiring freezes, furloughs and staffing reductions at the Defense Department, FBI, Border Patrol and T...
GSA bonuses millions higher than previously reported 2 Aug 2012 | 03:04 am
The General Services Administration gave out nearly $30 million in previously unreported bonuses in fiscal 2011. In all, it spent $44 million on employee bonuses last year.
House approves bill to fire employees who don't pay tax debts 2 Aug 2012 | 12:04 am
Federal employees could lose their jobs if they don't pay off tax debts, under a bill that passed the House on Tuesday.
Data breaches up 19 percent, GAO reports 1 Aug 2012 | 06:03 am
Federal data breaches jumped 19 percent last year, the Government Accountability Office said Tuesday.
Deal reached to avert shutdown this fall 1 Aug 2012 | 04:00 am
President Obama, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio., and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., have struck a deal to avert a government shutdown at the end of the fiscal year Sept. 30.
Open government groups denounce proposed penalties for classified leaks 1 Aug 2012 | 12:53 am
Twenty-three open government and free speech groups are denouncing a Senate bill that would strip current or former intelligence employees of their pensions if an agency head decides an employee has i...
Labor Dept. says contractor layoff notices not needed for sequestration 31 Jul 2012 | 06:11 am
Federal contractors should refrain from warning their employees about potential layoffs due to the possibility of severe automatic budget cuts — known as sequestration — taking effect Jan. 2, the Labo...
