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OMB moves ahead with unloading excess real estate
In updating list of unneeded properties, agencies report progress identifying savings opportunities.
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After criticism, super committee to meet publicly again
Hearing will feature more testimony from Congressional Budget Office Director Doug Elmendorf.
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Individual contractors sue over right to make campaign gifts
Complaint criticizes 1972 election law for giving federal employees and corporations a privilege denied to individual awardees.
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HHS announces contribution to Obama regulatory reform
Three Medicare and Medicaid hospital management rules are aimed at both improving health care and saving money.
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Justice plans to cut four antitrust division field offices, employee relocation time
Measures are part of plan to reduce spending by $130 million.
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Super committee gets mixed messages on USPS
Recommendations range from “please save” the Postal Service to “stay out.”
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IG council honors star performers
14th annual awards ceremony highlights crime-fighting, exposure of waste and fraud.
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Bird in the Hand
GOP primary voters could choose the next president, if only they can make their peace with the front-runner.
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Canceled benefit renews political fight over health care law
Long-term care provision was always a steep climb, say backers of Affordable Care Act.
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Elouise Cobell, champion in landmark Indian lawsuit, dies
Blackfeet woman netted $3.4 billion for Native Americans in settlement over Interior’s handling of trust fund.
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FAA failing to keep airport terminal safety incidents grounded, GAO reports
Air traffic controller errors and other incident types are on the rise, auditors find.
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HHS drops controversial long-term care program
Staff at the CLASS office were reassigned last month.
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Homeland Security cracks down on workers’ outside employment
Proposed rules would require employees to get permission before agreeing to outside work including teaching, speaking and consulting.
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Senior execs get more help starting off on the right foot
Pilot program tempers the expectation that new SES members should walk in the door knowing everything.
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EPA chief: Agency feeling heat from right and left
Lisa Jackson says agency moves have angered people on both sides of the political aisle.
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House Democrats focus on Solyndra legal memo
Democrats say document shows the administration’s legal rationale for restructuring the $535 million federal loan guarantee of the now-defunct solar manufacturer.
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EPA plagued with poor budgetary and workforce organization, GAO reports
Agency produces unreliable budget reports and overlaps resources.
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White House council backs regulatory streamlining
Fourteen infrastructure projects flagged for expedited environmental review.
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The IRS isn’t watching purchase card transactions closely enough, study finds
Thousands of improper purchases took place between 2007 and 2009, IG says.
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