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How Many House Committees Are Currently Probing the Obama Administration?

Chris Frates | May 14, 2013

A look at which House committees have inquiries into Obama Administration issues

How Goldman Sachs Can Help Save the Safety Net

Sophie Quinton | May 9, 2013

A novel idea would make private investors in charge of funding social services. Will it catch on?

Roger Sherman, Minority Chief Counsel

Catherine Hollander | April 17, 2013

Roger Sherman started working for Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., as his defense and foreign-affairs staffer back in 1990—one week before the first Gulf War started.

The New Orleans Restaurant That Offers a Life-Changing Experience

Adam B. Kushner | April 8, 2013

Café Reconcile brings at-risk teens into the workforce—and serves the best red jambalaya in town.

Budget Cuts Come to Congress

Billy House | March 4, 2013

While lawmakers enjoy the constitutionally protected luxury of not having to worry about their own pay or jobs being impacted by the sequester cuts they helped to impose, their staff, office expenses, and committee budgets have no such protection.

Furloughs Come to Main Street

Nancy Cook | February 28, 2013

Automatic spending cuts will affect federal workers wherever they live—even thousands of miles from Washington.

Some Federal Workers See Silver Lining in Spring Furloughs

Billy House | February 27, 2013

Spring is near, temperatures are warming, and the Nationals are preparing to defend their National League East crown, raising the question: Is there ever a good time to get furloughed?

U.S. Fiscal Future Likely Hinges on Public Reaction to Sequester

Billy House | February 25, 2013

Don’t expect Congress and President Obama to reach agreement on how to turn off the sequester’s $85 billion in across-the-board federal spending cuts before they kick in Friday.

If Sequestration Happens, This Small Agency May Get A Flood of Complaints From Furloughed Workers

Kellie Lunney and Government Executive | February 25, 2013

The small federal agency that handles appeals from government workers who have been furloughed could be inundated with complaints if sequestration happens.

Where Automatic Spending Cuts May Hit Hardest

Matt Vasilogambros | February 21, 2013

Here are some of the programs that would be pared as part of the sequester, according to a report by the White House Office of Management and Budget and letters from administration officials

The Young and the Powerless

Ronald Brownstein | February 21, 2013

Social Security and most of Medicare are exempt from automatic spending cuts. That means the sequester falls hardest on America's youth.

Play of the Day: Smell Like a Mail Carrier

Ross Gianfortune and Government Executive | February 21, 2013

With the news that Mississippi finally ratified the 13th amendment due to Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln, The Daily Show went back to 19th Century News for the story. On NBC, Jay Leno compared the Senate to a certain famous ex-daytime television show and Jimmy Fallon noted the Chinese hacking attacks on American companies. Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel both had made good fun of the United States Postal Service’s new plan to sell postal clothing.

Protesters Disrupt Deficit-Reduction Breakfast

Niraj Chokshi | February 19, 2013

At least five protesters interrupted a Politico breakfast on deficit reduction Tuesday morning, demanding tax and employment equity.

Watchdog Finds Well-Oiled Revolving Door Linking SEC and Industry

Kristin Roberts | February 10, 2013

Former SEC employees routinely helped companies overseen by the securities regulator to influence rulemaking, soften enforcement actions, and secure exemptions from federal law, according to a report that will be released Monday by the Project On Government Oversight.

Obama's Bad-Cop Act is Working

Jill Lawrence | February 1, 2013

Obama is often playing bad cop to Biden's good cop these days. Bad news for the Kumbaya crowd: It seems to be working.

Team Boehner Announces Political Staff Assignments

Alex Roarty | January 23, 2013

John Boehner names longtime aide Kevin McGrann as executive director of his political operation, one of several personnel changes announced this week by the House speaker.

House Vote to Block Federal Workers' Pay Raise Postponed

Billy House | January 22, 2013

Republican leaders have postponed a vote planned for this week on a bill to block President Obama’s proposed across-the-board pay increase for federal workers in 2013.

Federal Workers Union Blasts GOP Pay-Freeze Effort

Billy House | January 16, 2013

The largest federal employees union is lashing out at a House Republican plan to again vote to block President Obama’s proposed across-the-board pay increase for federal workers in 2013--and billing it as a way to help rein in Washington spending.

Obama Could Look West to Fill Interior Job

Coral Davenport | January 16, 2013

President Obama could look west to fill the job of Interior secretary that will become vacant in March with the departure of Ken Salazar. Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire, who supports the president’s progressive clean-energy and climate-change agenda, is one possible candidate.

Here's a Game: Hostess Cupcake Icing, Charlie Brown's Hair, or Jack Lew's Signature?

Cory Bennett | January 11, 2013

Nearly every single late-night show went after the signature of President Obama's current chief of staff and Treasury secretary nominee, Jacob Lew. If confirmed, "this pubic hair masquerading as an autograph will appear on all our money," said Stephen Colbert. "Our money should have nothing ridiculo...

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