Feb 9th 2010
By CHARLES BABINGTON
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - Republican leaders expressed renewed skepticism Tuesday about President Barack Obama's call for a bipartisan forum on health care, raising questions about how much can be achieved at the televised event later this month...
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Feb 9th 2010
Federal workers, receiving even modest pay increases at a time when many Americans are just trying to hold on to their jobs, now fall into the category of high income earners.
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Lurita Doan
Feb 8th 2010
From "A look at Obama's 2011 budget for govt agencies" on FederalNewsRadio.com:
"The budget proposal would invest nearly $800 million in services targeting veterans who are homeless, in part, through partnerships with private and government groups...
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Feb 8th 2010
The President has requested a budget of $446.15 million for the Peace Corps. The proposed budget request reflects a plan for agency wide investment in quality growth, and will enable the Peace Corps to recruit, train, and support thousands of Americans willing to devote two years of their lives to public service in communities abroad.
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Federal Drive
Feb 6th 2010
By PHILIP ELLIOTT
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - Republicans sparred with President Barack Obama in their Saturday media addresses over proposals to create jobs, further evidence of the difficulty of bipartisan solutions to the nation's pressing problems...
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Feb 5th 2010
My weekly countdown of the three hottest stories of the week, as chosen by an expert Federal panel.
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Feb 5th 2010
The Partnership for Public Service explains.
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Feb 5th 2010
How does Congress go through the sifter on what the president proposes? Who has more clout? Congress, the White House, public opinion? We ask former Rep. Tom Davis.
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Feb 5th 2010
Government hires as private industry fires. But who and where?
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Feb 5th 2010
"The new budget now being trotted out for the Pentagon is a tired old document, bereft of the many significant changes needed to revive our decaying defenses. Worse, the Pentagon's masters and its peanut galleries in Congress, the press, and think tanks opine delusions that anything significant is changing."
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Feb 4th 2010
Request is larger than last year.
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Feb 4th 2010
Given the cuts made across the board in the proposed FY 2011 budget, Defense could easily have been considered low hanging fruit. So the biggest surprise may be no surprise at all, according to one analyst.
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Feb 4th 2010
The budget blueprint, released Monday, would reform the Workforce Investment Act, which accounts for $10 billion of funding in the departments of Labor and Education, and supports nearly 3,000 career centers nationwide and a range of other services, the Office of Management and Budget said in a fact sheet.
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Feb 4th 2010
A breakdown of President Barack Obama's proposed 2011 budget spending by agency _ in millions of dollars _ the percent change from estimates for 2010.State Department figures include other international programs...
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Feb 3rd 2010
The sales pitch has begun on the budget, as OMB Director Peter Orszag and others head to Capitol Hill to talk it up.
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