Obama seeks to reset relationship with Netanyahu
- After a long and chilly four years, Barack Obama hopes to reset his relationship with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when he makes his first trip to Israel as president this spring.
View ArticleAnalysis: Obama, GOP disagree, again, on spending
- After two tumultuous years of budget brinkmanship, President Barack Obama and Republicans in Congress finally agree on something -- namely, that a previous 10-year pact to cut $1 trillion across the...
View ArticleStrange bedfellows: Business, labor on immigration
- Unlikely allies, business and labor leaders joined in support of the White House's immigration overhaul efforts Tuesday while also launching high-stakes negotiations to overcome an issue that has...
View ArticleFederal scientists crying foul over DATA Act's conference restrictions
A group of federal scientists is concerned that proposed restrictions on federal employees attending conferences could put scientific research behind the curve. The Assembly of Scientists wrote to the...
View ArticleGSA offers cash for ideas to reduce federal travel costs
The General Services Administration is offering $35,000 to the winner of a competition to identify ways for agencies to reduce travel costs.
View ArticleThe crisis in the Ukraine, the Mexican drug war, and Benghazi
Stratfor's Eugene Chausovsky and Fred Burton will talk about how U.S. foreign policy is being impacted by the crisis in the Ukraine, the drug war in Mexico, and the terror attacks in Benghazi. March 7,...
View ArticleThe crisis in Ukraine, the Mexican drug war, and Benghazi
Stratfor's Eugene Chausovsky and Fred Burton will talk about how U.S. foreign policy is being impacted by the crisis in the Ukraine, the drug war in Mexico, and the terror attacks in Benghazi. March...
View ArticleFederal travel restrictions are costing money and harming security
The restrictions on feds' travel opportunities are having too many unintended consequences, says Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal Business Partners.
View ArticlePer diem rates to go unchanged in fiscal 2015
The General Services Administration announced Friday the standard per diem rate wouldn't increase, but the agency did outline some new non-standard areas.
View ArticleAnalysis: Obama, GOP disagree, again, on spending
- After two tumultuous years of budget brinkmanship, President Barack Obama and Republicans in Congress finally agree on something -- namely, that a previous 10-year pact to cut $1 trillion across the...
View ArticleInside the DoD Reporter's Notebook: Declassifying cyber doctrine,...
In this edition of "Inside the DoD's Reporter's Notebook," the Pentagon declassifies its long-awaited joint doctrine for cyberspace operations; DoD tries to institutionalize gains on rapid acquisition,...
View ArticlePentagon announces several policy changes to cut travel expenses
In one of DoD's more creative responses to sequestration, the department is turning to credit card perks as one way to offset its appropriations cuts. The military services have begun implementing...
View ArticleOMB unties a few of the travel, conference spending knots
A CFO Alert tells agencies the White House would listen to proposals to spend more money on travel and conferences in 2015.
View ArticleNIH may be spared from sequestration, Cardin says
The Maryland Democrat fielded questions from National Institutes of Health employees at a town-hall meeting at the agency's Bethesda headquarters.
View ArticleOPM lets agencies decide if conferences count as training
It will be up to agencies to decide whether to pay for employees to go to such events as part of their official duties, the Office of Personnel Management says.
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