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Government Shutdown 2011: 5 Immediate Consequences If It Happened
By Mary Phillips-Sandy - AOL NewsWill the United States federal government shut down on March 4? It's possible. This weekend the GOP-led House passed a new spending measure that included $61 billion in spending cuts. Senate Democrats have said they will not approve the measure, which targets education, consumer safety, health and other programs. The problem is, the spending measure that's currently in place is set to expire March 4, and Republican House Speaker John Boehner has said he will not agree to a short-term extension of that measure unless additional cuts are made. So unless a compromise is reached between now and ...
Feds Seek Computer Firewall to Block WikiLeaks 'Pollution'
By Sharon Weinberger - AOL NewsAmong the more striking aspects of the still unfolding WikiLeaks controversy are government demands that their workers -- and even federal contractors -- refrain from reading leaked classified documents, even though they are in the public domain. Now, according to one network security company, the government wants to install a system that can block unclassified computers from accessing WikiLeaks documents no matter where they originate. Fidelis Security, a Boston-based network security company that works with the military and other government agencies, says it's being asked to set up a ...
Obama Beats Republicans to the Punch, Proposes Federal Pay Freeze
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Nov. 29) -- In a modest yet conservative-minded decision, President Barack Obama proposed a two-year federal pay freeze on Monday to reduce the nation's rising debt. Should it pass, the salary freeze, which the White House is calling the first of many difficult decisions involving debt-reducing sacrifices, will apply only to civilian federal workers, meaning that it would not affect military personnel. "The hard truth is that getting this deficit under control is going to require some broad sacrifice and that sacrifice must be shared by employees of the federal government," Obama said ...
Obama to Freeze Pay for Federal Employees
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Nov. 29) -- President Barack Obama will announce a two-year pay freeze for federal employees Monday, a move White House officials say is the first of many difficult decisions that must be made to reduce the nation's mounting deficit. The White House said Monday that the freeze would apply to all civilian federal employees, including those working at the Department of Defense, but would not affect military personnel. The freeze is expected to result in more than $5 billion in savings over two years, according to Jeffrey Zients, a deputy director at the Office of Management and ...
Number of Federal Workers Earning Over $150,000 Doubles Under Obama
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Nov. 12) -- Working for the federal government is a good gig, if you can get it. The number of federal employees raking in over $150,000 a year has multiplied tenfold in the past half decade and doubled since Barack Obama became president, according to a USA Today analysis. Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, who will oversee a panel addressing federal pay levels, suggests that federal workers consider an immediate pay freeze along with a 10 percent salary reduction. "It's stunning when you see what's happened to federal compensation," Chaffetz says. "Every metric shows we're heading in the wrong ...
Nuclear Watchdog Agency Among 'Best' Federal Government Jobs
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyAt first blush, working for an agency that keeps tabs on critical safety issues at nuclear power plants staffed by the likes of Homer Simpson might not seem like the ideal job. OK, Homer is a fictional, animated character, cast in the Simpsons as a lazy, incompetent worker at a nuclear plant. But the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), which has the heart-stopping responsibility of policing the nation's nuclear facilities, tops a new survey of "best places" to work in the federal government. The fifth such list compiled since 2003 is the first report card on working conditions under the ...
Obama Shrinks Pay Increases for Federal Employees
By David Sessions - Politics DailyPresident Obama blocked routine pay raises scheduled for federal employees in 2010, holding increases to 2 percent instead of the previously planned 18.9 percent. Statutory formulas raise federal wages annually under the Federal Employees Pay Comparability Act of 1990, but presidents frequently take advantage of a loophole that allows them to present an "alternative" plan to reduce costs. Obama declared a state of "national emergency" in a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, citing rising unemployment and the strain the raises would place on a federal budget that is already stretched ...
Why a Doctor in Congress Has No Health Insurance
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyRep. Steve Kagen is a doctor, a Democrat and, as far as his office has been able to determine, the only member of Congress who does not have any kind of health insurance. The way he describes it, it happened as an afterthought. It was late 2006. He was finishing his new-member orientation in the basement of the Cannon House Office Building and hurrying to make a plane. A woman stopped him and said, "Hang on a minute -- don't you want to hear about the benefits?" Then, he recalls, she showed him "a whole cafeteria" of health insurance plans available to him and his family because he was now a ...
Federal Employee Pay Raises Reduced
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyInvoking his authority to set an alternative pay schedule for Federal employees in times of national emergency, President Bush has scaled back scheduled pay raises for thousands of Federal government employees. Federal employees are scheduled to receive an across the board pay raise of 2.5% at the beginning of next year, which will remain in effect. But many were also slated to receive cost-of-living adjustments averaging 12.5% on top of the general wage increase. That would have brought the total pay raise for some Federal employees to 15% next year.President Bush has eliminated the ...
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