According to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), more federal employees retired in 2013 than in the past several years. The number of government employee retirement applications received last year was 114,697. In a fascinating detail, the number of retirement applications has been so high that OPM has published statistics about the backlog of retirement […]
The rap group Insane Clown Posse (ICP) has sued the federal government for making the “unwarranted and unlawful decision” to classify fans of the band, dubbed “Juggalos,” as criminal gang members Read More: washingtontimes.com
House Republicans have submitted a revised short-term proposal to raise the federal debt ceiling and reopen the government, offering President Obama another option Friday as he hosted Senate Republicans at the White House in an effort to build on the first signs of bipartisan progress on the issues. Read More
As people are waking and finding out that the United States Congress has allowed the Federal Government to be shut down, many are wondering how that effects them or if they should even care about it at all. Well the great people over at USA Today put together a graphic that shows just how people […]
Federal agencies will begin telling employees on Friday if they will be required to work or be furloughed during a partial government shutdown, according to union presidents who were briefed Thursday morning by Obama administration officials. Read More
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will ask Congress on Friday for greater power to shrink the federal government, and his first idea is merging six sprawling trade and commerce agencies whose overlapping programs can be baffling to businesses, a senior administration official told The Associated Press. SEE ALSO: Why The First Lady Can’t Win Obama […]
VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: The cost of shuttering federal government offices for five days during this winter’s back-to-back snowstorms was an estimated $71 million a day, tens of millions less than previously estimated, the official responsible for the shutdown told a congressional committee Tuesday. Officials had earlier estimated that the federal shutdowns cost about $100 […]
