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• Largest federal labor union endorses Obama 05/09/08 American Federation of Government Employees President John Gage, a Democratic superdelegate, also commits to personally backing the candidate.
• Labor Department wants more info from union officials 05/09/08 Federal officials propose more detailed financial disclosure form.
• Defense to review 'unnecessary duplication' among services 05/09/08 Critics have complained that vast sums of money are wasted due to the military operating four air forces, two land armies and overlapping intelligence and space programs.
• Postal Service is $700 million in the red 05/08/08 For the quarter, the agency handled 51.3 billion pieces of mail, a decline of 3.3 percent from the same period a year earlier.

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  Competing To the Death
  President Bush's much heralded competitive sourcing program is on life support.
  

• Contractors' offshore tax havens under more scrutiny 05/08/08 House Dems urge Treasury secretary to back legislation requiring overseas subsidiaries of U.S. contractors to be treated as American employers for the purpose of payroll taxes.
• Panel sinks Navy's $2.5B request for DDG-1000 destroyer 05/08/08
• House Oversight Committee clears measure to sell excess federal properties 05/08/08
• FBI seizes Doan, Rice case files in raid of OSC chief's office 05/07/08

• FBI search, leaked documents lead to renewed calls for ousting of Scott Bloch 05/07/08
• Panelists press Congress to rewrite law governing federal disaster response 05/07/08
• FBI raids special counsel's office 05/06/08
• Authorization bill attracts contracting reform amendments 05/06/08
• Kennedy circulates options on strengthening FDA oversight 05/06/08
• Army officers warn of atrophy in critical skills 05/06/08
• From Nextgov.com: GSA panel calls for clarity, transparency in contract pricing 05/06/08

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