Defense

Lawmakers rip Pentagon plan to relocate civilian employees

House panel questions why employees at Defense facilities need security standards more stringent than those for other federal workers.

Management

White House floating compromise on postal overhaul bill

Plan could break stalemate with legislators.

Pay & Benefits

Bush administration, House at odds over 2006 pay raise

White House says across-the-board raise will hurt pay-for-performance efforts at Defense and Homeland Security.

Management

OMB, lawmakers spar over bid to overhaul civil service

Legislators reluctant to expand personnel reforms to entire federal workforce before seeing results at the Defense and Homeland Security departments.

Defense

House, Senate spar on protecting DHS whistleblowers

Bills in each chamber differ on whether to extend whistleblower rights to employees.

Management

Postal measure clears Senate panel; floor action uncertain

Bull shifts payment for the agency's military pensions back to the Treasury Department.

News

Conservatives still waiting for response to concerns on postal overhaul

GOPers blast bill sponsored by Government Reform Committee Chairman Tom Davis, R-Va., saying it increases the budget deficit.

Management

Senate committee approves measure that tweaks FOIA

Measure is a companion bill to broader legislation to overhaul the Freedom of Information Act.

Management

House to vote on postal overhaul bill

White House and bill's sponsors continue to negotiate over military pension language.

Management

Appropriators wary of requiring OMB to rate programs

Lawmakers fear legislation would give the White House too much control over agency activities.

Management

House chair questions agencies on food inspection duplication

FDA official counters that few facilities are inspected by more than one agency.

Pay & Benefits

Idea of TSP real estate fund gains ground on Capitol Hill

Passage of the measure would mark the first time the plan was changed over the objections of the TSP board of directors.

News

GAO: Postal Service must revamp operations to stay solvent

Report makes some of same recommendations included in postal reform legislation approved by House panel last month.

Management

House panel approves GSA reorganization

But Government Reform Committee members strike provision requiring that head of proposed Federal Acquisition Service be a political appointee.

News

Postal lobbyists plot next round for overhaul legislation

Backers are now trying to win over the White House, congressional leaders and House conservatives.

Management

White House, Congress at odds over postal law interpretation

Military pension funding remains a point of contention.

News

White House adamantly opposed to Senate postal bill

Administration won't support a Postal Service proposal to transfer to the Treasury Department the costs of retirement benefits related to employees' military service.

News

Lawmakers to team up on hiring legislation

Tom Davis, R-Va., and Jon Porter, R-Nev., seek to speed the federal hiring process; unions are wary.