Defense
Defense secretary possibility made name opposing global warming accord
Forget about his Israel comments. Chuck Hagel's record on the environment is the real problem.
Oversight
Poll shows ambivalence on fiscal cliff, support for Rice
Public is OK with raising taxes on the wealthy and against entitlement reform, survey finds
Oversight
The new Congress: Nine things to know
Congress is still the same bundle of dysfunction and dyspepsia that it was on Tuesday.
Management
Postal Service defaults on payment to Treasury
Congress has punted on the question of a solution until after the election.
Tech
Meteorologists ask lawmakers for a weather commission
Proposed center would advise policymakers on setting priorities.
Management
Analysis: Why Republicans need to get FEMA right
Americans have come to see the federal government as essential to disaster relief.
Oversight
Suicide of lawmaker's nephew leads to military anti-hazing bill
Legislation would create a database of hazing incidents.
Pay & Benefits
Tax cut deal boosts retirement contributions for new feds
Democrats stave off proposal that would have required all employees to contribute more to their pensions to pay for unemployment insurance extension.
Oversight
Capital relieved as payroll measure clears House
Differences remain large over how to pay for the deal, with Republicans looking to areas liking freezing wages of federal workers.
Oversight
Senate leaders hopeful spending deal can be worked out
Tax and spending issues still dog lawmakers as deadline to prevent much of government from shutting down looms.
News
How could Rick Perry get rid of the Commerce Department?
The agency was founded in 1913 at the end of the Taft administration to be the business counterpart to the Department of Labor.
Oversight
Obama to name former utility executive as Commerce chief
John Bryson would inherit a department expected to be at the center of efforts to overhaul government.
Defense
Obama thanks troops involved in bin Laden raid
The president met with members of SEAL Team 6, before addressing 2,500 soldiers in a Fort Campbell aircraft hangar.
Defense
U.S. forces kill Osama bin Laden
American military operation takes out "mass murderer" inside Pakistan, President Obama tells nation in stunning late-evening announcement.
Oversight
Obama unveils deficit reduction framework
Administration claims $4 trillion through spending cuts, calls for repeal of Bush tax cuts.
Oversight
Brink of a shutdown: How did it get to this point?
Those Americans who disdain government in the abstract are about to have their contempt put to the test.
News
The budget skirmish ends, the war begins
The House, Senate and White House kept agencies open. Now come the real battles.
News
Obama: No radiation risk to America
President orders study of nuclear plant safety in the United States.
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