Senators Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-OK) and Mark Pryor (D-AR) have introduced a bill prohibiting the federal government from employing those with seriously delinquent tax debts.
• Leave a CommentThe author says that the government has embezzled all surplus Social Security revenue, generated by the 1983 payroll tax hike, and spent the money on wars and other government programs.
• Leave a CommentAbout 115,000 federal workers across four agencies are having to take an unpaid day off Friday, turning their Memorial Day weekend into a four-day mini-vacation.
• Leave a CommentFurloughs for the U.S. Park Police forced by the budget cuts known as sequestration will end June 1, the National Park Service will announce Friday, because the agency was able to find other savings to offset them.
• Leave a CommentThe author says it is difficult to fire federal employees because of a “culture of lowered expectations synonymous with government bureaucracy.”
• Leave a CommentEd Pratt has worked for the government for 61 years with no plans to retire.
• Leave a CommentPresident Obama on Thursday nominated former State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland to be the department’s top diplomat for Europe and Eurasia.
• Leave a CommentLegislation has been introduced that would establish an independent task force or commission to analyze VA’s disability benefits claims processing system. The task force would be charged with examining the root causes of VA’s backlog and providing solutions for ending it by 2015.
• Leave a CommentAnother few months have passed since the debt ceiling was raised and time for another raise in our debt. How will your retirement annuity payments and your G fund investments be impacted?
• Leave a CommentThe IRS official who oversaw the unit responsible for the targeting of conservative groups has been placed on administrative leave.
• Leave a CommentA former postal worker from Birmingham has pleaded guilty in a mail theft case that involved re-directing packages – one that contained 11 handguns – to an accomplice, federal authorities announced this morning.
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