Topic: U.S. General Services Administration
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Energy Voices Sally Jewell: How 'green' is the new Interior secretary?
Sally Jewell's first moves as secretary of the US Interior Department show so far that she's embracing her dual legacy as an environmental steward with rare ties to the oil industry, Graeber writes.
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Modern Parenthood Immigration reform: Teaching kids about the “pathway to citizenship”
As immigration reform and the pathway to citizenship are moving forward, an educator tells his idea for teaching kids about what's really American.
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Energy Voices A guide to public investments in clean energy technology
Energy innovation policy is often misrepresented as only research, Stepp writes, or largely ignored by advocates to support rigid economic doctrines or policy goals that divert attention from addressing climate change.
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GSA administrator behind Las Vegas conference no longer with agency
Officials confirmed that Jeffrey Neely is no longer an employee of the General Services Administration.
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Jimmy Kimmel cracks wise at Washington’s ‘Nerd Prom’ (+video)
President Obama was pretty funny at the White House Correspondents' Dinner Saturday night. But late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel was the real funny man, targeting just about every class of Washington celebrity.
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White House Correspondents Dinner: Obama mocks Romney, Secret Service, himself
Everyone is fair game for humorous jibes at the annual White House Correspondents Dinner. Saturday night was no exception as President Obama and MC Jimmy Kimmel made fun of the political class.
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Decoder Wire Backlash begins after Obama slow jams the news (+video)
Many Republicans are grousing about President Obama's appearance on 'Late Night With Jimmy Fallon' and complaining that he's just trying to distract Americans from his policy failures.
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Forget Romney: scandals plague Obama as campaign season begins
The Secret Service's prostitution problems, the GSA's Las Vegas parties and the latest gruesome photographs out of Afghanistan are all public relations problems for the President.
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"Fraud, waste, corruption:" Congress decries GSA culture
General Services Administration executives were in the hot seat for a second day of Congressional hearings as they faced scrutiny over misconduct.
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Decoder Wire GSA scandal: Does agency have culture of waste, fraud, and abuse?
Critics of the huge federal bureaucracy have a history of missteps to cite, from well before the latest GSA scandal, in which Jeffrey Neeley authorized $823,000 for a conference in Las Vegas.
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Decoder Wire Enjoy tax day 2012, next year could be 'Taxageddon'
Sure, this tax day won't be fun, but a raft of tax cuts are set to expire this year, and with Congress preoccupied by Election 2012, Americans face the prospect of a much bigger tax bill in 2013.
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The Monitor's View: The GSA and Secret Service scandals: Where's the public virtue?
The misconduct of Secret Service agents and General Services Administration (GSA) workers must lead to reforms and better education of public workers about their special role.
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GSA Executive Takes Fifth Amendment
The regional executive for the Western Regions Conference's chair was empty for the rest of the hearing after he invoked his privilege against self-incrimination.
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Decoder Wire GSA scandal: Congress gangs up on bureaucrats behaving badly (+video)
The one budget cut both parties love is government waste, and four congressional hearings on the GSA scandal give lawmakers the chance to drill that point home – repeatedly.
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Congress to investigate General Services overspending this week
US House and Senate committee hearings are scheduled this week to look into a spending scandal at the General Services Administration, the real estate arm of the federal government.
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Mystery construction site at White House: What's all the commotion?
The largest construction site at the White House in nearly 60 years has officials complaining about noise and the press corps conjecturing about what's really being built.
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Job listings: Plenty to come from projects in Washington State
Job listings will abound as contractors gear up for $2 billion in federal projects over the next two years.
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Plum Island, a former germ warfare testing site, gets rare look by environmentalists
Plum Island held an open house of sorts for environmental leaders Wednesday as the federal government proceeds with plans to relocate its 50-year-old animal disease research laboratory to Kansas and sell the 840-acre pork chop-shaped island off the eastern tip of New York's Long Island.
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John Paul Stevens: Supreme Court retirees keep lifetime pay
John Paul Stevens will retire from the Supreme Court but will get lifetime pay of $213,900 a year.
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What does it mean when the federal government shuts down?
With snow continuing to fall on Washington Wednesday evening, it looks likely that most government workers will get a longer 'snowcation.' The longest weather-related shutdown lasted a week in 1996. This one is at 3-1/2 days and counting.
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Will Scott Brown make the 'party of no' more obstructionist?
Democrats say Republicans use petty tactics to block President Obama's agenda. But Senate Democrats had a hard time passing legislation even when they had a filibuster-proof majority.
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Four charged in incident at Mary Landrieu’s office. Watergate 2?
James O’Keefe and three others are accused of attempted phone tampering in an office for Sen. Mary Landrieu. Liberals are likening the incident to the Watergate break-in.
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New green wonder: the Hanging Gardens of ... Portland?
A portion of Oregon's federal stimulus money is being used to create the world's largest 'living wall.'
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Contractors say stimulus has been slow to kick in
Construction is one of the industries most affected by the stimulus. Executives say the package has saved some jobs, but it hasn't expanded payrolls.
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Obama's call to arts
The president-elect's proposed Artists Corps is one plank in his push to revitalize the arts in education.
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