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President Obama signed legislation Tuesday to keep the government funded through the end of September and to give greater flexibility to a handful of agencies as they roll out the mandated across-the-board spending cuts known as sequestration. Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! News Tweet This Post
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Short-Term Flexibility Won’t Help Long-Term Impact of Sequestration
Posted by admin on March 27th, 2013
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No Comments »Defense officials press Congress for budget flexibility
Posted by admin on March 13th, 2013
By David Alexander WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Senior defense officials said on Tuesday they were doing their best to offset the worst impacts of $ 46 billion in budget cuts that began this month, but they will have to slash personnel and weapons programs if reductions keep coming in future years. Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter [...]
Posted in Breaking News Tags: Budget, Congress, defense, Flexibility, officials, Press No Comments »Federal worker unions seek flexibility on furloughs
Posted by admin on March 2nd, 2013
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Labor unions are bargaining with federal government agencies in an attempt to soften the financial blow on federal employees as $ 85 billion in spending cuts kick in. Hundreds of thousands of federal workers may be forced to take several unpaid days off work, after Congress and President Barack Obama reached Friday’s [...]
THE RESET: Obama has ‘more flexibility’ now to act
Posted by admin on January 11th, 2013
Mitt Romney was going to "Etch A Sketch" his way to the White House. We saw how that worked out. Tweet This Post
Dems signal Obama flexibility on spending in talks
Posted by admin on December 17th, 2012
Republican House Speaker John Boehner is offering to let taxes rise on wealthy Americans' investment income and dividends as part of a deal to avert the "fiscal cliff," officials said Monday amid signs that President Barack Obama is ready to make a key concession of his own in urgent, high-level negotiations. Tweet This Post
Paid leave and workplace flexibility lacking for many U.S. workers, but Latinos most of all
Posted by admin on November 24th, 2012
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Posted in Breaking News Tags: Flexibility, Lacking, Latinos, Leave, many, Most, paid, U.S., Workers, workplace No Comments »Paid leave and workplace flexibility lacking for many U.S. workers, but Latinos most of all
Posted by admin on November 24th, 2012
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Posted in Breaking News Tags: Flexibility, Lacking, Latinos, Leave, many, Most, paid, U.S., Workers, workplace No Comments »State flexibility on welfare: One more thing Republicans wanted under Bush, hate under Obama
Posted by admin on July 20th, 2012
Republicans are continuing their giant hissy fit over the Obama administration’s states’ rights move on welfare-to-work. If you’re confused, thinking “but don’t Republicans always want states to get to do whatever they want, no matter how despicable,” remember that more than anything, Republicans want to attack President Obama. Tweet This Post
Posted in Breaking News Tags: Bush, Flexibility, hate, more, Obama, Republicans, state, Thing, Under, Wanted', Welfare No Comments »Biden says end to wars gives US new flexibility
Posted by admin on May 26th, 2012
Vice President Joe Biden said Saturday that the United States can now focus on new global challenges after a long decade of war in an election-year commencement address to jubilant graduates of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Tweet This Post
President Obama explains ‘flexibility’ comment … and gets a helpful assist from Mitt Romney
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