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Raising Record Funds to Give Sick Kids a Home

May 24, 2012 At a time when federal officials and contractors are getting a great deal of scrutiny over how much the government spends and how it spends it, it's important to note those times when the two sides come together to give something back in a big way. The Bethesda Chapter of ...

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$100 Million a Year to Dead Retirees?

May 23, 2012 You might think that Brandon Doherty, a GOP candidate for Congress in Rhode Island, was engaging in a bit of hyperbole when he claimed that the federal government had spent more than $600 million in the past five years in improper annuity payments to federal retirees who are not among ...

A Whole Different Kind of Platform

May 21, 2012 The future just ain't what it used to be. Kasia Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg, who curates the video channel at The Atlantic, notes that back in the '50s, the military services experimented with a whole variety of aviation technologies, including an incredibly cool flying platform. Check out the video:

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One Little Letter, a World of Difference

May 21, 2012 I would venture to guess that just about everyone in the business of writing and publishing information about government and public policy has at least come close to making this mistake: The program for the graduation ceremonies this weekend at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the ...

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On Not Noticing What Government Does Well

May 16, 2012 Marc Ambinder, an erstwhile colleague here at Atlantic Media (parent company of Government Executive), has a post on GQ.com reflecting on what he's learned in a decade of covering politics and policy in Washington. (He's off to Los Angeles.) One item on his list stuck out to me: I am ...

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Romney: Government Isn't the Hero

May 15, 2012 Mitt Romney stepped up his attacks on President Obama as leader of the federal government Tuesday, calling Obama an "old-school liberal " who sees "government as the hero." Romney said his policies, by contrast, were aimed at creating a "simpler, smaller, smarter" government. From Romney's remarks at an appearance in ...

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Happy 150th Birthday, USDA!

May 15, 2012 Abraham Lincoln had a lot on his plate 150 years ago -- the country was in the midst of the Civil War, after all. But he took the time to sign legislation to "acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture ...

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Obama Praises ‘Pride and Passion’ of Public Servants

May 11, 2012 You might have missed it, because he didn't exactly shout it from the rooftops, but President Obama issued a statement of support for federal employees (and their counterparts at the state and local levels) in connection with Public Service Recognition Week this week. Here's what he said: I send greetings ...

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Government Job Cuts in a Recession: 'Unprecedented'?

May 10, 2012 In a speech Tuesday at the State University of New York at Albany, President Obama said his efforts to put Americans back to work and end the recession have been hampered by the fact that governments at every level -- state, local and federal -- haven't been adding jobs. That, ...

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Gingrich Abandons Campaign, Not Moon Base Idea

May 2, 2012 Newt Gingrich officially left the presidential race Wednesday, but he didn't back down from his commitment to seeing a U.S. base on the moon someday. "I am cheerfully going to take back up the issue of space," Gingrich said in his announcement that he was suspending his campaign, the Atlantic ...