Yes, people, the House leadership failure also affects acquisition

The longer the House of Representatives remains in stasis, the closer the next budget deadline comes without any action to resolve it. There is lots at stake, including how the federal acquisition function will operate. Not that acquisition was getting any easier with so many new rules coming. For a look at the situation, the Federal Drive with Tom Temin talks with federal sales and marketing consultant Larry Allen. Interview Transcript:  Larry Allen Tom, here we are again. And with so many variables, it’s really difficult to predict what’s going to…

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Calls for a Cease-Fire—But Then What?

The protest began with a prayer. Several thousand Muslims knelt in rows before the Capitol building yesterday afternoon, their knees resting on the woven rugs they’d brought from home. Women here and men over there, with onlookers to the side. Seen from the Speaker’s Balcony, this ranked congregation would have looked like colorful stripes spanning the grassy width of the National Mall. “We are witnessing, before our eyes, the slaughter of thousands of people on our streets,” Omar Suleiman, the imam who led the prayer, had said beforehand. “We are…

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Capital Crime Wave Prompts DC Mayor’s Major Reversal on Police Restraints

Amid escalating crime in the nation’s capital, President Joe Biden went to bat for a “police reform” law passed by the D.C. Council by vetoing a bipartisan congressional measure that would have overturned it. Now, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser wants to roll back the same law that Biden protected.  The House Oversight and Accountability Committee, whose oversight includes the District of Columbia, held two hearings earlier this year on the D.C. crime problem.  “Unfortunately, President Biden refused to stand by the Metropolitan Police Department and allowed the D.C. Council’s anti-police…

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The Jordan Dozen: 12 Vulnerable House Republicans Greenlight MAGA Extremist Jim Jordan as Speaker

Washington, D.C. – Following the vote by a majority of Complicit Caucus members – 12 of the 18 House Republicans from swing districts Biden carried in 2020 – endorsing Representative Jim Jordan as speaker of the House, MoveOn Political Action Executive Director Rahna Epting released the following statement: “These swing district House Republicans are lining up behind a lawmaker who voted with the insurrectionists on January 6, ignored sexual assault allegations, cooked up a bogus impeachment scam, supports a national abortion ban, and hasn’t passed a single bill in 16…

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Senate bill would improve death benefits for civilian feds

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.) offered up a companion bill aiming to improve death benefits for civilian feds. The new legislation would offer 10 times the current benefit amounts for families of civilian workers who are killed on official duty. The bill would also offer more money to the families to cover funeral expenses. The goal of the bill is to bring benefits for civilian employees in line with what military members and Foreign Service employees already get. Sinema’s bill comes after the introduction of the bipartisan House version earlier this…

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