Like death and taxes, the federal government is one of those things that’s always certain to be humming along in the background, right?!  If the D.C. powers that be don’t pass a spending bill by March 4, that humming will…

Food, glorious food! How can something so vital be such a problem? When it involves grant dollars, that’s when.

Hang onto your hats, folks. It could be a rough ride over the next couple of weeks as Republicans and Democrats duke it out over spending priorities in the waning days of the continuing resolution that expires on March 4…

Technical difficulties, anyone?  We’ve heard from a number of you that the “register to comment” feature is a bit confusing.  We’ve passed the feedback on to our tech team, and we hope to have a more straightforward process soon. We…

Today, after days of Republican and Democratic sparring over spending priorities, the House slogged its way into day three working through nearly 600 proposed amendments to HR 1, the continuing resolution that would provide funding for the remainder of fiscal…

Amidst the frenzy on the expiring continuing resolution, the president’s FY 2012 budget request and the fever pitch of one-cuts-manship that D.C. is mainlining while grant recipients around the country can only watch, wonder and worry, a milestone passed yesterday…

Heard of the old “department of redundancy department”? Stay tuned for a huge Government Accountability Office report slated next month on federal government duplication.

(This post was written by Jon Desenberg, policy director at The Performance Institute, which is a subsidiary of Thompson Media Group.  PI is a nonpartisan, private think tank seeking to improve government performance through the principles of transparency, accountability, performance…

Look at this window. Does it look weatherized to you? Me neither.

(This post was written by guest blogger Andrew Brownstein, one of Thompson’s federal education policy editors.) As expected, the silver lining in the spare Obama budget plan released Monday appeared for education. While most federal programs would be slashed under…