October 14, 2011 – 7:00 am
The Senate failed to pass President Obama’s jobs bill this week, despite a high level of pressure from the administration and a great deal of public scrutiny focused on the current employment picture and broad economic realities the country faces….
(This post is excerpted from an article in the July 25 issue of Local/State Funding Report.) The Obama administration announced a new pilot program on July 11 to help local communities do more with the federal resources they receive. According…
Today was the big day. President Obama met again with Congressional leaders to try and wind down debt talks as the Treasury Department’s Aug. 2 deadline approaches. Hanging in the balance are millions of grant dollars that could be impacted…
Amid all the pro-transparency, pro-accountability, anti-waste hoopla that has dominated the headlines (and our blog) concerning Rep. Daniel Issa’s (R-Calif.) Digital Accountability and Transparency Act (DATA Act) bill and President Obama’s Campaign to Cut Waste initiative, the real white elephant…
By Jerry Ashworth
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Posted in Compliance/Reporting, Congress, Grants Management, Improper Payments, Legislation, Monitoring/Subrecipients/Subawards, OMB Circulars and Regulations, Recovery Act/ARRA/Stimulus, State and Local Governments
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Also tagged American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Campaign to Cut Waste, compliance, DATA Act, FAST Board, Federal Accountability and Spending Transparency Board, Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act, Issa, reporting, states, waste
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