Legislation that has cleared a key House committee to cut federal jobs could have a substantially smaller impact than has been touted by both its sponsors and its critics, according to a congressional analysis. The Congressional Budget Office on Thursday released a cost estimate of a bill that last month passed the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee seeking to reduce the federal workforce by 10 percent mainly through attrition. The idea has been raised numerous times this year in spending reduction plans. Most recently, a bill offered Wednesday in the House proposed such job cuts as a way to avoid the reductions in spending in 2013 and later that are required because the congressional “supercommittee” failed to produce deficit-cutting recommendations. Read full article > >

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Job cut plan could have less impact than advertised, CBO finds

Room 2154 of the Rayburn House Office Building, the scene of many heated partisan arguments, was packed but solemn, as Robert Heyer spoke about his cousin, slain Border Patrol agent Brian A. Terry. Seated with Terry’s mother and sister, Heyer told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing about a federal law enforcement officer whose killing has been linked to a failed gun-trafficking operation by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. “It was just 10 days before Christmas last year when our family received the devastating news — Brian had been shot and killed while engaged in a firefight with a group of individuals seeking to do harm to Americans citizens and others . . .” Heyer said. Read full article > >

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Federal employees who are significantly behind on their federal taxes could be fired under legislation approved Wednesday by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

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The Republican takeover of the House of Representatives may not just be bad news for President Barack Obama. The attention-grabbing next chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, California Rep. Darrell Issa, said Wednesday that…

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