Federal workers lead the fight against DOMA
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COLUMN | Federal employees are the vanguard in the fight against an unjust federal law that legalizes discrimination against gays and lesbians. Their latest victory against DOMA came Thursday in Boston with a ruling by a First Circuit appeals court.
‘Virtual’ employees at GSA spent $750,000 on travel over nine months
Charges prompt concern in Congress.
Appeals court strikes down DOMA in federal employee case
A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that a law denying employment benefits to the same-sex spouse of a federal employee is unconstitutional.
House approves 2 military personnel bills
The two laws would change provisions for military re-employment at TSA and how family law courts determine child custody.
Fed workers: How much overtime do you work?
Do you step away from your work outside the 9-5, or do you find yourself staying as long as it takes to get the job done?
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Federal workers lead the fight against DOMA
COLUMN | Federal employees are the vanguard in the fight against an unjust federal law that legalizes discrimination against gays and lesbians. Their latest victory against DOMA came Thursday in Boston with a ruling by a First Circuit appeals court.
Appeals court strikes down DOMA in federal employee case
A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that a law denying employment benefits to the same-sex spouse of a federal employee is unconstitutional.
Resolution praising feds has bleak future
FEDERAL DIARY | A House resolution would praise federal employees and oppose several proposals affecting them.
In the Loop
In the Loop: Pot, kettle
In the Loop’s roundup: Jay Carney’s ‘sloth’ accusation comes back to haunt him; the GSA conference planner makes an exit; why Secret Service workers won’t speak up.
Background Check: Richard Cordray
In the Loop’s new feature debuts with a conversation with Richard Cordray, who’s President Obama’s consumer czar (and does not play Kenneth on “30 Rock”).
Chamber of Commerce plans to evade disclosure ruling by tweaking ads
Its political ads will specifically support or oppose candidates as a way to avoid disclosing its donors.
Experts give odds to Edwards on appeal
Legal experts contend that questions about murky campaign finance laws could offer John Edwards a good chance of winning an appeal if he is convicted.
The Influence Industry: Georgian power struggle becomes D.C. lobbying battle
A Georgian billionaire brings his political campaign to Washington, hiring a half-dozen major lobbying firms ahead of parliamentary elections in October.
Congress favors status quo in funding itself
IN SESSION | The Capitol Police and auditors at the GAO would fare well under the House funding bill, while a project to restore the Capitol Dome would take a hit.
No slogan necessary?
The last three minority parties to seize control of the House had platforms to rally around and an opposing-party president in the White House.
Where will Romney find his vice president? Probably on the Hill
Members of Congress have a hard time being elected president, but the No. 2 job tends to come more easily.
Justices pressured to revisit Citizens United
HIGH COURT | In upholding a 100-year-old state law, the Montana justices seemed to be openly defying Citizens United’s holding that the First Amendment grants corporations, and by extension labor unions, the right to spend unlimited amounts of their treasuries to support or oppose candidates.
Maryland, Virginia and the court that divides them
Maryland’s Democratic attorney general and Virginia’s Republican are at times on opposite sides at the Supreme Court.
Divining Congress’s intent
In its efforts to determine Congress’s intent when it passed a piece of legislation, the Supreme Court may turn to the legislative history of an act, but only with trepidation.
Time for military action in Syria?
Fine Print columnist Walter Pincus takes on those who are calling for more U.S. intervention in Syria.
Treaty on the seas is in rough Senate waters
The Law of the Sea Convention is having difficulty getting ratified.
Nuclear weapons just don’t make sense
Nuclear weapons are terror weapons, and basically unusable.That’s one reason why no rational strategy has ever been developed to justify them. Events in the past 10 days make my case.
The Federal Buzz
Fed workers: How much overtime do you work?
Do you step away from your work outside the 9-5, or do you find yourself staying as long as it takes to get the job done?
The fragile health of government HR
The federal government’s human resources community is like the proverbial shoemaker’s children.
Federal Player
Recruiting veterans for government service
Joseph Kennedy, a principal deputy associate director of the Office of Personnel Management , and his team took the lead in implementing a presidential order to recruit and hire qualified veterans.
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