<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Federal Page</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/fedpage?nav=rss_politics/fedpage</link><description>Federal Page</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[FBI to Fire Dissident  Agent]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10381-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10381-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:20:28 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  The FBI has moved to fire a veteran agent who  alleged that the bureau had mishandled domestic investigations of the Islamic Resistance Movement, also known as Hamas, the Palestinian group designated a terrorist organization by the U.S. government.]]></description><author> John Mintz</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chao Aiming to Lead the Second-Tier Pack]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7682-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7682-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:20:28 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  For many years  --  and especially since President Ronald Reagan famously called his secretary of housing and urban development "Mr. Mayor"  --  Cabinet members in the "lower tier" have often fretted about getting the attention they deserve.]]></description><author> Al Kamen</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Audit Urges End of IRS's  Employee Tuition Plan]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7681-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7681-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:20:28 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The Internal Revenue Service's employee tuition assistance program has spent more than 60 percent of its funds  --  or $4.4 million in two years  --  on administrative costs, employing the equivalent of 30 full-time workers while turning away hundreds of employees for lack of funds, an inspector general audit has found.]]></description><author> Jonathan Weisman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rising Medical Costs Worry Pentagon, Hill]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7683-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7683-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:20:28 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Confronting medical costs that have doubled in four years, military officials and congressional leaders said yesterday that the Pentagon needs to rethink the generous coverage it provides or risk making sacrifices in other areas of the Defense Department budget.]]></description><author> Ceci Connolly</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[NEA, States Challenge 'No Child' Program]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4741-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4741-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:20:28 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The nation's largest teacher's union  joins school districts in Michigan, Texas, and Vermont in filing a federal lawsuit charging that the Department of Education has failed to provide adequate funding for the No Child Left Behind initiative.]]></description><author> Michael Dobbs</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Complexity of Taiwan's Ties With Lobbyists]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6120-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6120-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:20:28 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Taiwan's relationships with its Washington lobbyists are sometimes as complicated and tortuous as its relationship with the U.S. government.]]></description><author> Judy Sarasohn</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Second in Command at Justice to Depart]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6119-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6119-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:20:28 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Deputy Attorney General James B. Comey, a veteran of terrorism and organized crime prosecutions, will leave his post this fall.]]></description><author> Dan Eggen</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Muslims Detained at Border Sue U.S. Homeland Security]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6225-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6225-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:20:28 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[American Muslims detained at the border as they returned from a religious conference in Toronto sued the Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday  alleging they were targets of ethnic and religious profiling.]]></description><author> Michelle Garcia</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Report Criticizes OMB Oversight of IT Projects]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6274-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6274-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:20:28 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The Office of Management and Budget has not done enough to oversee $22 billion worth of critical federal information technology projects that it previously flagged as deficient, according to a government report set for release today.]]></description><author> Griff Witte</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fannie Mae Apologizes for Accounting Failures]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6306-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6306-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:20:28 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Fannie Mae interim chief executive Daniel H. Mudd apologized to Congress yesterday for the company's massive accounting failures, as key government officials prepared to press their case today for stricter regulation of the company and its smaller rival, Freddie Mac.]]></description><author> Annys Shin and Kathleen Day</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[GOP Spars Over Drug Import Bill]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2434-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2434-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:20:28 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Party divisions over whether to allow Americans to import lower-priced  medications from such countries  as Canada exploded in an unusually public and personal exchange between two New England lawmakers.]]></description><author> Ceci Connolly</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Global Health Corps Proposed to Fight AIDS]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2446-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2446-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:20:28 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The federal government should create a corps of AIDS specialists and deploy them in the hard-hit countries targeted by the Bush administration's five-year, $15-billion global AIDS program, according to a panel of experts.]]></description><author> David Brown</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Merger Critics Seek Telecom Regulation]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2400-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2400-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:20:28 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The proposed acquisitions of AT&T Corp. by SBC Communications Inc. and MCI Inc. by Verizon Communications Inc. raise questions about how smaller players will be able to compete, critics told the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on antitrust, competition policy and consumer rights.<FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-The Washington Post</ B></FONT></b>]]></description><author> Yuki Noguchi</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Probe Faults TSA Spending]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2399-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2399-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:20:28 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Transportation Security Administration has failed to stop excessive spending, raising concerns of "unethical and possibly illegal activities" by employees, according to a government report.]]></description><author> Sara Kehaulani Goo</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zoellick Keeps His Head]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2433-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2433-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:20:28 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Deputy Secretary of State    Robert B. Zoellick  went to Khartoum last week to prod the Sudanese government to stop the genocide in Darfur. But a top Sudanese government official apparently had his own diplomatic message about westerners getting mixed up in Sudan's affairs.]]></description><author> Al Kamen</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defects in 2004 Balloting Described for Panel]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64518-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64518-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:20:28 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The first hearing of the Commission on Federal Election Reform held Monday made it clear that the 2004 election was not without problems.]]></description><author> Brian Faler</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Annual Terror Report Won't Include Numbers]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63182-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63182-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:20:28 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The State Department announced that it will no longer publish statistics for international terrorism, a year after it was forced to correct its assertion that terrorist acts had declined in 2003 when in fact they were at their highest level in years.]]></description><author> Susan B. Glasser</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disparities Cited for Medicare Drug Benefit]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64015-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64015-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:20:28 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The prescription drug benefit available next year will cost senior citizens an average of $722 annually, but retirees with chronic conditions such as diabetes and heart disease can expect to pay about double that amount and face gaps in their coverage, a new study finds.]]></description><author> Ceci Connolly</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[NASA Chief Considers Shuttle Launch]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64109-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64109-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:20:28 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[NASA Administrator Michael D. Griffin says the space shuttle may be launched even if it is not in full compliance with safety recommendations made in the aftermath of the Columbia disaster.]]></description><author> Guy Gugliotta</author></item></channel></rss>
