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NewsA-76 set for possible DoD revival
Amendments to a $649 billion defense appropriations bill approved by the House of Representatives July 8 would make it easier for the Defense Department to hold public-private competitions for Read more...
House Appropriations reduces VA fiscal 2012 IT budget
Veterans Affairs Department spending on information technology would have to go down slightly next fiscal year if the House Appropriations Committee gets its way. The committee voted May 31 to send Read more...
House debates DHS fiscal 2012 appropriations; IT programs cut
The Homeland Security Department's appropriations for the coming fiscal year could be reduced--in many cases significantly--under the House Appropriations Committee's markup of the department's Read more...
HASC defense authorization bill on House floor
Defense spending would be authorized slightly more under a House Armed Services Committee-approved markup than the Obama administration had requested for next year's federal fiscal budget. The bill Read more...
House.gov goes open source with Drupal
The House of Representatives is the latest governmental organization to choose Drupal as its web content management system. The open source platform already famously powers the back-end of Read more...
Telework Improvement Act goes to Obama
The Telework Improvement Act (H.R. 1722) is now set to become law, following a Nov. 18 vote by the House of Representatives to approve the bill after the Senate passed it by unanimous consent earlier Read more...
Cybersecurity R&D bill gets traction
There has been a great deal of talk about the grave cybersecurity threat facing the government and the nation, but there has been little attention from Congress, considering it has been tied up with Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Quarterly House expense reports go online
The House of Representatives is taking transparency as seriously as President Obama. For the first time, it has posted quarterly expense reports for House offices on the Internet. Previously, the Read more...
House of Representatives unplugs its last mainframe
It was the end of an era for mainframe at the House of Representatives and the beginning of a greener one. The last mainframe in the House was just unplugged after spending 12 years keeping the Read more...
Hackers target House.gov
No part of the federal government is safe from cyber attacks, and that includes the Congress. Last week, hackers broke into the websites of more than a dozen members of the House of Representatives, Read more...
| Press ReleasesBusiness Roundtable Endorses Bipartisan “Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act” – Praises Swift Committee ActionWASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Business Roundtable endorsed the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2011 (H.R. 3523), as introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives by Intelligence Read more >> CompTIA Applauds House Repeal of 3% Withholding Requirement, Urges President to Sign into LawWASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- CompTIA President and Chief Executive Officer Todd Thibodeaux issued the following statement regarding the unanimous vote by the House of Representatives to repeal a Read more >> Statement by AICPA Tax Vice President Edward Karl Applauds Congress’ Vote to Repeal 3 Percent Withholding RequirementWASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The following is a statement by Edward Karl, vice president of taxation for the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. “The AICPA commends Congress for Read more >> TechServe Alliance Applauds Reauthorization of America COMPETES ActALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 21, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today the House of Representatives passed the final version of the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010, which was earlier passed by Read more >> Taxpayers Against Earmarks, WashingtonWatch.com & Taxpayers for Common Sense Launch Comprehensive Earmark Request DatabaseWASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Three leading government transparency advocacy groups – Taxpayers Against Earmarks, WashingtonWatch.com and Taxpayers for Common Sense – today launched the first Read more >> |
