Hot on the heels of the recent revelation that 450,000 federal employees owe a total of $3 billion in back taxes, comes word from the Justice Department that a former ... Read More

More than 450,000 federal employees and retirees owe a total of $3 billion in back taxes, according to Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Ranking Republican Chuck Grassley ... Read More

Update: By vote of 51-46, the U.S. Senate has added its approval to the bill H.R. 1591, including a provision setting a non-binding date of March 31, 2008 for the ... Read More

As one of the oldest federal benefits programs, the modern Food Stamp Program marks its 30th anniversary in 2007. To highlight the occasion, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities ... Read More

Carefully never calling it "global warming," the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has warned that rising earth temperatures over the coming decades will expose federal and private insurers to greatly increased ... Read More

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has given its approval for the construction of the Rockies Express-West interstate gas pipeline, designed to help meet the growing demand for natural gas ... Read More

Thousands of private contractors doing business with the federal government have piled up "substantial amounts" of unpaid federal taxes, according to past investigations by the Government Accountability Office (GAO). Specifically, ... Read More

The U.S. Department of Labor has proposed updated regulations designed to improve the safety of the nation’s teenage workers. The proposed updates to regulations under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) ... Read More

The U.S. Army has announced it will begin reducing spending in many of its non-war related functions in order to continue fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and providing uninterrupted ... Read More

In a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court has upheld the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, signed into law by President Bush in 2003, but never enforced due to numerous legal ... Read More

The U.S. Mint yesterday took action to limit the exportation, melting, or alteration of pennies and nickels in order to prevent a shortage of the coins in circulation. With the ... Read More

President Bush today ordered all U.S. flags to be flown at half-staff in memory of the victims of the shootings at Virginia Tech on April 16. "Our Nation grieves with those ... Read More

Bankruptcy filings in federal courts have dropped by 70 percent since the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 (BAPCPA) went into effect, according to the Office of ... Read More

In 2003, the GAO reported to Congress that working women in the U.S. made an average of 80 cents for every dollar earned by their male counterparts, a pay gap ... Read More

Forget about women in government. Consider a newly-create town in China where women are the government and the slogan, "A woman never makes a mistake. A man can never reject ... Read More

The Senate yesterday passed two more stem cell research enhancement bills, one President Bush has vowed to veto, the other he has vowed to sign. The bill Bush will veto: Passing ... Read More

On April 3, 2007, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) reported that it is holding $133 million in unclaimed pension benefits for 32,000 people owed money from terminated defined benefit ... Read More

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has started an all-out search for living veterans of World War I. The VA is currently aware of only four surviving WWI veterans, and ... Read More

New Mexico governor and 2008 Democratic presidential candidate Bill Richardson has signed a bill making New Mexico the twelfth U.S. state to legalize the use of marijuana for medical purposes. ... Read More

An incumbent Missouri City, Kansas alderman has failed to win outright reelection by just one vote -- his own. The alderman, according to the Kansas City Star, simply forgot to ... Read More

A Missouri state legislator has introduced a bill that would require shoppers in the "Show Me" state to show somebody their photo-ID when buying baking soda. Yes, plain old baking ... Read More

You may read accusations that Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi violated a federal law known as the Logan Act when she traveled to Damascus to discuss Middle East diplomacy ... Read More

An estimated 899,000 children in the 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico were victims of abuse or neglect during 2005, according to a massive new report from ... Read More

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has announced it will test a device that "passively" screens passengers for explosives. The device, employing millimeter wave technology, will be tested on passengers boarding ... Read More

Just in case you needed another reason the hate the federal Real ID Act, besides its cost, potential invasion of privacy and monumental inconvenience, some evangelical Christians are sure the ... Read More

For reasons yet unknown, the U.S. honeybee population is experiencing its most serious decline in history. First reported by beekeepers along the East Coast in late 2006, the phenomenon now ... Read More

In a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court today ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) does have the authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles. The decision is ... Read More

An Iowa man who flew a U.S. flag upside down as a form of protest set off a dispute that has now resulted in two state laws being declared unconstitutional. ... Read More

Conservation groups have asked a state judge to halt the Alaska Fish and Game Commission's program offering aerial gunners and pilots an "incentive" of $150 each for the left forelegs ... Read More