4/8/11 - Down to the Wire Friday Stuff

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Administration backs retroactive pay for feds in event of shutdown (I want your vote in 2012)

The ultimate decision to compensate employees is up to Congress.
http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?a ... dcn=e_gvet

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Four budget developments you need to know (Very Interesting)

Some of the key differences between the parties involved in discussions.
http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?a ... dcn=e_gvet

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Budget Hawks May Not Turn A Blind Eye To Pentagon

Despite a near-consensus on Capitol Hill on the need to cut spending, about a fifth of the federal budget has been placed entirely off limits: the Defense Department, which is so awash in cash that even its auditors have a tough time telling where all the money is going.
http://ebird.osd.mil/ebfiles/e20110407813418.html

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Pocket Change

A rundown on the (limited) changes in the retirement benefits world this year.
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0411/040811rp.htm

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Shutdown Would Spare Childcare, DoD Schools

A Pentagon spokesman said today that childcare has been designated "exempt" from activities adversely affected if Congress does not pass a budget tomorrow. In addition, Col. David Lapan said, inpatient and essential outpatient health care at DoD medical facilities will go on, along with emergency dental care.
http://www.military.com/news/article/sh ... hools.html

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Will commissaries stay open during a government shutdown

Failing a budget agreement or a continuing Fiscal 2011 resolution, all Defense Commissary Agency outlets will be closed Saturday morning, DECA spokeswoman Leslie Brown said Thursday.
http://www.stripes.com/blogs/stripes-ce ... -1.140322#

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A look at what services would be halted or disrupted under a partial government shutdown

You'd still get your mail - and your usual Social Security payment. But troops' pay might be delayed, and you'd have to put off that spring break trip to a national park. Here's how government services would or wouldn't be affected if there's a partial shutdown Friday at midnight:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/ ... ltoafriend

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Government shutdown looks different to workers who toil in Capitol's basement

It is a place of discarded desk chairs, lost tourists and workers with their names stitched on their shirts. This is a different U.S. Capitol- two levels below the one they show on C-SPAN - where people chop onions, haul furniture and cut hair.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ ... ltoafriend

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Furloughed feds cannot telework or use BlackBerrys

For congressional employees, a government shutdown will mean an information blackout as well.
http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20110 ... ne=NGtoday

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Union: Employees work without pay, or risk jobs

Pressure on excepted personnel to work without guarantee of pay violates Anti-Deficiency Act, labor leader says.
http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?a ... dcn=e_gvet

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Military and essential civilians would be paid after shutdown

Defense contractors would be paid out of funds already obligated, Pentagon officials say.
http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?a ... dcn=e_gvet

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