Bigger Budget? No, Responds Safety Agency
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The top consumer product safety official asked Congress to reject legislation that would strengthen the agency.
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The Bush administration wants to overhaul the troubled agency in charge of security at most federal buildings, cutting personnel and giving a bigger role to local police. Lawmakers are fighting the plan, saying that it could leave government employees more vulnerable to crime or attacks by...
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The Food and Drug Administration is giving workers more than $8 million in bonuses to keep them from defecting to pharmaceutical and other regulated industries, at the same time the agency is being pressed to spend more on food and drug safety.
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A safety precaution put in place for a thrill ride after a fatal accident three years ago wasn't being followed when a worker was killed on the same ride, an amusement park official acknowledged Saturday.
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OTTAWA - The troubled federal gun registry could face further cuts under the government&#39;s $12 billion expenditure review exercise this autumn.
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Business & money: Regulator warns government might need to pump more money into network or axe projects
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Corporate customers are still tight-fisted with their budgets as they put off needed upgrades, analysts say.
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Safety guidelines criticised by investigation into crash that nearly killed presenter.
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Over objections from the Bush administration, a Senate committee adopted legislation to extend the authority of the Consumer Product Safety Commission and increase its budget.
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The company tightens its forecast on cost concerns.
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The MoD is criticised over spending costs which  soared by Â£1.7bn over the past year, amid growing project delays.
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The third fatal accident involving a Metro worker and one of its trains in a little more than a year brought an unusually harsh rebuke yesterday from federal transportation officials, who called the transit agency's performance "unacceptable."
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The government may be spending too much time and money seizing knives and other potentially dangerous items from airline passengers and too little on preventing terrorist attacks against other forms of transportation, lawmakers said Tuesday.
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Those fuel-economy estimates posted on new cars and trucks are baloney. The government agency in charge of them doesn&#39;t mean them to be; in fact, the US Environmental Protection Agency seems unusually scrupulous about its ...
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The big bucks companies are spending on security often don't cover the biggest threat, survey finds.
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A Federal Aviation Administration contracting program, initially hailed as a way to make the agency more efficient, was so poorly managed that it cost the government millions of dollars in overruns, according to a government investigative report and legislators who reviewed its conclusions. The FAA...
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By Julie Sevrens Lyons, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Feb. 6--After years of job cuts and budget woes at NASA/Ames Research Center in Mountain View, center officials weren't exactly doing a jig Monday after President Bush released his proposed 2008 budget for the space agency.