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Lobbying Congress is permitted. And high on the perennial list of union legislative priorities is killing any bill that would limit official time.

Too Big To Manage: Public pays for government unions to lobby for more federal spending

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Air traffic controllers, nurses, lawyers and others employed by the government spend thousands of hours each year doing union business on official time. (Illustration by Karen Lomax/Examiner)

708 federal workers spent more time on union work than their government jobs in 2012

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Air traffic controllers, nurses, lawyers and others employed by the government spend thousands of hours each year doing union business on official time. (Illustration by Karen Lomax/Examiner)

Too Big to Manage: Taxpayers fund top-dollar federal employee union reps through official time

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Michael Horowitz, the Justice Department's inspector general, arrives to testify before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee after faulting the department for disregard of public safety in Operation Fast and Furious in this Sept. 20, 2012, file photo. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Agency stonewalling blocks timely, complete watchdog investigations, IGs tell Congress

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A veteran who challenges an initial rating faces an average of more than three additional years to get a verdict from the Board of Veterans Appeals, according to agency reports.

Claims errors, long appeals still haunt disabled veterans

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A report from Judicial Watch claims the FBI missed missed warning signs and failed to prevent a series of terrorist attacks, including the bombing at the Boston Marathon earlier this year and the Fort Hood massacre in 2009. (AP File)
National Security

Judicial Watch says FBI’s excessive concern about Muslim sensibilities endangers Americans

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Patients at Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals are not being adequately protected from doctors who have histories of providing substandard treatment, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office. (AP Photo)
Healthcare

Slow and sloppy review procedures endanger patients at Veterans Affairs hospitals, GAO finds

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Doctors at the Department of Veterans Affairs hospital in San Francisco routinely renewed prescriptions for narcotic painkillers for patients they had never seen, according to a report from the agency's inspector general. (Photo: Thinkstock)
Healthcare

Veterans Affairs doctors prescribed drugs for patients they’d never seen, IG finds

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A photo of President Obama in a turban was among documents purged from FBI counter-terrorism training materials.(AP Image)
National Security

Obama, Eric Holder, cartoons and Lady Gaga are among the ‘inappropriate’ images purged from FBI counter-terror training

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Darrell Issa-Tammy Duckworth bill would close ‘loophole’ in bidding preference for disabled veterans

Darrell Issa-Tammy Duckworth bill would close ‘loophole’ in bidding preference for disabled veterans

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