National Aeronautics and Space Administration

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  Entitlement growth a boon to seniors

  By Charles Babington  |  May 13, 2013

  With Congress increasingly unable to resolve budget disputes, federal programs on automatic pilot are consuming ever larger amounts of government resources.

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  GOP seeks to smooth roughest cuts, avert shutdown

  By Andrew Taylor, Associated Press  |  March 5, 2013

  Republicans controlling the House are moving to take the roughest edges off across-the-board spending cuts that are just starting to take effect.

• Republicans unveil government funding measure

  By Andrew Taylor, Associated Press  |  March 4, 2013

  Republicans controlling the House moved Monday to give the Pentagon more money for military readiness while easing the pain felt by such agencies as the FBI and the Border Patrol from the across-the-board spending cuts that are just starting to take effect.

• Senate Dems, GOP plan votes on rival cuts

  By Andrew Taylor  |  February 28, 2013

  Across-the-board spending cuts all but certain, Republicans and Democrats in the Senate are staging a politically charged showdown designed to avoid public blame for any resulting inconvenience or disruption in government services.

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  House votes to extend pay freeze for fed workers

  By Jim Abrams  |  February 15, 2013

  The House voted Friday to extend a pay freeze for federal workers, already in effect for more than two years, for another nine months.

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  Budget cuts blowback

  By Alan Fram  |  February 15, 2013

  What does smaller government look like? The budget standoff between President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans means Americans may soon find out, and the picture the Obama administration sketches is downright scary.

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  Health fund in Ohio set up in Armstrong’s memory

  By Dan Sewell  |  August 31, 2012

  Two fellow lunar pioneers helped launch a children's health fund Friday in memory of Neil Armstrong, whom they praised as an inspirational team player, a humble hero.

• Fact check: Convention speakers stray from reality

  By ANDREW TAYLOR and RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR,Associated Press  |  August 29, 2012

  A look at claims made during the Republican Convention and how they adhere to the facts.

• DOL provides grant increment for NASA workers

  By Amanda McGrory-Dixon  |  May 21, 2012

  The U.S. Department of Labor is releasing a $7.2 million National Emergency Grant increment to continue providing re-employment assistance to about 3,200 Florida workers who were impacted by layoffs after the termination of NASA's Space Shuttle Program.

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  GOP plan boosts Pentagon, cuts social programs

  By Andrew Taylor, Associated Press  |  May 7, 2012

  The Republicans who control the House are using cuts to food aid, health care and social services like Meals on Wheels to protect the Pentagon from a crippling wave of budget cuts come January.