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The Securities and Exchange Commission named a top federal-government auditor Friday to the panel that regulates the accounting industry, in a move that investor advocates fear could set back attempts to impose tougher requirements on audit firms.

SEC Names Franzel to Audit Panel Michael Rapoport 2012

But the U.S. division of Siemens, a German engineering conglomerate, has made expanding its federal-government business a priority, with a goal to double its U.S. government revenue by 2015 from the $1 billion a year it typically generates from such work.

Boeing, Siemens Set Smart-Grid Alliance Vanessa Fuhrmans 2011

There Morgan, a Harvard-trained lawyer and tribal member, runs a range of enterprises, some of which include federal-government sole-source contracts for telecommunications projects, support services in Iraq and Afghanistan, construction, and more.

Stephanie Woodard: The New Indian Fighters: Lt. Col. McCaskill and Major WaPo Stephanie Woodard 2010

Many conservatives see the program as emblematic of what they say is federal-government overreach.

Thune Won't Seek Presidency Corey Boles 2011

Corporate Office Properties Trust , which owns buildings in the Washington area that cater to federal-government contractors, assured investors on a recent conference call that most of its tenants weren't at risk of seeing major cuts.

Government Cuts Clip Office Market Anton Troianovski 2011

But it's pretty funny to think of Jefferson as a patron saint of federal-government, welfare-state activism, and Jefferson's attitudes about democracy are notoriously slippery and problematic.

William Hogeland: Economic Conflicts of the Founding Era Dispel Tea Party Myths... and Liberal Ones, Too William Hogeland 2011

WASHINGTON—The last-minute deal that avoided a federal-government shutdown has left District of Columbia Democrats seething over White House concessions on the city's spending and policies.

D.C. Fumes Over Deal to Avoid Shutdown Sara Murray 2011

Thousands of U.S. mortgage lenders and brokers that aren't banks will soon undergo a first in-depth federal-government review of their books and records, now that the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is gearing up to dispatch examiners to supervise them.

CFPB Gears Up to Examine Mortgage Firms Maya Jackson Randall 2012

The District of Columbia notched the greatest increase over the 2007-2010 period, with an 8.1% jump in income, in large part because of federal-government employment.

Oil Patch Bucks Income Drop Brenda Cronin 2012

Mr. McConnell's plan, which would have paid for the tax break by cutting federal-government employee rolls, was rejected by the Senate, with 26 mostly conservative Republicans voting against him because they believed it was more important to cut the deficit than to extend a temporary tax break.

Payroll-Tax Rift Throws GOP a Curve Janet Hook 2011