A pay freeze for federal works is back on the table, and D.C.-area senators are urging the Office of Personnel Management to address a backlog of retirement benefits claims.
Activists in the District are calling for city leaders to use the $240 million surplus on programs for struggling members of the community instead of stashing it away in a rainy-day fund.
Not much has changed at the Occupy DC encampment in McPherson Square since the no-camping ban went into effect at noon Monday, with a federal judge ruling Tuesday that the NPS cannot seize tents unless violators are caught violating the rules.
New Hampshire is considering a resolution that lend the support of their state to the calls for D.C. statehood -- a message that is being spread up the coast by the Occupy hunger strikers.
Housing advocates took to the District again this week in the yearly trek to account for D.C.'s homeless population, which numbered more than 6,500 last year.