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House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-MD) insists Democrats will not negotiate over increasing the debt limit. He spoke with Peter Cook on Sunday’s Bloomberg Government’s “Capitol Gains.” “The Republican strategy of pretending that they’re going to take hostage the debt …

The second annual BGOV200 Federal Industry Leaders Study ranks the top 200 federal vendors by value of prime, unclassified contracts awarded by U.S. agencies in fiscal 2012. It ranks the top contractors at 24 agencies and departments, and in 20 …

By Robert Litan Lost in the kerfuffle over the infamous spreadsheet error in the statistical work of economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff (RR) showing that growth slows once a nation’s debt-to-GDP ratio tops 90 percent is another of their …

In an extra clip from last Sunday’s Capitol Gains, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden explains to Peter Cook how his agency is exploring plans to capture an asteroid that prevents a collision with earth. Follow Bloomberg Government on Twitter @BGOV

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, in an exclusive interview on Bloomberg Government’s “Capitol Gains”, warns sequestration would “devastate” American space programs. Bolden says NASA’s plan to ferry astronauts to the international space station aboard commercial spacecraft by 2017 would be in …

By Robert Litan With the employment report today beating expectations – at 165,000 new jobs, above the widely expected 140,000 gain – the U.S. economy continues to chug along at a steady, though unexciting pace. The unemployment rate ticked down …

By Nela Richardson Much of the discussion surrounding Representative Mel Watt’s nomination to be director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency focuses on policy differences between Watt and his soon-to-be predecessor, Ed Demarco. Mr. DeMarco endeared himself to Republicans by …

By Allan Holmes and Sanford Reback U.S. Internet companies are engaged in a two-front effort to defend the $100 billion they earn from online advertising. Companies such as Google and Facebook have been fighting proposed European Union privacy laws they …

As Members of Congress weigh in on the Senate’s Gang of Eight immigration bill, Peter Cook talks with a critical player in the debate. Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley, the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, could help determine whether …

By Matthew Hummer | April 24, 2013 04:17PM ET The Federal Aviation Administration has more than enough air traffic controllers to manage furloughs without flight delays, according to a Bloomberg Government analysis of the agency’s staffing data. The FAA, with …