They know they face a further storm in October when more detail will be provided on savings, government department by government department, as a result of the comprehensive spending review.
The lawyer's argument is that the officer is a former military judge and now works for the civilian government as a prosecutor for the Department of Justice, which has its own case against Pte Manning.
Do you feel that you have the ability if you choose to be critical of the U.S. government as you're going on a State Department tour?
As for credit-card costs to the government, a Treasury Department agency handles all government credit-card transactions and negotiates costs.
Other parts of state government, such as the Department of Motor Vehicles, a bugbear for Californians queuing to renew their licences, are tiny, with 2% of state employees.
The National Security Agency has always had two sides to its personality: a national enterprise that meets the needs of policymakers across the U.S. government and one that serves as a combat support agency for the Department of Defense of which it remains a part.
The Pentagon has tried to nominate James Woolsey, a former head of the CIA, as a key player in the interim government, but some at the State Department are said to be appalled at the notion of putting a former spymaster in a foreign government.
He was giving evidence on 6 December 2010 as part of a session on a revision to the Department for Communities and Local Government's code of practice on local authority publicity.
State Department officials believe the Cuban government instituted the high fees as a revenue source, because they are almost always paid by Cuban American-families in the United States who are eager to bring their relatives over.
In the 1980s, as the government squeezed university budgets, this relatively well-resourced department, plus a big nearby teaching hospital where drug trials can be done, attracted more scientists.
The cuts are being considered as a result of the government's Comprehensive Spending Review which fixed spending budgets for each government department up to 2014-15.
But a former spokesman for the Department of Justice who worked as an aide to Holder defended the government's actions.
To laughter, Mr McFadden replied: "Comrade Digby, as we call him in the department" would be a very vocal and effective voice in the government.
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Since September Lord Marland has been an unpaid junior minister in the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills - acting as the government's business spokesman in the House of Lords - having previously held a similar role in the Department for Energy and Climate Change.
The role as head of the civil service will be hived off, after a competition, to a top mandarin running a government department.
Under heavy pressure from unions to rule as it did, the administration made its decision following a Labor Department assessment that public sector work, from cleaning streets to processing government forms, qualified as work under the Fair Labor Standards Act.
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