Today's Reading/Listening List

GovExec.com - Postmaster General to face Congress over compensation
The Postal Service, which is a semigovernment agency that has not received an operational subsidy from Congress since 1982, faces another massive deficit that Potter estimates will reach $6 billion in fiscal 2009.

This follows deficits of $2.8 billion in fiscal 2008 and $5.1 billion in fiscal 2007. The service last turned a profit of $900 million in fiscal 2006. Potter's $857,459 package in includes base compensation for fiscal 2008 listed at $263,575, according to Postal Regulatory Commission records with a $135,041 performance incentive bonus, deferred until he leaves office. His other compensation includes $77,347 in perks, including parking, life insurance premiums, airline clubs, spousal travel and security, plus his $381,496 pension.

Also deferred until he leaves office is accrued annual leave totaling more than $245,000, as of September 2008, which he will receive in a lump sum. He has been in office since June 2001.

GovExec.com - Budget resolution comes into focus

DC Examiner - Why can't we decline Medicare benefits?George Will - And So Begins Another Week Of Malfeasance

Newsbusters - CNN's 'Vast Grassroots Network' for Obama Not So Vast

Arnold King - A Metaphor: The Toxic NCAA Bracket

AP - Parrot awarded for yelling about choking baby

SearchEngineWatch.com - LinkedIn Enables RSS Feeds to Enhance Sharing in Groups
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I'm glad to hear Letterman finally got married. His son deserves it.

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