Lobbyists pound the pavement ahead of two big deadlines.

After problems with the Coast Guard's massive Deepwater acquisition program, the federal government has moved away from hiring outside systems integrators, opting to coordinate big projects in-house.

Does Silicon Valley have, in the words of a New York Magazine writer, a "dysfunction fetish"?

A lackluster jobs report has many economists worried about a slowing economy, especially since the partial government shutdown.

Delayed figures on unemployment are expected to hold steady.

John Carney and Nela Richardson join the show to wrap up a tumultuous week in Washington.

More than 20 Senators and seven Representatives have begun work on a compromise budget that liberals and conservatives can live with, before new sequester cuts hit in January. A supercommittee was what created the sequester impasse in the first place, what will be different this time around?

The business community helped elect some Tea Party Republicans to Congress -- and they weren't happy with the shutdown and debt ceiling fight.

What the city sounds like with its workers back to work.