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The Postal Service is facing yet another challenge to plans for its next-generation vehicle fleet — this time from Congress.
May 11, 2022 -
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Congress says DoD's budget isn't big enough for price increases, however lawmakers hold the purse strings
May 10, 2022 -
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Could an overturn of Roe vs. Wade affect the federal workforce? WTOP Capitol Hill reporter Mitchell Miller explained on the Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
May 09, 2022 -
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In today's Federal Newscast, the House of Representatives is trying to recruit more diverse and high-quality candidates, and get them to stay there.
May 09, 2022 -
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The Biden administration's budget proposal for 2023 would give magnificent, double-digit increases to some large agencies, notably Veterans Affairs, Health and Human Services and Commerce. But can Congress deal with it in any meaningful way by Oct. 1?
May 05, 2022 -
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A newly formed Disinformation Governance Board remains shrouded in secrecy a week after the Biden administration’s announcement of the new effort was met with widespread criticism
May 05, 2022 -
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The Department of Veterans Affairs hired thousands of health care employees through a streamlined hiring process since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now it's calling on Congress to make some of these hiring flexibilities permanent.
May 04, 2022 -
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The IRS, in its request for information, is specifically looking for technology that “will perform a complete digital intake for all incoming mail,” including envelopes and their contents.
May 04, 2022 -
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The defense industrial base faces many challenges, like inflation and Ukraine, that need to be dealt with this fiscal year.
May 03, 2022 -
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Members of Congress know the budget process, their primary mission in life, is a mess. But some efforts are brewing that at least some members hope will get the 2023 budget process under control.
May 02, 2022 -
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In today's Federal Newscast, Members of Congress are pushing for a higher pay raise than the White House asked for in 2023.
April 29, 2022 -
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System outages and patient safety concerns associated with the Department of Veterans Affairs' new electronic health record have led to top members of the House VA Committee calling for the agency to stop future rollouts.
April 27, 2022 -
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Social media and text messaging are now a way of life for people in the military — they use the services to keep in contact with friends, for recruiting, to do their jobs, to find like-minded people or just to show their mom what they did today. Those platforms are also wrought with sexual harassment, bullying, hazing and intimidation directed at troops and perpetrated by them.
April 26, 2022 -
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After guilty pleas, settlements, investigations, extra investments, more staff and promises to do better from contractors and the Pentagon, at least one military housing company is still failing to remediate hazards in service members’ homes and inadequately recording complaints made by those troops and their families.
April 26, 2022
