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President Obama's 2.1 percent pay hike may be the last feds see for awhile from Congress, says Jeff Neal, former DHS chief human capital officer.
Both members of Congress and the Office of Government Ethics are attempting to get their hands around what was once an arcane federal ethics issue: discretionary trusts, and whether an executive branch employee's interests in one violates the criminal conflict of interest statute.
A declassified report the intelligence community is set to release to Congress and the public next week on alleged Russian interference with the 2016 presidential election will assert that cyber attacks were only one part of a complex and adeptly executed information campaign — one that the nation’s top intelligence officer says the U.S. is inadequately equipped to counter.
The Commission on Cybersecurity for the 45th President detailed 250 recommendations, including creating a specific cybersecurity agency within DHS and a new independent unit of auditors to stress test agency networks.
You might say the 115th Congress is off to a spirited start. Most of the attention went to the short-lived attempt to reorganize the House ethics office, a creature that doesn't even exist in the Senate. David Hawkings, senior editor at Roll Call, offers his insight on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
With the the chairman of the Merit Systems Protection Board resigning in less than a week, employees appealing their disciplinary actions will have to be patient as they wait for President-elect Donald Trump to appoint at least one member for a quorum.
Congress is considering privatizing the national air traffic control system as one way to help pay for the modernization of aviation infrastructure. Lawmakers asked the Government Accountability Office to analyze privatized air traffic control in other nations. Gerald Dillingham, GAO’s director of civil aviation issues, tells Federal News Radio’s Jared Serbu on Federal Drive with Tom Temin Congress will have a lot of potential pitfalls to think through before it presses ahead with privatization.
The House of Representatives voted Tuesday on its rules package for the 115th Congress, which reinstates a little-known provision from previous congressional sessions. The "Holman Rule" lets lawmakers offer amendments to appropriations packages on the House floor, which could cut an agency's spending, the number of its employees or a person's salary.
One of the main tenets of the Pentagon's Better Buying Power initiative is changing procurement for the better.
The first order of business for the 115th Congress will be conducting confirmation hearings for some of Trump’s nominees and addressing the repeal of Obamacare.
The Air Force is selecting its biggest class ever to participate in the Career Intermission Program.
The Air Force will implement a new civilian evaluation system next spring to increase communication between supervisors and employees.
The 114th Congress left a lot of unfinished business. Besides straightening out budget priorities with the new Trump administration, the 115th will have a lot of policy changes to deal with. Roll Call Senior Editor David Hawkings provides a look ahead on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) raises questions about safeguards for congressional staffers against retaliatory criminal referrals initiated by the executive branch.