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In Omaha, Nebraska, private donors are ready and waiting to donate up to $80 million to help build a new veterans clinic that would serve as a pilot for community-based public-private partnerships with the Veterans Affairs Department. Trouble is, that’s illegal. Under current law, VA can’t accept private donations for construction projects. Rep. Brad Ashford (D-Neb.) ,the co-sponsor of legislation that would change that, talks with Jared Serbu on Federal Drive with Tom Temin about the partnership community leaders are envisioning in Omaha
Almost 40 groups sent a letter to Congress asking it remove a FOIA exemption for DoD in the defense authorization bill.
In today's Top Federal Headlines, the Defense Department is asking Congress for money to set up a screening facility at the Pentagon Metro stop, but some lawmakers aren't convinced.
The White House’s biannual report to Congress says the House version of the 2017 spending bills would be $792 million above the limit for the defense and non-defense categories.
A little more than a month after the Office of Personnel Management dropped its long-term-care bombshell, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is asking where exactly that bomb came from.
Michael Fischetti, executive director of NCMA, makes the case that agencies and industry are equally suffering because of changes to the federal market.
The Office of Personnel Management wants to make sure political appointees hired during the current administration don't have an unfair advantage getting career jobs in the next administration.
Your summer job recess means you go to Rehoboth Beach or maybe to a villa in Gibraltar. But for members of Congress, being away from the grim domed Capitol building doesn't mean they're not working. In fact, they have workweeks averaging 59 hours. What are they doing? For some answers, Federal Drive with Tom Temin turns to David Hawkings, senior editor at Roll Call.
Architect of the Capitol crews have begun removing scaffolding and drapery from the Capitol Rotunda as the project nears completion. Tours of the Rotunda are expected to resume after Labor Day.
A new bill in the House would take a novel approach to increasing the numbers of women and minorities in high ranking positions in the Defense Department, both uniformed and civilian. It would use grants to fund organizations devoted to leadership development and mentoring.
A new bill in the House would take a novel approach to increasing the numbers of women and minorities in high ranking positions in the Defense Department, both uniformed and civilian. It would use grants to fund organizations devoted to leadership development and mentoring. The sponsor of the bill, Rep. Marc Veasey (D-Texas), joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is taking a range of steps to strengthen its cybersecurity posture, including an end-to-assessment and limiting employees' ability to copy information to removable hardware.
Congress is gone for yet another month, but the agenda items don't stop piling up. In fact, they run the gamut from appropriations to the Zika virus. Roll Call Senior Editor David Hawkings joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin to preview what to expect.
President Barack Obama signed the MEGABYTE Act into law, and GSA released two new shared services offerings to keep the “slow” summer months hopping.