Agency Oversight
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In today's Federal Newscast, a bipartisan group in the House Veterans Affairs Committee wants more information about VA's plans to curb sexual harassment.
May 15, 2019 -
The Trump administration has announced more details behind its proposed reorganization of the Office of Personnel Management, a week before the plan is scheduled to receive more intense congressional scrutiny before the House Oversight and Reform Government Operations Subcommittee.
May 14, 2019 -
Former ATF special agent and whistleblower Vincent Cefalu says the bureau needs a permanent director, and more accountability in dealing with whistleblowers.
May 13, 2019 -
Following pressure from lawmakers at a House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing last month, the Postal Service has shed more light on a strategic plan aimed to outline a long-term business model for USPS.
May 10, 2019 -
Members of the House Ways and Means Committee and IRS watchdogs have expressed concerns about the size of the agency’s tax gap — hundreds of billions of dollars that go uncollected each year — but disagree how best to close the gap.
May 10, 2019 -
The Interior Department hasn’t had a permanent inspector general at the helm for more than a decade.
May 03, 2019 -
PEER senior counsel Peter Jenkins told Federal Drive with Tom Temin why the group is challenging the appointment of the NPS’s acting deputy director for operations.
May 03, 2019 -
OMB has doubled down efforts to transform customer experience in government as a way to address other top management challenges.
May 02, 2019 -
Amid bipartisan concern for recent leadership changes at the Department of Homeland Security, oversight experts advise Congress to make structural changes to staff up the management directorates at DHS.
May 02, 2019 -
Life is all about priorities, protection and being present. Gigi Schumm welcomes Assiya Ashraf-Miller from the State Department's diplomatic security bureau.
May 02, 2019 -
In today's Federal Newscast, another former member of the intelligence community was found to have conspired with Chinese intelligence services.
May 02, 2019 -
The Government Accountability Office has urged the Census Bureau to step up its efforts to implement hundreds of action items on its cybersecurity to-do list.
May 02, 2019 -
Congress has already appropriated more than $17 million, but lawmakers said they still haven't seen the department's detailed plan for the Interior reorganization.
May 01, 2019 -
Congress killed off the Office of Technology Assessment in the mid-90s, but members of the House Appropriations Committee have taken the first step toward bringing it back. The committee, in a draft of the fiscal…
May 01, 2019 -
The House Oversight and Reform Committee will try yet again to advance bipartisan postal reform through Congress this year, as the U.S. Postal Service continues to careen toward financial disaster.
April 30, 2019