Agency Oversight
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A former background investigator pleaded guilty to a charge stemming from her falsification of work on background investigations of federal employees and contractors.
July 19, 2018 -
A bill that passed the House and is pending in the Senate seeks to curb misuse of federal credit cards in the Veterans Affairs Department.
July 19, 2018 -
The Internal Revenue Service has long had an on-again off-again relationship with private tax debt collectors. At the moment, it's using them.
July 19, 2018 -
House lawmakers are offering different visions of U.S. Postal Service plans to begin offering financial services to help balance its budget.
July 19, 2018 -
The Senate took its turn to question the Trump administration about its government reorganization proposals and offered a much different take than members of the House oversight committee.
July 18, 2018 -
House Veterans Affairs Committee Chairman Phil Roe (R-Tenn.) said he's less concerned by the VA's measure of disciplinary actions and more concerned about whether whistleblowers feel they can approach leadership with their concerns.
July 17, 2018 -
Oversight committees in both chambers of Congress this week will consider the president's nominees to sit on the Merit Systems Protection Board, along with other changes to disciplinary actions and probationary periods for federal employees.
July 16, 2018 -
Alan Chvotkin, executive vice president and counsel at the Professional Services Counsel, spoke on Federal Drive with Tom Temin about the implications.
July 16, 2018 -
Joe Doyle, the director of the Office of Customer Experience at USDA, said he expects the agency can make its services "faster, friendlier and easier" without asking for additional funding from Congress, or without much help from the private sector.
July 13, 2018 -
Some agency-inspector general relationships have drifted out of favor over the past 40 years. The IG community says it's time to swing the pendulum back.
July 13, 2018 -
The Environmental Protection Agency's chief of staff tells congressional investigations that the agency assigns public-records requests from environmental groups or others that it sees as "politically charged" to special internal review
July 13, 2018 -
The Senate has announced long-awaited hearings for three nominees to the Merit System Protection Board. The agency that handles appeals from the Civil Service Commission has lack a quorum to do business for more than 18 months.
July 12, 2018 -
Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.) has proposed moving the 73 federal inspectors general out from under their agencies and into their own independent agency.
July 11, 2018 -
On this week’s episode of Women of Washington, Gigi Schumm welcomes Dr. Joannie Chin, deputy director of the engineering lab at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
July 11, 2018 -
The USPS Inspector General's office got lucky as several special elections around the country in January provided good test cases.
July 11, 2018