Agency Oversight
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Testifying before House lawmakers in the first half of a marathon day on Capitol Hill, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt said he will cooperate with investigators on 10 pending probes into spending and ethics at the EPA.
April 26, 2018 -
More than 200 employees with U.S. Customs and Border Protection have been arrested on corruption-related charges in the last 14 years. Thirteen of those arrests have come during the Trump Administration.
April 26, 2018 -
Democratic House lawmakers, together with the largest federal employee union, have called on EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt to step down amid a growing number of federal investigations.
April 25, 2018 -
House Democratic leaders want to subpoena the Homeland Security and Justice departments for documents they have failed to provide regarding possible violations of whistleblower laws.
April 25, 2018 -
The director of the Office of Personnel Management said he wants to restore the importance of the Chief Human Capital Officers Council. Jeff Pon has asked agency and department heads to put very senior level representatives on the council that strategizes human resource policy for government employees.
April 24, 2018 -
Office of Management Director Mick Mulvaney told House lawmakers that his agency would conduct an ethics probe into spending at the Environmental Protection Agency.
April 20, 2018 -
Dominic Cussatt, VA’s chief information security officer, said VA has addressed several long-standing cyber problems, including the use of two-factor authentication.
April 20, 2018 -
The Air Force is using interview hubs and other tactics to cut back on security clearance wait times.
April 19, 2018 -
Only 8 out of 44 systems for the 2020 Census' practice run in Rhode Island have been tested to date, the Government Accountability Office told lawmakers Wednesday.
April 19, 2018 -
Reading the inspector general's meta-report, you'd think there's nothing the government can do right. History says otherwise.
April 19, 2018 -
From buildings that collapse in the rain to crooked contractors, the special inspector general for Afghanistan Reconstruction has seen it all.
April 19, 2018 -
Members of the federal oversight community told House lawmakers Wednesday that would-be whistleblowers need to feel comfortable about reporting wrongdoing at their agencies without fear of retaliation.
April 18, 2018 -
The Office of Personnel Management's inspector general says the agency needs a contingency plan to address risks in the long-term care insurance market.
April 18, 2018 -
House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) wants the Defense Department to cut its Fourth Estate spending.
April 17, 2018 -
A GAO report found holes in CMS' systems for protecting private health data between entities.
April 17, 2018