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Budget constraints, IT management issues and a tight timeline could thwart the Census Bureau's ambitious redesign plan for the 2020 count. The bureau said it could save more than $5 billion during the 2020 Census cycle. Census' last count was the most expensive ever in U.S. history.
November 04, 2015 -
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The Federal Election Commission wants to make campaign finance data more interactive and accessible. And thanks to a partnership with the General Services Administration's 18F team, it's launched beta FEC to do just that. Lindsay Young is a developer at 18F and worked on the beta FEC site. She joins the Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more.
November 04, 2015 -
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Five Department of Veterans Affairs employees were in the hot seat this week as they answered questions on an alleged scandal involving senior officials using an agency program for their personal and financial benefit.
November 04, 2015 -
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Rep. Will Hurd, the chairman of the Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Information Technology, plans to release the first set of grades for agencies on how they are implementing the Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act, and the news isn’t good for many agencies.
November 03, 2015 -
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Every federal agency has its own management challenges, but the Small Business Administration has a lot of long-standing ones. And it still hasn't resolved most of them. That's according to the Government Accountability Office. Bill Shear is the director of financial markets and community issues at GAO and joins the Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more on the latest audit.
November 03, 2015 -
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A new report from the Government Accountability Office looked at four agencies to see how their money management and use of unobligated balances helped offset the impacts of the government shutdown and sequestration.
November 03, 2015 -
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The resolution to impeach IRS Commissioner John Koskinen won't pass a House vote, said Bill Cowden, an attorney with the Federal Practice Group and former senior trial attorney for the Justice Department.
November 03, 2015 -
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The Veterans Health Administration might have a problem when it comes to calculating mental health wait times. The Government Accountability Office found some discrepancies between when veterans requested an appointment with VHA and when those appointments actually happened. Debra Draper, GAO's director of health care issues, updated the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee on the problems recently. She joins In Depth with Francis Rose to talk about her testimony.
November 02, 2015 -
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The Veterans Affairs Department is telling Congress how it's going to meet veterans' health care needs. The plan, due Sunday, stems from the patient care crisis that rocked the VA last year. At the heart of it is the admission that VA can't do this all by itself as its new under secretary for health David Shulkin tells Federal News Radio's Emily Kopp.
October 30, 2015 -
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VA wants to focus on the specialized care related to veterans' service that other facilities cannot do. But it may stop providing services commonly found elsewhere.
October 30, 2015 -
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The No Bonuses for Tax Cheats Act would withhold bonuses from Internal Revenue Service Employees with a record of misconduct or tax delinquency.
October 29, 2015 -
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House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz is calling for IRS Commissioner John Koskinen's impeachment. He and 18 members of his committee introduced a resolution earlier this week. Chaffetz says Koskinen didn't comply with the congressional subpoena investigating controversial email scandals and audit backlogs at the IRS. The Senate says it wants to see more evidence of accountability at the agency. More now from Federal News Radio's Nicole Ogrysko.
October 29, 2015 -
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FEMA may have improperly handed out $250 million in disaster relief funds to Hurricane Sandy survivors who were already covered by their own insurance companies. That's according to a new audit by Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General, which used data analytics tools to spot potential improper payments. The OIG found up to 29,000 Sandy aid applicants may have gotten the payments even though they had insurance. John Kelly, assistant inspector general for Emergency Management Oversight at DHS, talked about the findings with In Depth guest host Jared Serbu.
October 29, 2015 -
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Director of National Intelligence James Clapper has released a new plan. He wants to increase the transparency of the intelligence community. Federal News Radio's Scott Maucione has more.
October 28, 2015
