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House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), and 18 other members of his committee, introduced a resolution calling for IRS Commissioner John Koskinen's impeachment. Koskinen said his agency has made some progress in improving accountability and communication in the wake of IRS scandals.
The Director of National Intelligence released a new transparency plan that will facilitate the publication of some intelligence documents.
The Homeland Security Department is getting a clearer picture now of its own asset portfolio. The department is working on the second phase of the DHS Management Cube. It's a tool that gathers and consolidates financial, acquisition, human capital, contracting, real property and security data from across all 22 DHS components. Kirsten Dalboe is the cube's program manager. She tells Federal News Radio's Nicole Ogrysko what kinds of information DHS is trying to tie together.
The Health and Human Services Department identified $712 million this summer in false health care billings and brought charges against 243 people. It's the largest action the Medicare Fraud Strike Force has ever taken. The department's inspector general credits the success to the datasets it gathered and studied to find new cases of waste, fraud and abuse. Caryl Brzymialkiewicz is assistant inspector general and chief data officer at HHS. She tells Federal News Radio's Nicole Ogrysko where she thinks agencies are headed with big data, and what best practices her office has found.
The Homeland Security Department is working through phase two of its Management Cube initiative. The project gives the department a better view of its own financial, acquisition, human capital, contracting, asset and security data.
The House Veterans Affairs Committee issued subpoenas to five VA officials on Wednesday. However, the hearing accompanying the subpoenas exposed what could be a potential problem for all federal agencies. Federal News Radio's Scott Maucione has more.
Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) wants more specifics from the Department of Homeland Security on 88 cases of extended paid administrative leave.
The Veterans Affairs Department's relocation scandal sheds light on a federal employee house-selling program that may be costing taxpayers.
Some members of industry say the Government Publishing Office is taking advantage of a loophole in Title 44 of the U.S. Code, which lets GPO produce secure credential cards as a core agency function.
The House has passed a bill supporters say will streamline the agency's many moving parts by making management leaner and more efficient.
Sen. Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.) has asked OMB Director Shaun Donovan to better police agency spending on public relations.
Federal scientists feel there's too much political influence at their agencies. That's according to a survey of 7,000 scientists at four federal agencies recently conducted by the Center for Science and Democracy. Paul Souza is the assistant director for science applications at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. He joins the Federal Drive with Tom Temin with an agency perspective on these survey results.
A bipartisan piece of legislation introduced earlier this year aims to ease the transition between presidential administrations. The Presidential Transitions Improvements Act of 2015 would ensure that a senior-level, White House-led interagency transition council is in place at least six months before Election Day. The bill originated in the Senate. Now it has gained some serious traction in the House. Danny Werfel is the director of the Boston Consulting Group. He joins the Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more on what's in this bill and how agencies can start preparing for a presidential transition even without it.
The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration issued a warning against becoming one of thousands of victims fooled by a phone scam that's robbed $23 million from the pockets of taxpayers.