Agency Oversight
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In today's Federal Newscast, activist group asks the Senate Rules Committee and House Administration Committee to force the Capitol Police to publish inspector general reports online.
January 04, 2022 -
From its embassy buildings to how it conducts diplomacy, the State Department has been on a modernization drive.
January 03, 2022 -
The Pentagon said it's streamlined the approval process for urgent use of National Guard forces in the District of Columbia.
December 30, 2021 -
In today's Federal Newscast: A former top government scientist is exposed for thousands of dollars in sloppy expense-account reporting. An $83 million contract might mean millions of COVID test kits in America's future. And online military exchanges are now available to a new crop of customers.
December 30, 2021 -
The improved performance is a positive sign for USPS management. However, the latest COVID-19 quarantine figures indicate USPS will continue to contend with employee availability issues well into 2022.
December 27, 2021 -
In today's Federal Newscast, auditors for the Department of Veterans Affairs say the data Veterans Affairs is using to measure its capacity to provide specialty health care might not be accurate.
December 21, 2021 -
Warning that extremism in the ranks is increasing, Pentagon officials are issuing detailed new rules prohibiting service members from actively engaging in extremist activities
December 20, 2021 -
When you oversee an enterprise as big as the Defense Department, you need a plan. And that's what the Office of Inspector General does every year, develop a plan for the year ahead.
December 20, 2021 -
Biden’s executive order, in fact, marks the latest in a series of efforts over the past 30 years to measure and improve public-facing government services.
December 20, 2021 -
The Postal Service went through “extraordinary measures” to deliver mail-in ballots to voters and election boards on time in fall 2020. Now it’s agreed to continue with those practices for federal elections through at least 2028.
December 17, 2021 -
The Senate Veterans Affairs Committee introduced new legislation that would require regular reports from the Department of Veterans Affairs on the cost, schedule and performance of its massive electronic health records modernization project.
December 16, 2021 -
Two senators remain concerned these agencies haven’t done more to tighten the flow of drugs, such as fentanyl, from coming into the United States, despite championing legislation that gives them the tools to do so.
December 14, 2021 -
The final executive order contains many of the same elements from a draft version of the executive order that Federal News Network obtained last month.
December 13, 2021 -
The 174-page bill, which the House passed earlier this week along party lines, expands federal employee whistleblower protections and updates the 80-year-old Hatch Act. It will likely face a tough path forward in an equally divided Senate.
December 10, 2021 -
What promises to be a long accounting for the federal response to the pandemic, it's already underway.
December 10, 2021