Agency Oversight
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Besides being the biggest health care delivery organization in the country, the Veterans Health Administration is also one of the biggest medical research organizations.
February 23, 2021 -
Agencies interested in converting a current or former political appointee to a permanent position in the career civil service must get approval from the Office of Personnel Management first.
February 22, 2021 -
A series of appointments clause challenges have created a second, albeit much smaller, backlog of pending cases awaiting action from the Merit Systems Protection Board.
February 18, 2021 -
The military services have hired hundreds of new staff to ensure troops and their families have decent living conditions, but DoD says sustaining the improvements they've made will cost an extra $120 million per year.
February 18, 2021 -
The Department of Veterans Affairs has a statutory responsibility to offer networks of health care providers outside of its own system.
February 17, 2021 -
For how they're faring, Federal Drive with Tom Temin checked in with the Executive Director of the Office of Congressional Workplace Rights, Susan Tsui Grundmann.
February 17, 2021 -
The Library of Congress recently digitized and made publicly available papers of presidents from George Washington to Calvin Coolidge. For how they did it, Civil War and Reconstruction specialist Michelle Krowl.
February 16, 2021 -
Democratic Senators reintroduced a bill to create an office in the Small Business Administration to bolster underserved businesses.
February 16, 2021 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the House Oversight and Reform Committee cleared a 570-million-dollar emergency paid leave sick leave bank for federal employees and postal workers.
February 16, 2021 -
The Veterans Health Administration is marking its 75th year. Now that Denis McDonough is confirmed as the new veterans affairs secretary, what will his overseers on Capitol Hill be most concerned with?
February 12, 2021 -
The Project on Government Oversight's senior analyst Sean Moulton joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin to share what he's been able to find out.
February 10, 2021 -
No fewer than eight federal programs in four departments have to do with chemical safety and security. But there's duplication, overlap and fragmentation in their efforts.
February 10, 2021 -
To put USPS on a long-term sustainable path, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy said the agency will soon release a 10-year strategy focused on upgrading its aging infrastructure.
February 09, 2021 -
Michael Horowitz and Allison Lerner discussed what the inspectors general community thinks of the top challenges for the federal government in the next year.
February 09, 2021 -
How has the government done dispersing CARES Act money? Chairman of the Pandemic Relief Accountability Committee, Michael Horowitz, with highlights of their report.
February 09, 2021