Agency Oversight
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The Office of Personnel Management said Friday it would impose a temporary hiring freeze on positions in the Senior Executive Service. The move is customary during most presidential transitions, though OPM has previously given agencies more time to suspend SES hiring.
January 08, 2021 -
Employees within the Justice Department's investigative subcomponents offered mixed reviews of their organizations' responses to the COVID-19, according to a recent survey from the department's inspector general.
January 08, 2021 -
The FCC has been busy for the last several years. Now longtime chairman Ajit Pai is getting ready to make his exit.
January 08, 2021 -
The National Defense Authorization Act for 2021 is, like NDAAs tend to be, a vehicle burdened with semi-related policy provisions.
January 07, 2021 -
Here are a few encouraging takeaways for the federal workforce after the end of a strenuous year.
January 01, 2021 -
New challenges and opportunities lay ahead for USPS in the new year, but here's a recap of what the USPS overcame in 2020.
December 30, 2020 -
The omnibus appropriations bill recently passed by Congress is so large, it took a week to stuff it into whatever antiquated electronic system the Congress operates. But not all federal documents are so fat and bloated.
December 30, 2020 -
Although not the best known agency, the CFTC has had a busy period the last couple of years. It's reorganized, established a new division and pursued a record setting agenda.
December 29, 2020 -
In today's Federal Newscast: The executive order trying to ban certain types of diversity training is in trouble. During these last days in office, it looks like a first override is in the cards for President Trump. And postal workers might be getting vaccinated soon.
December 29, 2020 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Education Department's inspector general says the agency developed a decent enough reopening plan for its employees during the pandemic.
December 23, 2020 -
The latest COVID-19 relief package drew on some of the lessons agencies and lawmakers learned in implementing the first round of loans, payments and direct aid earlier this year. The IRS, for example, will receive access to the Social Security Administration's death master file in hopes of more accurately disbursing economic stimulus payments.
December 22, 2020 -
Not all of the aged have equal access to the care they need. To help improve it, Health and Human Services is asking a wide range of health care providers, academics and startups for information and ideas.
December 22, 2020 -
In today's Federal Newscast, House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) wants to make sure President Trump doesn't dispose of any vital presidential records on his way out the door.
December 22, 2020 -
The House Oversight and Reform Committee released the 11th FITARA scorecard where no agency received an "A" grade and 10 agencies earned B grades.
December 22, 2020 -
The Small Business Administration has been mandated by Congress to evaluate and revise the size standards for eight industrial sectors. Tom Temin to a look at the process with Khem Sharma, the Director of the Office of Size Standards at the Small Business Administration.
December 22, 2020