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Tom Temin
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In today's Federal Newscast, two Senators introduce legislation to the Veterans Affairs Department address its 45,000 vacancies.
June 13, 2017 -
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Military facility sustainment has been one of the hardest-hit portions of the Defense budget over the last several years. Still, installations do find new ways to meet their missions without more money.
June 12, 2017 -
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It was almost exactly one year ago that the Obama administration decided the General Services Administration needed a dedicated organization for fostering innovative technologies in government, and moved to stand up the Technology Transformation Service. The new administration has other ideas, saying that in order to streamline GSA, the TTS needs to get folded back within the larger Federal Acquisition Service. Larry Allen is president of Allen Federal Business Partners. He joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin to talk about the latest reorganization.
June 12, 2017 -
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The Plain Language Act, enacted back in 2010, requires federal agencies to use understandable English. Nearly all agencies have established policies for using plain language. But what they actually put out can leave normal people, even lawyers, scratching their heads. Lots of passive voice, lots of long sentences. A company called VisibleThread has technology that can analyze text for clarity and consistency. It has published a clarity index of federal agencies, based on analysis of their websites. CEO Fergal McGovern joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin with highlights.
June 12, 2017 -
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Federal Medicaid dollars are spent by the states. The Health and Human Services Department requires states to have Medicaid Fraud Control Units that hunt for theft or patient abuse. And they do get results. Richard Stern is the director of the Division of Medicaid Fraud Policy and Oversight in the HHS inspector general's office. He talked with Federal Drive with Tom Temin about their accomplishments in 2016.
June 12, 2017 -
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In today's Federal Newscast, the Justice Department tells disappointed lawmakers there was not enough evidence to prosecute executives at the Veterans Affairs Department related to the mismanagement of a construction project at a VA hospital in the Denver area.
June 12, 2017 -
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Despite wrestling with a less than ideal budget, the Army is trying to keep energy resilient in the 21st century. Federal News Radio's Scott Maucione talks with Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Energy and Sustainability Jack Surash on Federal Drive with Tom Temin about the Army's energy future.
June 10, 2017 -
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Employers and labor are opposing President Trump's plan to combine the Labor Department’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).
June 09, 2017 -
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Low-income housing shouldn't force people to live in squalor. Yet the dwindling supply of low-income housing in the United States has been deteriorating because of aging and neglect. Thomas Davis, director of the Office of Recapitalization at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, has marshaled billions in private money to rehab tens of thousands of affordable housing units. And now he's a finalist in this year's Service to America Medals program.
June 09, 2017 -
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The Environmental Protection Agency is launching a program enabled by a 2014 law, the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act. It's a federal loan guarantee program for companies investing in significant water-related projects. A billion dollars worth this year. Joining Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more about the program, Raffael Stein, the water infrastructure division director in EPA's Office of Water.
June 09, 2017 -
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Buried in the Trump administration's 2018 budget proposal is the merger of two agencies. It would take the little-known Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, cut its budget, and make it part of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Is this a big deal? For one view, Federal Drive with Tom Temin turns to Mickey Silberman, principal in the affirmative action practice at the law firm Jackson Lewis.
June 09, 2017 -
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In today's Federal Newscast, the Justice Department's inspector general says an unnamed senior official with the Executive Office for Immigration Review was involved in a scheme to hire friends and feed them information that was not public for job opportunities.
June 09, 2017 -
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One way Congress might improve is if it upgraded the way in which it communicates to the public. Congressional agencies like the Government Accountability Office and the Government Publishing Office have made tangible modernizing strides in recent years.
June 08, 2017 -
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Donald Trump, of all people, should know the importance of having the right people in place. Building an administration is fundamentally a process of putting people in the hundreds of policy positions open to a new president. So what's the holdup? For some insight, Max Stier, president and CEO of the Partnership for Public Service, joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more.
June 08, 2017
