Veterans Affairs
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In today's Federal Newscast, wary of another last-minute budget deal, seven Republican senators asked Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to expedite floor consideration of funding bills and nominees before the end of the fiscal year.
May 16, 2018 -
VA officials are making the rounds to promote a program they call Make The Connection, in which veterans with mental health problems can talk to fellow veterans who have been successfully treated.
May 15, 2018 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Federal Risk Authorization and Management Program and the Cloud Security Alliance announce the creation of FedSTAR to offer mutual recognition between the two security programs.
May 15, 2018 -
In today's Federal Newscast, a rule allowing Veterans Affairs providers to administer healthcare across state lines using virtual technology becomes finalized.
May 14, 2018 -
The Veterans Benefits Administration is reverting to previous performance management guidelines, which the American Federation of Government Employees says it too "chaotic."
May 10, 2018 -
The House Veterans Affairs Committee also signed off on a clear oversight process for VA's electronic health record modernization project, plus several other pieces of new legislation.
May 08, 2018 -
In today's Federal Newscast, a policy update from the U.S. Postal Service emphasized its preference for so-called clustered box units in new housing developments, instead of door-to-door.
May 07, 2018 -
OMB announced the comments could not be located in response to a public records request.
May 04, 2018 -
Rep. Brian Mast recently opened the first-ever Congressional office inside a federal agency.
May 03, 2018 -
In today's Federal Newscast, a new report from the Energy Department's Inspector General finds the agency's Chief Financial Officer moved too much money over to the Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability account.
May 03, 2018 -
Democracy Forward files a lawsuit over the president's decision to name his own acting veterans affairs secretary, rather than install the deputy secretary to lead VA on an interim basis.
May 01, 2018 -
The armed services committees have been warned, the Veterans Choice Program will run out of money shortly after May 30.
May 01, 2018 -
Application programming interfaces, or APIs, connect front- and back-end systems, to which Lighthouse's product owner said the VA wants to add more data.
May 01, 2018 -
In today's Federal Newscast, two organizations are suing the Veterans Affairs Department over the White House's decision to appoint Defense Undersecretary Robert Wilkie to be acting VA secretary.
May 01, 2018 -
A lack of permanent leadership at the Veterans Affairs Department compounding many longstanding challenges at the agency, including a path forward for the VA Choice Program.
April 30, 2018