Employee at Interior CIO’s office admits to fraudulent card use

• An employee in the Interior Department chief information officer’s office admits to using a government credit card for personal charges. DOI’s Inspector General says Tracy Hamm, an IT Portfolio Manager, charged $3,500 to her assigned travel card. Though the charges were travel related, they were made when she wasn’t on official travel. (Department of Interior Office of Inspector General)

• The White House wants the authority to monitor or take out drones. Recode is reporting the Trump administration is circulating a new proposal to allow the federal government to track, commandeer, disable, hack or destroy drones. May be a tough task as a federal court recently ruled the Federal Aviation Administration lacks the authority to force flyers to register their drones. (Recode)

• The House passes another measure to reduce Environmental Protection Agency regulations on pesticides. The bill’s sponsor, Bob Gibbs (R-OH), says it will eliminate an unnecessary regulatory process of getting federal approval to use certain insecticides, fungicides and rodenticides. (House Committee on Agriculture)

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