Bipartisan Policy Center

In $45M settlement, CBP to make reforms addressing workplace discrimination

CBP agreed to enact a new policy presuming pregnant officers can continue to serve in their positions, rather than being systematically placed on light duty.

Workforce Rights/Governance

The Supreme Court Chevron decision spreads wider and wider

Agency Oversight

Repeal or reform? House lawmakers weigh responses to WEP, GPO

Congress

FILE - A child rinses a toothbrush at a shelter in San Francisco, Calif., June 18, 2019. Tap water is subject to a rash of government standards but people in many communities across the U.S. remain exposed to unhealthy drinking water. A Supreme Court decision on EPA regulation of carbon emissions from power plants this past week could make it harder to expand federal regulation in other areas. (Gabrielle Lurie/San Francisco Chronicle via AP, File)

Water water everywhere: EPA using Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funds to make it safer to drink

Workforce

Breaking Down the Biden Budget

FEDtalk

Renewed calls for increasing AI research and development funds

Artificial Intelligence

Federal CIO Kent: AI creating more jobs than it’s taking over

Automation

Could it be time to rethink how federal agencies conduct oversight functions?

Federal Drive

OMB to release initial guidance on evidenced-based policy law later this spring

The Office of Management and Budget is putting the finishing touches on the initial guidance agencies will receive to implement a government transparency…

Big Data

Federal electronic health records unable to reach full potential

A decade after the start of a federally-backed effort to establish electronic health records most medical establishments have them – but systems still…

Federal Drive

The Capitol is seen as the partial government shutdown lurches into a third week with President Donald Trump standing firm in his border wall funding demands, in Washington, Monday, Jan. 7, 2019. After no weekend breakthrough to end a prolonged shutdown, newly empowered House Democrats are planning to step up pressure on Trump and Republican lawmakers to reopen the government. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

White House hints at Federal Data Strategy, OPEN Govt Data Act, in open-government strategy

Technology

The Trump administration released its first — but the U.S. government’s fourth — National Action Plan for Open Government Thursday night, more than a year after the original deadline from the international Open Government Partnership.