Bob Menendez

State Department rethinks how it vets Foreign Service candidates to diversify ranks

The State Department is making the biggest change in decades to how it screens applicants seeking to join the Foreign Service.

Hiring/Retention

First Look

Senate Democrats push for more racial and gender diversity in TSP investment options

TSP

Senators want NRA Foundation out of the Combined Federal Campaign

Federal Newscast

New Senate bill requires agencies to brush up diversity and inclusion plans

Workforce

Democratic Party of Hawaii staff tabulate presidential primary ballots in Honolulu on Friday, May 22, 2020. The Democratic Party of Hawaii is scheduled Saturday to release the results of its party-run presidential primary which was delayed by more than a month due the coronavirus pandemic. The party expected most members to vote by mail and some to cast ballots at about 20 in-person polling sites. But concerns about the virus forced the party to cancel in-person voting and allow only mail ballots. (AP Photo/Caleb Jones)

USPS lays out suggestions on vote-by-mail services for local governments

Federal Newscast

Eliot Engel, Michael McCaul

Lawmakers have questions about removal of State Department IG

Federal Newscast

DoD

Glenn Fine, inspector general, Defense Department

Pentagon investigator appointed to guard against abuse of coronavirus money

Federal Newscast

Mike Pompeo

Pompeo faces uphill battle staffing career, political ranks in State Department

Hiring/Retention

Pompeo: State Dept will have ‘every dollar we need to deliver,’ despite cuts in Trump plan

Budget

New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez indicted on corruption charges

Congress