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Senate bill gives $375M in funding to new FBI HQ

Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) secured the funding for the new FBI HQ from the full committee in the Financial Services and General Government bill.

Workforce

More guardrails needed for any potential agency relocations, federal advocates say

Federal Report

Feds teleworking overseas got a pay raise. State Dept honors an employee who made it happen

Facilities/Construction

Future FBI headquarters coming to Greenbelt, Maryland, GSA decides

Workforce

After USDA Antideficiency Act violation, lawmakers push bill for more relocation oversight

Budget

Senate plans to take back $290M in TMF funding in 2024

Agency Oversight

Why federal employees are watching the political landscape more than ever

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Agency Oversight

Under this proposed law, federal agencies could not just skip town

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Pay

Exclusive Federal employees teleworking overseas will get a pay boost under NDAA provision

Veterans Affairs

VA will provide 'covered' abortions, protect healthcare providers from state laws in new policy

Congress

Senate Dems introduce bill to prevent Schedule F from resurfacing

FILE - In this Nov. 30, 2017, file photo, the J. Edgar Hoover FBI building in Washington Lawyers for a former FBI lawyer who pleaded guilty to altering an email during the Trump-Russia investigation "made a grievous mistake" but should be spared prison time and given probation instead. That's according to a sentencing memorandum filed Dec. 3, 2020, in Washington's federal court. Kevin Clinesmith admitted in August 2020 to having altered an email used in support of an FBI application to monitor the communications of former Trump campaign aide Carter Page. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Facilities/Construction

Biden brings back plans to move FBI headquarters to suburbs in 2023 budget request

Sheet metal worker Carey Mercer assembles ductwork at Contractors Sheet Metal on Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2021, in New York. The construction industry is fighting to recruit more women into a sector that faces chronic labor shortages. As spending on infrastructure rises, construction firms will need to hire at least 430,000 new skilled laborers in 2021, according to an analysis of federal data by the Associated Builders and Contractors. Right now, only 4% of construction laborers in the U.S. are women, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (AP Photo/Kevin Hagen)

Federal Newscast

Contractors have less than two months to create affirmative action programs

The Capitol is seen in Washington, Monday, Sept. 20, 2021, as Congress returns to a busy schedule and Democratic lawmakers are laboring to shoulder President Joe Biden's massive $3.5 trillion "build back better" agenda. Congress must also fund the government in the next 10 days, or risk a federal shutdown. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Congress

What's next for Congress now that they've kicked the budget stone down the road again

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Congress

Congress' summer break is like a vacation during which you've got to keep checking email

From left, Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J.,Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Sen. Ron Wyden, D-O.R., announce a draft bill that would decriminalize marijuana on a federal level, Wednesday, July 14, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades)

Congress

COVID safety protocols, infrastructure and insurrection on Congress' agenda this week

Federal Newscast

Contracting community asks Congress for more tech funding — again

FILE - In this Oct. 7, 2020, file photo Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Charles Rettig testifies before a House Committee on Oversight and Reform hearing in Washington. At a Senate hearing Rettig said Tuesday, April 13, 2021, that he expects to meet the July 1 deadline in the new pandemic rescue law for starting a groundbreaking tax program aimed at reducing child poverty. That means new advance monthly payments of as much as $300 per child could begin flowing to lower-income families this summer. (Tasos Katopodis/Pool via AP, File)

Hiring/Retention

IRS plans 'significant hiring' to stay ahead of 52K employees expected to leave in coming years

Chris Van Hollen, Debbie Stabenow, Chuck Schumer

IT Modernization

Van Hollen, Blunt introduce bill to keep agencies on top of emerging tech

federal employees teleworking overseas

Budget

State Dept adds 1,200 to Foreign Service ranks under Democrats’ $12B budget plan

Reporter's Notebook

Why the Senate may finally start supporting impactful IT modernization funding

Financial Adviser

Pay & Benefits

Omnibus endorses 1% federal pay raise, gives feds more time to repay deferred payroll taxes

Senator Gary Peters, D-Mich., questions Department of Homeland Security Acting Secretary Chad Wolf during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing to examine Department of Homeland Security personnel deployments to recent protests on Thursday, Aug. 6, 2020, in Washington. (Toni Sandys/The Washington Post via AP, Pool)

Agency Oversight

Lawmakers ask for GAO's help to identify 'burrowing' over last 4 years

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