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FILE - The U.S. Capitol building is seen before sunrise on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, March. 21, 2022. With an urgent funding request stuck in Congress, the Health Resources and Services Administration says it can no longer cover medical bills for COVID tests and treatments for uninsured people and will stop taking claims at midnight Tuesday. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe, File)

When inspectors general fail, the backstop itself seems to fail

There’s a special committee of the Council of Inspectors General that’s supposed to take action when inspectors general fail to the exercise of good conduct.

Agency Oversight

In this image provided by the Department of Health and Human Services, federal agents from Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General engage in search warrant operations at a laboratory in Atlanta. More than 35 individuals associated with telemedicine companies and cancer genetic testing laboratories were charged for actions related to fraudulent genetic testing. The Justice Department announced charges on May 26, 2021, against more than a dozen people from Florida to California in a series of Medicare scams that exploited coronavirus fears to bill tens of millions of dollars in bogus claims. (Department of Health and Human Services via AP)

The IG community is taking a closer look at its own work force

Federal Newscast

Commerce IG deems GAO staffing higher priority than OTA

Agency Oversight

U.S. Navy

When should the public know everything?

Tom Temin Commentary

Oversight.gov scores funding in 2019 spending bill; DHS gets less for FEMA HQ

Budget

ILE - In this July 22, 2018 file photo, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin speaks during a news conference at the G20 meeting of Finance Ministers and Central Bank governors in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The Treasury Department has issued new rules on foreign investments into American companies that will give the government more power to block foreign transactions on national security grounds. The rules represent the latest escalation in an intensifying economic conflict between the United States and China. (AP Photo/Gustavo Garello)

After 40 years, IGs, agency heads and Congress haven’t yet mastered balancing act

Agency Oversight

Heitkamp proposes independent IG agency following watchdog vacancies

Agency Oversight

HHS watchdog podcast takes behind-the-scenes look at health care fraud

Agency Oversight

Vacant positions, vacant buildings and a very merry fiscal year

In Episode 2 of Bureauchat, Federal News Radio reporters Meredith Somers and Nicole Ogrysko catch up on vacant offices in the federal government — both…

IG community looks to put ‘teeth behind the bark’ with subpoena power

House oversight members said they want help give agency inspectors general all the tools they need to do thorough work.

Congress

Michael Horowitz, the Justice Department's inspector general, testifies at a House hearing in 2012. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

New inspector general website allows public to oversee watchdog work

Management

Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz says the hope is to spin off a page that looks at disaster assistance funds.

CIGIE

When inspectors general fail, the backstop itself seems to fail

The IG community is taking a closer look at its own work force

Commerce IG deems GAO staffing higher priority than OTA

When should the public know everything?

Oversight.gov scores funding in 2019 spending bill; DHS gets less for FEMA HQ

New bill asks Treasury Dept. to offer furloughed feds interest free loans

Lawmakers, IGs seek upgrade for popular oversight website a year after rollout

40 years after Inspector General Act, where does IG community go from here?

After 40 years, IGs, agency heads and Congress haven’t yet mastered balancing act

Heitkamp proposes independent IG agency following watchdog vacancies

HHS watchdog podcast takes behind-the-scenes look at health care fraud

Vacant positions, vacant buildings and a very merry fiscal year

IG community looks to put ‘teeth behind the bark’ with subpoena power

New inspector general website allows public to oversee watchdog work

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