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In today's Top Federal Headlines, the House passes a bill to extend Veterans Affairs' expedited removal process for senior executives to all SES members and the VA Commission on Care releases its long list of recommendations for the agency....
The Justice Department has accused more than a dozen suspects of exaggerating the distance they traveled to receive medical treatment in order to increase travel reimbursements.
In today's Top Federal Headlines, the Justice Department is interested in knowing how law enforcement agencies are using drones, and the Obama administration plans to utilize data to change local incarceration patterns.
Feds seem to be the big villains these days, according to some politicians. Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says it's time to alter that misconception.
Congress still has real issues to deal with like Brexit and the Federal Budget, but members are on a two-week recess. Joining the Federal Drive with Tom Temin with a summer outlook is Roll Call senior editor David Hawkings.
The Republican team broke its seven-year losing streak against the Democrats during Thursday's Congressional Baseball Game with an 8-7 victory.
Now that Congress looks poised to reject the Defense Department’s requests for another round of base realignments and closures (BRAC) for a fifth year in a row, the Air Force has decided to start its own process to calculate how valuable each of its bases actually are to the various missions it performs.
Each year, congressional Democrats and Republicans look to settle their differences on the baseball diamond. More accrurately, they raise money for charity through ticket sales to what might be described as less and major-league grade ball-playing. The 2016 Congressional Baseball game takes place tonight at Nationals Park in Southeast D.C. Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) is manager of the Republican Team. He told Federal News Radio's Eric White on Federal Drive with Tom Temin about the game's history and what players to watch out for.
Veteran preference is in the news again, with new legislation proposing new limits. Former Homeland Security Chief Human Capital Officer Jeff Neal says that's a big deal, becausey veteran preference is a kind of third rail of civil service reform.
Commands and agencies throughout the Defense Department have identified the precise civilian jobs they intend to eliminate or restructure under a Pentagon initiative to cut back layers of administration.
Both the House and Senate are proposing protest reform in their versions of the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act, but would these reforms be helpful? Stuart Turner, a counsel at the law firm Arnold and Porter, offers his analysis on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
The Obama administration has already voiced its objections to the major reshuffling of DoD’s organizational chart the Senate proposed in its version of this year’s Defense authorization bill.
Congress is pondering a major change in a benefit for veterans in government jobs. Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says the lack of publicity on it is very odd.
The House Oversight Committee voted out a resolution to censure IRS Commissioner John Koskinen. The vote was on party lines, with Democrats opposing. Republicans hope it is leads to an impeachment proceeding. Steve Ryan, a partner at the law firm McDermott Will and Emery, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin the whole effort is misguided.