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In today's Federal Newscast, the Postal Service's inspector general said USPS has more than a million square feet in excess real estate.
A pilot program is making it easier for recent veterans with military trucking licenses to transition into civilian occupations.
TRANSCOM wants to build stricter cybersecurity into its contract requirements. Currently, its commercial partners are not held to DoD standards.
A way for guardsmen to get paid for the time they wait for promotions is in the works in the new defense authorization bill.
A new bill will give backdated pay to officers who are waiting months for promotion.
U.S. Northern Command is conducting an internal review to see what it can learn from this past hurricane season to better prepare for future relief efforts.
The Senate Armed Services Committee is considering a subpoena for White House cybersecurity coordinator Rob Joyce.
Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain (R-Ariz.) laid the weight of DoD's first audit squarely on the shoulders of David Norquist, President Trump's pick for DoD comptroller. The department hasn't been audited in 17 years, and has spent the past seven engaged in audit-readiness preparations.
Nagging questions remain in Congress on whether it really did anything useful to prevent another 2008-like financial meltdown. Now an unlikely pair of lawmakers — Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) — think it's time to have the government re-regulate banking in a way the Dodd-Frank bill did not. Roll Call Senior Editor David Hawkings tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin they're thinking back to Glass-Steagall.
Problems transferring licenses from military to civilian world or from one state to another are starting to get attention in Congress.
Two Democrat Senators sent their second letter to the General Services Administration asking how they are going to deal with the “violation” of the terms of the Trump Hotel lease.
Both members of Congress and the Office of Government Ethics are attempting to get their hands around what was once an arcane federal ethics issue: discretionary trusts, and whether an executive branch employee's interests in one violates the criminal conflict of interest statute.
The House Freedom Caucus is giving President-elect Donald Trump a list of regulations to repeal in 2017, many focused around defense and clean energy.
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Ranking Member Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) asked the Government Accountability Office to review potential conflicts of interest, possible violations of security protocol and issues of transparency and logistics of President-elect Donald Trump's transition. Meanwhile, two other lawmakers are once again raising concerns about the potential for political appointees to "burrow in" to career positions.