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White House permitting plan seeks interagency coordination for infrastructure spending

The Biden administration is looking to accelerate the pace of federal permitting and environmental reviews for thousands of infrastructure projects under…

Agency Oversight

Lawmakers anxiously await Veterans Affairs’ new community care standards

Federal Newscast

FILE- In this Monday, Oct. 5, 2015 file photo, Residents of a lakeside neighborhood walk across Overcreek Bridge by the remains of a failed dam in Columbia, S.C. Officials say the structure beneath a road collapsed Monday afternoon following days of heavy rain, nearly emptying a lake in a few minutes. No one was injured. South Carolina had problems with crumbling roads and bridges and old drinking water systems and dams long before the historic floods of the past week. Now the state faces what will likely be hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars of bills to fix washed out roads and bridges and destroyed dams. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves, File)

Infrastructure stakeholders want better agency communication, no sunset from FAST Act reforms

Congress

FILE - In this Nov. 2, 2016, file photo, the FBI's J. Edgar Hoover headquarter building in Washington. The FBI has been reviewing the handling of thousands of terror-related tips and leads received over the last three years to make sure they were properly investigated and that no obvious red flags were missed, The Associated Press has learned. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

GSA acting administrator pledges help in finding FBI a new home, defends Trump Hotel lease

Facilities/Construction

Lawmaker proposes ‘FAST’ slim down of federal property

Congress

Lawmakers: CMS should rely on states to fight fraud

Technology