Gerry Connolly
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Three House committee chairmen have introduced the Comprehensive Paid Leave for Federal Employees Act, which would allow government workers to take up to 12 weeks of paid time off to care for a sick family member or themselves.
January 28, 2021 -
The riots and the inauguration behind it, Congress has barely settled into the next session. With only a few bills actually introduced, the Senate is mainly concerned with the Biden administration confirmations for the moment.
January 25, 2021 -
President Joe Biden took executive action Friday to repeal at least four Trump-era executive orders that limited collective bargaining and stripped certain job protections from career federal employees.
January 22, 2021 -
A bicameral pair of Democrats have reintroduced legislation to provide civilian employees with a federal pay raise in 2022.
January 21, 2021 -
Reps. Gerry Connolly and Brian Fitzpatrick introduced new legislation that would prohibit future administrations from moving career positions out of the civil service and into a new excepted service schedule.
January 14, 2021 -
In today's Federal Newscast, at least 132,000 health care professionals at the Department of Veterans Affairs have received the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
January 06, 2021 -
The House Oversight and Reform Committee released the 11th FITARA scorecard where no agency received an "A" grade and 10 agencies earned B grades.
December 22, 2020 -
A bicameral group of Democrats have asked the Government Accountability Office to help them track instances of burrowing that have occurred during the last four years.
December 18, 2020 -
Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.), chairman of the Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on Government Operations, introduced new legislation designed to help incoming administrations better track "midnight regulations" issued in the final days of the previous one.
December 10, 2020 -
The annual Defense authorization bill is filled with policy changes for non-defense agencies, including more than 50 focused on cybersecurity and a host of others address small business contracting.
December 07, 2020 -
House Democrats, good government groups and federal employee associations are urging congressional appropriators to include language blocking the president's Schedule F executive order in the next spending bill.
November 24, 2020 -
The vast majority of congressmen and senators who hold a key committee post or have a history of advocating for federal employees have won their reelection bids. Here's a roundup of the 2020 congressional races that matter to federal employees and contractors.
November 05, 2020 -
In an email to the workforce, acting Office of Personnel Management Director Michael Rigas told staff the administration would no longer devote "time and energy" to the proposed merger with the General Services Administration.
October 30, 2020 -
House Democrats are demanding the Trump administration immediately stop implementing the president's Schedule F executive order until they can determine the EO's full impact on the career federal workforce.
October 28, 2020 -
The National Treasury Employees Union is suing the Trump administration over the president's recent Schedule F executive order. Three House Democrats introduced new legislation intended to nullify the EO and protect career federal employees impacted by it.
October 27, 2020