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House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) sent letters to 23 agencies asking for details about the number of political appointees they've converted to career federal employees. Meanwhile, the topic of "burrowing in" is gaining special attention from Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.
The House Oversight and Government Reform committee passed a series of bills during a July 12 markup hearing aimed at improving and reforming digital record-keeping practices and making federal agencies and oversight more efficient and accessible.
Two postal reform bills passed the House Oversight and Government Reform committee, although not without opposition or concerns.
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee interrogated three federal executives about their firearms management, or lack thereof.
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is asking GAO to review how the U.S. Digital Services prioritizes programs as well as how agencies are implementing the CIO authorities under FITARA.
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee wants to get a closer look at how many political appointees the Office of Personnel Management has converted to career employees over the past nine months.
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.
Two years after the administration set up two new federal "start-ups" to help agencies adopt more innovative technology, some in the public and private sectors say the U.S. Digital Service and 18F still operate in their own silos, and there is little communication from the organizations as they embark on new projects.
The Government Accountability Office will tell House lawmakers Friday that 18F is losing money and doesn’t expect to make enough revenue to cover its costs until 2019, according to testimony obtained by Federal News Radio.
The 8½ inch floppy disk held up at the recent House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing was good theater, but it doesn’t tell the entire story of the state of old technology in the government.
Despite a reminder from the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, federal agencies haven't reviewed their data on Social Security numbers in nearly a decade.
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is particularly concerned by a penetration test the Homeland Security Department performed on the Social Security Administration's IT systems last summer, when testers gained access to personally identifiable information while they were inside. SSA did not share the findings of that report with its inspector general.
Debra D'Agostino, a founding partner with the Federal Practice Group, details the strange history of personnel practices for airport security screeners.
Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), chairman of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said he was warming up to the idea of the fund, but wants assurances that the money will be spent wisely and receive a return on investment.