House Oversight and Reform Committee
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Open records watchdogs in Congress say excessive fees, delayed deadlines and overuse of redactions are harming the Freedom of Information Act process.
January 11, 2016 -
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will soon consider at least three separate bills on punishments for the Senior Executive Service and career appointees accused of misconduct or poor performance.
January 08, 2016 -
The Army and GSA say most families who've been waiting months for promised childcare subsidies have been compensated. But several other aspects of the Army's Fee Assistance Program will take months more to correct.
January 07, 2016 -
The Office of Special Counsel, Merit Systems Protection Board and Office of Government Ethics haven't received authorization from Congress since 2007. But Congress says it wants to consider additional legislation and statutory changes before it issues new reauthorizations.
December 16, 2015 -
Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) is calling for the removal of the Office of Personnel Management's CIO Donna Seymour, after the agency's Office of Inspector General found that the Office of Procurement Operations mismanaged a contract it awarded for identity and credit monitoring services for early victims of the cyber breach.
December 10, 2015 -
The Office of Personnel Management analyzed data from the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey and found specific ways for agencies to improve employee satisfaction.
December 09, 2015 -
Sonny Bhagowalia, Treasury’s chief information officer, said over the last year the department has closed 17 core data centers and reduced the time to deliver IT capabilities by more than 60 percent.
November 23, 2015 -
Cask LLC Director Mark Larson and AFEI President David Cheseborough will discuss how FITARA is helping agencies improve transparency and the efficiency of federal IT projects. November 17, 2016
November 16, 2015 -
GSA, Treasury and Transportation highlighted to House lawmakers progress each has made in improving their individual processes for managing and overseeing networks, systems and data under the Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act.
November 09, 2015 -
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee released the Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act scorecard and the governmentwide average is a “D.” Lawmakers and OMB expect agency scores to improve across the four metrics.
November 05, 2015 -
Budget constraints, IT management issues and a tight timeline could thwart the Census Bureau's ambitious redesign plan for the 2020 count. The bureau said it could save more than $5 billion during the 2020 Census cycle. Census' last count was the most expensive ever in U.S. history.
November 04, 2015 -
Rep. Will Hurd, the chairman of the Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Information Technology, plans to release the first set of grades for agencies on how they are implementing the Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act, and the news isn’t good for many agencies.
November 03, 2015 -
The resolution to impeach IRS Commissioner John Koskinen won't pass a House vote, said Bill Cowden, an attorney with the Federal Practice Group and former senior trial attorney for the Justice Department.
November 03, 2015 -
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), and 18 other members of his committee, introduced a resolution calling for IRS Commissioner John Koskinen's impeachment. Koskinen said his agency has made some progress in improving accountability and communication in the wake of IRS scandals.
October 27, 2015 -
Some members of industry say the Government Publishing Office is taking advantage of a loophole in Title 44 of the U.S. Code, which lets GPO produce secure credential cards as a core agency function.
October 21, 2015