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Management

EPA looks to revamp U.S. school bus fleet

The EPA got $5 billion to use as grant funds for new school buses under the bipartisan infrastructure bill.

Contracting

FAR Council finalizes more stringent procurement rules under Buy American Act

Facilities/Construction

GSA wants to cast wider net for federal building architects

Cybersecurity

Energy Department looks to build cyber threat detection platform for electric grid

Federal Newscast

Now that the infrastructure bill has passed, the Senate turns its attention to the NDAA

Congress

Congress, you might say, is running out of runway

Congress

House leadership wants to get on with a final appropriation agreement for fiscal 2022

FILE - In this March 4, 2021, a bird flies near the U.S. Capitol dome at sunrise in Washington. The Republican fundraising committee dedicated to flipping the House in the 2022 midterm elections says it raised more than $105 million this year through September 2021. The record haul marks a 74% increase over last cycle and includes $25.8 million raised in the third quarter of the year. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Federal Report

Checking in on the year-end checklist, and it's not pretty

Loren Duggan

Congress

Noise from Capitol Hill is starting to sound like a broken record

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Congress

Several Transportation Department agencies back to work this morning following a brief shutdown

Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Janet Yellen

Congress

For Congress, and for government operations, it's a do-or-die week

Joe Manchin

Congress

The federal employee vaccination mandate has launched fresh arguments in Congress

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Federal Report

September is looking downright nutty

Loren Duggan

Congress

You can add Afghanistan to the list of things pushing Congress towards a continuing resolution

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden watch as a carry team moves a transfer case containing the remains of Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Kareem M. Nikoui, 20, of Norco, Calif., during a casualty return Sunday, Aug. 29, 2021, at Dover Air Force Base, Del. According to the Department of Defense, Nikoui died in an attack at Afghanistan's Kabul airport, along with 12 other U.S. service members. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Congress

Afghanistan situation has turned up the burner on an already boiling Congress

Lloyd Austin

Federal Newscast

House proposal would set aside money for defense contractors should another pandemic-like event occur

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Congress

Bipartisan infrastructure bill would end a pandemic credit for small businesses

From left, Rep. Ed Perlmutter, D-Colo., Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., and Rep. Joe Neguse, D-Colo., confer after a brief meeting of the House Rules Committee, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Congress

For federal employees, 3 items to watch in the bipartisan infrastructure bill

FILE - In this June 8, 2013 file photo, Chris Inglis, then deputy director of the National Security Agency testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. Inglis is being nominated as the government's first national cyber director at the Department of Homeland Security. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Federal Newscast

Bipartisan infrastructure bill includes funds to help federal cyber efforts

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Congress

A deep dive into where Congress is at on the infrastructure bill

Federal Acquisition, GSA

Tom Temin Commentary

Straight talk from the Marine Corps