James Lankford
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The administration will release more details about its management agenda later this month with a focus on three outcomes.
March 13, 2018 -
The governmentwide average time to hire new employees has creep up slightly every year since 2012.
March 01, 2018 -
Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) has cataloged some of the federal government's spending on usual or duplicative programs through the annual release of "Federal Fumbles," and says he'd like to see more oversight from Congress and agencies themselves.
January 24, 2018 -
Margaret Weichert, the president's nominee to the deputy director for management at the Office of Management and Budget, easily earned approval from members of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee during Thursday's nomination hearing.
December 14, 2017 -
Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) wants to launch a three-pronged attack on government spending through greater accountability and reform of the budget and oversight processes.
December 07, 2017 -
This report highlights $474 billion in wasteful and inefficient spending.
November 27, 2017 -
Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz says the hope is to spin off a page that looks at disaster assistance funds.
October 10, 2017 -
The Senate may consider raising the value of all federal buyouts from $25,000 to $40,000, though it's unlikely to happen this year.
October 04, 2017 -
The Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee will consider more than a dozen bills impacting the federal workforce this week. Here are a few worth watching.
October 03, 2017 -
Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) introduced new legislation that would increase the maximum VSIP from $25,000 to $40,000 for both federal civilian and defense employees.
September 29, 2017 -
Communication and transparency during the government reorganization process is going well for some, and not for others.
September 13, 2017 -
Agency leaders are reviewing tens of thousands of comments from their employees and the public on ways to make government more effective and efficient. In speaking with their workforces about their ideas, most leaders say the focus has generally been on how the agency can better deliver the mission and services to the public, not on forthcoming personnel cuts.
June 15, 2017 -
Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.), the ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs and Federal Management, said she and subcommittee and Chairman James Lankford (R-Okla) will make civil service reform a major focus this year. She and Lankford are looking for ideas that attack the root causes of some of the most challenging problems facing the federal workforce.
May 11, 2017 -
President Donald Trump's pick to run the Central Intelligence Agency's legal department earned bipartisan support on Wednesday after promising to address the cybersecurity concerns voiced by the intelligence community's leadership.
April 27, 2017 -
Thousands of rules come out each year from regulatory agencies that place a large burden on the economy. Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.), chairman of the subcommittee on regulatory affairs and federal management, joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin to discuss why regulatory reform is needed.
March 20, 2017