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FILE - In this July 24, 2014 file photo, Sloan Gibson testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. A suicide hotline operated by the Department of Veterans Affairs allowed crisis calls to go into voicemail, and callers did not always receive immediate assistance, according to a report by the agency's internal watchdog. Deputy VA Secretary Gibson said in a statement that the agency is hiring more staff for the crisis hotline, which is located in Canandaigua, New York. (AP Photo, File)

Agency Oversight

VA asks Congress to repeal cuts to agency's award and incentive spending

Veterans Affairs Deputy Secretary Sloan Gibson wrote to Congress this week, asking that it begin work immediately to repeal cuts to the agency's award and incentive spending. Congress cut VA's performance bonus budget by about 20 percent next year to cover opioid-addiction treatment programs for veterans.

Congress

Lawmakers punt major VA issues to next Congress

Agency Oversight

Indecision, poor leadership led to $888 million overruns on VA hospital, IG says

Workforce Rights/Governance

Groups praise VA bill for 'breakthrough' whistleblower protections

Congress

Congress skeptical of VA's $5 million payouts to settle employee disciplinary cases

Congress

House passes new VA accountability, appeals reform legislation

Congress

House committee subpoenas VA for failed construction project documents

SES

Workforce

Repackaged House bill extends same controversial VA firing procedures to all SES

FILE - In this April 2, 2015, file photo, a visitor leaves the Sacramento Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Rancho Cordova, Calif. The number of veterans seeking health care but ending up on waiting lists of one month or more is 50 percent higher now than it was a year ago when a scandal over false records and long wait times wracked the Department of Veterans Affairs, The New York Times reported Saturday, June 20, 2015, online ahead of its Sunday editions. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

Workforce Rights/Governance

DoJ says key VA Choice provision for SES appeals is unconstitutional

Congress

Accountability and reform omnibus will create 'new VA'

Dr. David Shulkin takes part in a panel discussion at Donna Karan's Urban Zen Initiative Day Three, a wellness forum aimed at merging Eastern and Western medicine in order to improve patient care, in New York City, Wednesday, May 16, 2007. (AP Photo/Andy Kropa)

Congress

GAO's veteran wait time reports differ vastly from VA's

Management

VA board of senior health execs would review disciplinary appeals

Agency Oversight

VA proposes reduced punishments for VBA leaders

The seal a fixed to the front of the Department of Veterans Affairs building in Washington, Friday, June 21, 2013. The number of military suicides is nearly double that of a decade ago when the U.S. was just a year into the Afghan war and hadnt yet invaded Iraq. While the pace is down slightly this year, it remains worryingly high. The U.S. military and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) acknowledge the grave difficulties facing active-duty and former members of the armed services who have been caught up in the more-than decade-long American involvement in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Agency Oversight

VA watchdog finds suicide hotline sent callers to voicemail

Robert McKenrick, Diana Rubens, Kimberly Graves, Antione Waller, Linda Haliday, Danny Pummill

Management

VA's struggles with MSPB open door for SES oversight changes

Robert McDonald

Management

MSPB reverses punishment for third VA senior executive

Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald attends as a luncheon at the National Press Club in Washington, Friday, Nov. 6, 2015. (AP Photo/Sait Serkan Gurbuz)

SES

Concerns grow over VA's proposal to put SES MSPB rights up for grabs

Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald/AP

Congress

5 percent boost to VA spending in 2017 might not be enough

FILE - In this April 2, 2015, file photo, a visitor leaves the Sacramento Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Rancho Cordova, Calif. A new program that was supposed to get patients off waiting lists at Veterans Affairs medical centers by letting them switch to private-sector doctors is proving to be an even bigger disappointment than initially thought. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

Congress

Lawmakers pan VA disability system, despite cuts in claims backlog

Sloan Gibson

Congress

VA tired of waiting for IG disciplinary reviews, starts separate evaluations

Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C. speaks about the federal prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2015, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Burr and three other powerful Republican senators are pushing for new restrictions on President Barack Obama's ability to transfer terror suspects out of the federal prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Congress

Lawmakers target misconduct at senior executive level

FILE - In this April 2, 2015, file photo, a visitor leaves the Sacramento Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Rancho Cordova, Calif. A new program that was supposed to get patients off waiting lists at Veterans Affairs medical centers by letting them switch to private-sector doctors is proving to be an even bigger disappointment than initially thought. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

Congress

New VA Choice plan earns cautious praise from Congress

William Fry

Agency Oversight

Watchdog, whistleblower on wishlist for VA IG nominee