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Winter Blasts Washington

Congress

9 GOP bills for federal employees to track in the new Congress

Republican lawmakers are reviving a flurry of bills targeting federal employees' telework options, pay and benefits, as well as agency relocations.

Workforce

Federal telework to remain a crucial issue well into 2025

Agency Oversight

Sen. Ernst bill would monitor federal employee computer use

Workforce

Telework, IT modernization emerge as early DOGE targets

Congress

First Look Ernst presses SBA for details of 7(a) lender approval

Congress

GOP senators, SBA butt heads over disaster loan funding

Contracting

Exclusive GOP lawmakers demand SBA postpone IT upgrades amid year-end contract spending surge

Christophe Megevand, of Schuman Cheese, New Jersey, judges the Rhined Swiss Style Cheese category in the opening day of the World Championship Cheese Contest at the Monona Terrace in Madison, Wis., Tuesday, March 6, 2018. (Steve Apps/Wisconsin State Journal via AP)

Federal Report

Whine, cheese make the return-to-office debate pungent

FILE - Convicted mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik, hands are seen in handcuffs as he arrives at the court room in a courthouse in Oslo, Aug. 24, 2012 . A decade after the 2011 bombing and shooting spree that left 77 dead, Breivik is seeking early release from a 21-year sentence — the maximum term in Norway. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File)

Federal Newscast

Feds convicted of sex crimes might lose their pensions

Federal Workforce

Workforce

Return-to-office review: The latest from Congress, agency leaders and employees

Small business, SBA, contracting

Workforce

First Look GOP senators seek IG review to see if SBA office space remains underutilized

federal telework

Congress

First Look Senate bill aims to set more federal telework reporting requirements

The Labor Department building

Federal Report

Labor employees show up to protest for more telework

Rachel Shonfield and Lashea Williams at FAIR Act rally

Federal Newscast

Lawmakers call telework protest 'hypocritical'

Small business, SBA, contracting

Congress

Exclusive Sen. Ernst hopeful about fixes to small business contracting

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Congress

Congress returns in full, as the clock begins to run out once again

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Federal Newscast

FDIC sex, work-culture scandals catch Sen. Ernst's attention, ire

Small Business Administration (SBA) building

Big Data

Better data, analysis gives SBA new optimism to recoup smaller COVID loans

Facilities/Construction

Ernst tells top ‘naughty list’ agencies to use or sell underutilized office space

Bank Collapse

Agency Oversight

IG to launch investigation into FDIC’s leadership climate, harassment allegations

Small business, SBA, contracting

Acquisition Policy

First Look Sen. Ernst to agencies: No more ‘easy As’ on the SBA scorecard

A man teleworks from home

Federal Newscast

Telework leads to feds 'phoning it in,' says senator seeking IG assessment

Jim Risch, Rob Portman, John Cornyn, Ted Cruz, Joni Ernst

Contracting

First Look Senate Republicans lead bill raising bar for SBA mentoring program