Joni Ernst

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

Lawmakers say taking SBA’s certification portal offline in the final months of fiscal 2024 would cause problems for firms with year-end contracting deadlines.

Contracting

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)

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

Federal Report

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)

Feds convicted of sex crimes might lose their pensions

Federal Newscast

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

Workforce

First Look

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

Workforce

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First Look

Senate bill aims to set more federal telework reporting requirements

Congress

Labor employees show up to protest for more telework

Federal Report

Rachel Shonfield and Lashea Williams at FAIR Act rally

Lawmakers call telework protest ‘hypocritical’

Federal Newscast

Exclusive

Sen. Ernst hopeful about fixes to small business contracting

Congress

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

Congress

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

Federal Newscast

Small Business Administration (SBA) building

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

SBA Administrator Isabel Guzman told House and Senate small business committee lawmakers recently the agency would reverse course and do more to force…

Big Data

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

Senate Small Business & Entrepreneurship Committee Ranking Member Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) says agencies still aren’t making effective use of their office space.

Facilities/Construction

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

Agency Oversight

House and Senate lawmakers sent letters to the FDIC demanding documents and answers to questions about settlements and investigations into sexual harassment allegations against the agency’s leadership.