Justice Department
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In today's Federal Newscast, a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee bill would create stronger laws to prevent political appointees from becoming career federal employees.
December 03, 2018 -
In today's Federal Newscast, Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA) and Mark Warner (D-VA) say federal agencies aren't proactively helping employees understand how or if they should pay taxes on moving expenses for their jobs.
November 20, 2018 -
In today's Federal Newscast, The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said it avoided handing out more than $4.5 billion in improper payments under one of its signature programs in fiscal 2018.
November 19, 2018 -
House Democrats anticipate a full slate of investigations and oversight actions once they gain the majority in January, but on at least one longstanding issue, the Justice Department's inspector general has given no indication of whether his office look into the matter.
November 16, 2018 -
Tracy Toulou joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin to talk about a partnership program between the Justice and Interior departments giving Native American tribes more access to crime data.
November 06, 2018 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the National Insider Threat Task Force introduced a new maturity framework to help teach agencies what makes a good program.
November 05, 2018 -
GSA’s Rob Coen took on a new role as OASIS program manager, while HUD’s Chad Cowan is the new acting assistant secretary for administration.
November 05, 2018 -
A lawsuit challenging whether President Donald Trump, under the Constitution, can benefit from foreign governments doing business with his Washington hotel can forward after a federal judge denied a Justice Department request to stay the lawsuit on Friday.
November 02, 2018 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Department of the Interior inspector general has referred one of their investigations into Secretary Ryan Zinke's actions to the Department of Justice for it to take over.
October 31, 2018 -
One year following the launch of Oversight.gov, a one-stop shop where users can reference more than 10,000 agency inspector general reports, the watchdog community sees an opportunity to grow the website.
October 05, 2018 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Government Accountability Office said the Postal Service's retiree health benefits fund has over $60 billion in unfunded liabilities.
October 02, 2018 -
The General Services Administration (GSA) has selected Ad Hoc and Fearless to upgrade the search.gov platform.
October 01, 2018 -
Federal CIO Suzette Kent said OMB will release an updated Trusted Internet Connections (TIC) policy in the coming weeks to help agencies more easily move to secure cloud services.
September 24, 2018 -
Some federal employees regularly undertake hard work against dangerous people and organizations. Federal Drive host Tom Temin highlights the efforts of two such individuals.
September 24, 2018 -
Faced with several long-term inspector general vacancies at key agencies, the number-two official of the IG community says the Trump administration has begun vetting candidates to fill those watchdog jobs.
September 21, 2018