Patty Murray

Senate plans to take back $290M in TMF funding in 2024

Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), chairman of the Financial Services and General Government subcommittee, said the debt ceiling caps required cuts to capital…

Budget

VA’s new EHR hits another outage, as agency reconsiders FY 2024 request for project

IT Modernization

Senate Democrats join calls for pause on new VA EHR rollouts until metrics improve

Veterans Affairs

VA EHR linked to veterans ‘fatally harmed,’ senators say, but agency still sees way forward for project

Veterans Affairs

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VBA sees automation tools as ‘game-changer’ to keep up with record workload

Veterans Affairs

FILE - This Aug. 2, 2018 file photo shows the U.S. Food and Drug Administration building behind FDA logos at a bus stop on the agency's campus in Silver Spring, Md. The Food and Drug Administration has issued a negative review of a closely watched experimental drug for the debilitating illness known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. The review comes ahead of a meeting this week for outside experts to vote on the drug for ALS. The drug has been the focal point of a lobbying campaign by patients, their families and lawmakers. FDA reviewers said Monday, March 28, 2022 the single study from Amylyx Pharmaceuticals was “not persuasive” due to missing data, errors in enrolling patients and other problems. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Deadline approaches to pass bill affecting employment for 3,500 FDA workers

Congress

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VA scraps last EHR go-live date in FY 2022, amid IG accounts of patient harm

Veterans Affairs

With deployments ramping up next year, senators seek more transparency on VA EHR

Veterans Affairs

VA resuming EHR deployments in March, restructuring management of massive project

Veterans Affairs

Air Force faces first test from Congress in divesting from legacy systems

Air Force

New mechanism for VA to screen patients, employees for coronavirus

Federal Newscast

A portion of President Donald Trump's first proposed budget, focusing on the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and released by the Office of Management and Budget, is photographed in Washington, Wednesday, March 15, 2017. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)

HUD ‘moving quickly’ with data-driven analysis to spend $3B in pandemic funding

New pulse survey data from the Census Bureau will supplement other sources that HUD has relied on for years to allocate more than $3 billion in CARES Act…

Big Data

GSA takes aim at those submitting fake comments on proposed regulations

In today’s Federal Newscast, the General Services Administration launched a bid to ensure fairness in an important part of federal rule-making.

Federal Newscast

Lawmakers ‘extremely concerned’ about impacts of EEOC’s proposed official time policy

Workforce Rights/Governance

Leadership on two House committees are skeptical of a proposed rule from the EEOC, which would reverse a 40-year-old policy allowing union representatives official time to prepare discrimination complaints on behalf of their coworkers.