Senate confirmation hearings

House leadership wants to get on with a final appropriation agreement for fiscal 2022

For more, Bloomberg Government Deputy News Director Loren Duggan spoke to Federal Drive with Tom Temin.

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Judge Merrick Garland, nominee to be Attorney General, is sworn in at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Monday, Feb. 22, 2021 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Al Drago/Pool via AP)

New report suggests cutting down number of appointees who need Senate confirmation

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$100,000 ID-theft scheme earns VA employee a 46-month federal prison sentence

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FILE - In this Nov. 8, 2018 file photo, the U.S. Medicare Handbook is photographed in Washington. The Senate has confirmed President Joe Biden’s pick to run U.S. health insurance programs, putting in place a key player who’ll carry out his strategy for expanding affordable coverage and reining in prescription drug costs. Obama-era policy adviser Chiquita Brooks-LaSure will be the first Black woman to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, or CMS, which also administers children’s health insurance and the Affordable Care Act. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Senate confirms Brooks-LaSure to run health care programs

People

Anton Hajjar, Amber McReynolds, Ronald Stroman, Kiran Ahuja

Senate committee advances Ahuja’s nomination for OPM director

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Bicyclists ride past an inner perimeter of security fencing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Sunday, March 21, 2021, after portions of an outer perimeter of fencing were removed overnight to allow public access. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Will it ever be time for federal employees to return to their regular offices?

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Will Congress ever return to the normal budget process? Whatever that is

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OMB nominees pledge to break down federal hiring barriers

Management

Biden names Obama-era veteran to lead OPM

Workforce

Congress is delving deep into some nitty-gritty governmental issues

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TSA looking to hire thousands of new airport screeners

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How tweets poison a leader from the get-go

OMB nominee Neera Tanden learns the hard way how being anti on social media can come back to bite.

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Neera Tanden testifies before the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs committee on her nomination to become the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), during a hearing Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Leigh Vogel/Pool via AP)

IT modernization is a priority for Biden’s OMB pick, but she acknowledges funding challenges

The president also tapped Pam Coleman, the former personnel director for the state of New Mexico, to serve as the Office of Management and Budget’s point…

Management

Congress is busy, but not with bills necessarily

Congress

The riots and the inauguration behind it, Congress has barely settled into the next session. With only a few bills actually introduced, the Senate is mainly concerned with the Biden administration confirmations for the moment.