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The team overseeing FedRAMP is urging lawmakers against supporting legislation that would restrict their flexibility in responding to emerging threats.
The Federal Labor Relations Authority faces a backlog of unfair labor practice complaints, which have built over the last four years without a Senate-confirmed general counsel to enforce them. The Biden administration's nominees for the FLRA say resolving the backlog will be their top priority.
Senators on both sides of the aisle agreed the president's nominees for the Merit Systems Protection Board are experienced, and they expressed a desire to restore a long-awaited quorum to the board. But Republicans also zeroed in on past social media posts from one of the nominees.
An aide for the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee said the panel is planning to hold a hearing on the Merit Systems Protection Board nominees in the coming weeks.
A Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee report on cybersecurity found that seven departments hadn't fixed serious deficiencies the committee identified two years earlier.
The Postal Service Reform Act, at least as it's currently written, proposes significant structural changes to the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program. An employee advocacy group worries the bill could raise premiums for federal employees and retirees.
The Government Accountability Office identified an additional 112 steps this year that agencies and Congress could take to eliminate overlap and duplication within an untold number of federal programs and initiatives.
No Republicans voted to advance the nomination of Kiran Ahuja, the president's choice to lead the Office of Personnel Management, to the full Senate.
Kiran Ahuja, the president's nominee to lead the Office of Personnel Management, said the agency isn't making progress on its biggest challenges, in large part, because of leadership turnover.
In today's Federal Newscast, Senators Gary Peters (D-Mich.) and John Thune (R-S.D.) introduced bipartisan legislation to help the government remain competitive in employing artificial intelligence talent.
Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee pressed OMB, CISA and FBI officials the SolarWinds attack and who is ultimately accountable for responding, mitigating the problems.
House Oversight and Reform Committee Chair Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) introduced new legislation designed to make presidential records more easily searchable and accessible.
President Joe Biden's choices to lead the Office of Management and Budget described several top priorities at their nomination hearing on Thursday, including a focus on creating a more diverse recruitment pool and inspiring more people to serve in the federal government.
Federal human capital challenges are the root cause behind two-thirds of the broad topics on the Government Accountability Office's biennial high-risk list. And while GAO removed one program from the list, some areas have regressed.