Management

Email Compliance Will Be a Tall Order Without More Resources

Federal records managers lack the authority and tools to meet digital requirements.

Oversight

House and Senate GOP Budgets Are Miles Apart

Senate budget offers no relief for defense hawks, ignores House’s entitlement reforms.

Oversight

Senate Republicans Go After Federal Retirement Benefits, Too

Chamber’s budget blueprint calls for $170 billion in savings through the federal workforce to make government employment resemble the private sector.

Oversight

McConnell: No Trafficking Bill, No Lynch Vote

Republicans say they won't bring the attorney general up for confirmation until Democrats relent.

Oversight

Play of the Day: In This Corner... Mitt Romney?

The late-night favorite and erstwhile candidate is lacing up the gloves for charity.

Management

Getting the Living Off Social Security’s Deceased List May Take Legislation

Alabama woman testifies on being reduced to poverty after erroneous designation.

Oversight

John Boehner's GOP Budget Presser Turned Into One About Benghazi

The House speaker gave a press conference Tuesday morning on the just-released GOP plan, but he quickly turned his attention to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Oversight

GOP Budget: Higher Pension Contributions for Feds, Much Lower Spending for Civilian Agencies

Republicans suggest familiar cuts to federal employees and agencies to achieve $5.5 trillion in savings.

Oversight

Democrats and Republicans Agree: The Secret Service Is Not Working

Members of the House Appropriations Committee grilled the agency’s director on Tuesday about a string of security failures.

Oversight

The Big Winner in the House GOP Budget? The Pentagon

Plan leaves sequestration in place, but adds money for Defense in accounts technically considered emergency funding.

Oversight

Three Obstacles that Threaten to Derail the Republican Budget

A plan that actually can pass both chambers will be hard to write, and very easy to mess up.

Oversight

Play of the Day: Where Has Putin Been For 10 Days?

Seth Meyers has a plastic surgery theory… but not the one you're thinking.

Nextgov

Coast Guard's Fingerprint System Used to Nab Terrorist Suspects is Flawed, OIG Says

Personnel on Coast Guard ships use handheld devices to collect intercepted persons' fingerprints and images of their faces, as part of the Biometrics at Sea System.

Management

White House Calls Loretta Lynch Delay 'Unconscionable'

The administration made it clear Monday that the Senate delay in attorney general confirmation has been "disappointing."

Oversight

Congressional Outlook: A Week of Partisan Votes and Bad Blood

Confirmation vote for attorney general nominee Loretta Lynch is expected to be close.

Oversight

You Can't See Congress's Emails

If Hillary Clinton had stayed in the Senate, none of this would be happening.