Oversight
Senator questions Medicare agency’s use of Defense audit unit
Iowa Republican wants to know why the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services still contracts with the beleaguered DCAA.
Defense
Final Senate vote looming on war supplemental
House version of the supplemental includes $500 million in border security funding not contained in Senate bill.
Oversight
House takes up F-35 bill
The Pentagon adamantly opposes the alternate engine program and the White House has threatened a veto over it.
Oversight
Navy wants to establish a preferred supplier program
Service seeks industry input for creating designation aimed at lowering costs and increasing efficiency.
Oversight
Minerals Management Service chief steps down
Resignation comes as the agency is under criticism for oversight failures that contributed to the Gulf oil spill.
Oversight
Burning Question: On federal spending, is it time to hit the gas or the brakes?
Lawmakers and Obama administration officials apparently are of two minds on the issue.
Defense
Stage is being set for congressional border security battle
Provisions adding funding for border efforts could prove contentious during conference negotiations on the wartime supplemental spending bill.
Defense
New counterterror strategy to spell out Obama vision
Administration's plan seeks an international order that promotes peace, security and opportunity.
Defense
Homeland Security replaces head of Federal Protective Service
Gary Schenkel had been under fire from Capitol Hill after a series of reports uncovered security gaps at federal buildings.
Oversight
Senator questions cost of senior executives’ education
OPM does not collect data on how many employees participate in training program, or how much it costs the government annually.
Defense
F-35 engine battle revs up
Defense secretary makes final appeal to lawmakers to cancel unwanted engine program, while GE head circulates letter of support for the F-35.
Oversight
Salazar: MMS has 'turned the ship'
Interior chief says department will have zero tolerance for ethical lapses at Minerals Management Service.
Oversight
Race and gender influence TSP enrollment
Minorities are about 5 percent less likely than nonminorities to participate in the government’s 401(k)-style retirement plan.
Oversight
Senators suggest a federal pay freeze to help fund wars
GOP proposals aim to recoup costs partly by holding salaries steady and cracking down on tax delinquent government workers.
Defense
Dispute over oversight powers stalls intel policy bill
Democrats are trying to work around a threat to veto language allowing GAO to audit intelligence agencies.
Defense
Washington officials honor incoming and outgoing Coast Guard leaders
Adm. Robert Papp Jr. takes the helm of the service; former commandant Adm. Thad Allen heads to the Gulf.
Oversight
Report finds interagency contracts rife with inefficiencies
Agencies spend $60 billion annually on multiple award and enterprisewide contracts that often are duplicative.
Defense
Administration gets weak marks on spill
Poll says only 31 percent see Obama doing an excellent or good job dealing with the Gulf of Mexico disaster.
Oversight
MMS employees in Louisiana admit accepting gifts from oil and gas companies
IG report also highlights drug use and sharing of pornography on work computers.
Oversight