Oversight
Play of the Day: The First Lady is Going to Africa
Melania Trump will head to Ghana, Malawi, Kenya and Egypt this week.
Oversight
Watchdog: EPA Hosts Too Many Foreign Nationals In Certain Fellowships
Program run along with the National Academy of Sciences and nonprofits should make U.S. citizenship a requirement, IG says.
Oversight
Play of the Day: The Upgraded Presidential Limousine
Presidential Donald Trump's vehicle is getting some new features.
Management
Lawmakers Advance Legislation Raising Penalties for Appropriations Violations
A bill would prescribe how agencies should punish employees who violate the Anti-Deficiency Act.
Oversight
FEMA Director Spent $151K of Taxpayers' Money on Personal Trips
Long has agreed to reimburse the agency for his expenses, which are detailed in an IG report released by a House Democrat.
Oversight
Bill Passed By House Would Expand Subpoena Power of Inspectors General
Long-sought authority would allow interviews with former employees, contractors.
Oversight
House Passes Bill to Standardize, Centralize Grant Data
Without machine-readable reports, waste will continue, lawmaker says.
Oversight
Play of the Day: Donald Trump, George Washington and a Press Conference
The current president somehow brought the first president into the Brett Kavanaugh conversation.
Oversight
Play of the Day: Trump's Day at the United Nations
The president got some unintentional laughs during his speech to the body.
Oversight
Play of the Day: Rod Rosenstein Was Fired. Or Resigned. Or Not.
Confusion was the only constant on Monday regarding the Justice Department official.
Management
Lawmakers Urge Education to Rescind Unilaterally-Imposed Union Contract
Three Democratic senators asked Secretary Betsy DeVos to comply with a preliminary FLRA finding that the department’s actions last spring constituted an unfair labor practice.
Oversight
Play of the Day: The President Wants Another Wall… in Africa
President Donald Trump suggests a wall in the Sahara to help the migration crisis in Europe.
Oversight
Democratic Senator Questions Mulvaney’s Hatch Act Compliance
Warren sends offices of Government Ethics and the Special Counsel a letter on the acting consumer bureau director's speech to GOP donors.
Oversight
Play of the Day: Putin's Mind Games
According to a new book, the former KGB operative knows how to manipulate President Trump.
Oversight
Legal Group Seeks 18 Agencies’ Records on Official Trips to Political Events
CREW files FOIA requests on “mixed travel” that could violate Hatch Act.
Oversight
Congressional Research Service Serves Up Once-Scarce Reports
Portal launched to comply with new law, but some studies remain elusive.
Oversight
Play of the Day: Trump Visits The Carolinas After Hurricane Florence
The storm was "one of the wettest we've seen, from the standpoint of water."
Oversight
House Republicans Introduce Bill to Help Trump's Reorganization
Legislation mirrors a similar measure introduced in the Senate, although appropriators have already begun to block specific proposals.
Management
Senator Demands Details on HHS’s Union Impasse Declaration
Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., accuses agency of bad-faith "surface" bargaining.
Oversight