Oversight
Performance.gov site to go public soon
Recent budget cuts will hamper effort to improve the website’s functionality, though, OMB’s Zients tells a Senate panel.
News
GOP senators vow to block consumer bureau nominee
Resisting Obama’s pick of Elizabeth Warren, they want a board rather than a director to run new agency to serve as a ‘check.’
Oversight
White House gets down to cases on selling excess properties
OMB releases state-by-state map of 12,000 unneeded federal sites along with legislation for a BRAC-like property board.
Defense
Pentagon breaks up Joint Forces Command
Defense secretary’s move to transfer half the jobs in Virginia facility beginning this summer is part of plan to save $400 billion.
News
Cost estimates don’t help bid to move FTC offices
Plan that would free up space for art gallery could require $270 million for new Federal Trade Commission building, CBO says.
Features
Into the Limelight
After years of working behind the scenes, agency inspectors general are front and center in a high-profile battle against waste, fraud and abuse.
Oversight
Inspector general backs NOAA in climate-change dispute
Review of internal e-mails in response to Sen. Inhofe’s charges finds no evidence that federal scientists manipulated data or bypassed peer review.
Oversight
Bill to move agency pits FTC against National Gallery
Transportation Committee-approved plan would remove trade commission from 74-year-old headquarters to save money and expand art exhibit space.
News
ICE agent killed, second wounded in Mexico
Attack by still unidentified shooters adds to series of violent incidents in struggle against drug trafficking.
Oversight
IRS budget would allow for thousands of new hires
Proposed boost in enforcement operations likely to collide with Republican calls for reducing tax collection budget.
Oversight
GSA budget focuses on selling property, green buildings and citizen IT
Staff disappointed over absent funds for design of new federal center in Missouri.
Oversight
House panel pressures GSA to speed sale of excess properties
Half-empty Old Post Office in Washington made centerpiece in call to reduce surplus federal real estate.
Oversight
House Republicans pace their rollout of regulatory review
Oversight panel chairman stresses need to listen to job creators while Democrats call for proceeding directly to specifics.
Oversight
Obama’s chief regulatory reviewer expands guidance to agencies
OIRA head Sunstein gives 100-day deadline for draft regulatory assessment strategies, encourages public participation.
Oversight
Agency buy-in called key to success of Government Performance Act
Sen. Mark Warner helps push recommendations for standardized data to gauge program effectiveness.
Features
Open Secrets
The nation’s spy agency steps into the public eye, releasing documents and airing candid assessments of past operations.
Oversight
Spy agency steps into the public eye
The CIA is taking open government efforts seriously, releasing documents and airing candid assessments of past operations.
News
Freshman subcommittee chairman focuses on federal real estate
Calif. Republican Jeff Denham links improving management of federal properties to reducing debt and creating jobs.
Oversight