Management
Green Gaps
Making eco-friendly IT a reality at agencies requires changing behavior as well as policy.
Oversight
Obama regulatory chief draws skepticism from GOP House members
Cass Sunstein defends new review of rules and promises potential for job losses will be factored into cost-benefit analyses.
Oversight
Agencies learn from missteps during last year’s flooding in Nashville
Weather Service and Army Corps of Engineers officials agree with report’s call for better coordination of rainfall forecast communication and mapping.
Oversight
EPA tops list of pending regulations under review
White House tracking of agency rule-making shows 130 proposals under evaluation as President Obama launches effort to weed out inefficiencies.
Oversight
SEC transparency faulted by watchdog group
Project on Government Oversight assembles previously unpublished reports examining employee misconduct and retaliation against whistleblowers.
Oversight
Interior announces new structure for regulating deepwater drilling
Third reorganization in response to BP oil spill aimed at fixing a bureau long torn by resource development, environmental safety and revenue collecting.
Pay & Benefits
Federal workers’ compensation payments called wasteful
Sen. Susan Collins requests GAO probe of reports that retirees in their 90s continue collecting under the Federal Employees’ Compensation Act.
Oversight
EEOC reports record rise in bias complaints, progress in trimming backlog
Agency says it collected the highest level of monetary relief obtained through the administrative process.
Oversight
State Department revises its gender-neutral passport wording
Surprised by conservative criticism of redesigned application’s use of ‘parent’ in place of ‘mother’ and ‘father,’ Clinton intervenes with compromise.
Oversight
Chamber of Commerce: Regulatory agencies overwhelmed
Business leaders criticize health care and financial reform laws and say SEC, HHS and Labor cannot handle new workload.
Oversight
National taxpayer advocate looped into debate on repealing health care law
Questions about IRS’ capacity to administer complex new law are released just as House Republicans launch bid to undo Obama’s reforms.
Defense
Inspector general for Afghanistan relieves two deputies
Under fire from lawmakers, chief auditor of U.S. spending in war zone says he’s bringing in new blood to improve efforts to curb waste and overspending.
Oversight
Oil drilling regulators could hasten industry return to deepwater operations
Ocean energy bureau’s announcement could allow resumption of drilling within weeks by qualifying companies whose permits were suspended after BP spill.
Managing Technology
Green Gaps
Making eco-friendly IT a reality at agencies requires changing behavior as well as policy.
Oversight
Dodaro confirmed as comptroller general
Senate on final night of 111th Congress approves acting head of GAO as permanent.
Oversight
Regulatory agencies have stepped up enforcement, study says
OMB Watch reports increased inspections, fines and warning letters from Obama appointees monitoring consumer health, worker safety and the environment.
Oversight
Paper Social Security checks will become obsolete in May
Treasury announces final rules for electronic delivery expected to reduce theft and save $1 billion over 10 years.
Defense
State Department review promises transparency, civilian ‘face’
Pentagon-style quadrennial assessment sets agenda for multiagency coordination of foreign aid and crisis response.
Oversight
Solutions offered to reduce delays in confirming presidential appointees
Brookings scholars examine why previous reform proposals have been stalled by congressional partisanship and paperwork burdens.
Pay & Benefits