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Biden pick for Pentagon acquisitions role vows to cut weapons system costs
Radha Plumb, President Joe Biden’s nominee to be the Pentagon’s No. 2 acquisitions and sustainment official, pledged to find ways to bring down the costs of sustaining the systems it buys.
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Budget
Energy Department offices fail to spend over $14 billion in allocated funds
These massive rollovers happen because funds appropriated to EM and NNSA by Congress are available until they are expended. But will they get used?
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Biden presses for chips legislation in meeting with Pentagon’s No. 2 and Lockheed
President Joe Biden met virtually on Monday with the chief executive of Lockheed Martin and other companies to spur forward a bill to boost semiconductor production in the United States.
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Homeland Security, Justice officials urge Congress to expand counter-drone authority
Federal law enforcement agencies asked Congress for more authority to counter domestic drones.
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Biden praises Guard response to Jan. 6 attack in fiery anniversary speech
The commander-in-chief's remarks came on the one-year anniversary of the attack.
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Congress’ doctor wants ‘maximal telework’ amid virus surge
The seven-day average rate of infection at the Capitol's testing center has grown from less than 1% to more than 13%.
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FY22 defense bill gives feds parental bereavement leave, makes changes at the Pentagon
Feds will receive two weeks of paid leave to grieve the death of a child, under the fiscal 2022 National Defense Authorization Act.
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Congress passes defense policy bill with budget boost, military justice reforms
After months of debate and weeks of angst, the Senate has sent its annual defense bill to the president.
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Collins joins push to send federal workers back to in-person
Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, joined 43 Republican senators in calling for federal agencies to immediately transition to in-person work.
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Federal labor nominees pass Senate committee
President Joe Biden's three nominees to the Federal Labor Relations Authority passed Senate committee vote by a slim margin.
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Congress passes bill to protect feds serving abroad
The law solidifies U.S jurisdiction over instances where a federal employee is hurt or killed while working abroad.
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Man surrenders after claiming to have bomb near Capitol
A man sitting in a pickup truck outside the Library of Congress told police on Thursday that he had a bomb, prompting a massive law enforcement response.
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Senate approves bill to make Juneteenth a federal holiday
The Senate passed a bill Tuesday that would make Juneteenth, or June 19th, a federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States.
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Leak of billionaires’ tax data draws GOP outcry over privacy
Republicans in Congress are alarmed by the leak of confidential IRS data to the investigative news organization ProPublica.
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Congress implores State Department leadership to tackle sexual harassment
The number of employees reporting sexual harassment and assault at the State Department have increased in recent years.
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Slate of bills to protect feds and transparency considered in committee
House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y. led the House introduction of five of the six bills designed to protect whistleblowers and those that investigate their allegations and to increase transparency of government operations.
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Lawsuits over how 2020 census was conducted near conclusions
Lawsuits that challenged Trump administration census orders violated the constitutional and civil rights of Latinos, Asian Americans and non-U.S. citizens.
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Guard deploys immediate reaction force at Capitol after officer, suspect, killed in attack on police there
About 2,300 National Guard members are currently deployed to the region on security missions.
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The ‘Fire Fauci Act’? Here’s what QAnon’s favorite Republican doesn’t understand about federal employment law
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has a position and pay level that is protected by federal employment law.
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Congress seeks to guarantee safety of federal vehicles
Agencies would be prohibited from leasing or selling vehicles from the federal fleet that have active recalls.
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Biden Cabinet near complete but hundreds of jobs still open
Biden has about 1,250 federal positions that require Senate confirmation, ranging from the head of the obscure Railroad Retirement Board to more urgent department positions such as assistant and deputy secretaries.
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Watchdog: Routes given to census takers were often confusing
Only 21.6 percent of area census office managers were satisfied with the accuracy and efficiency of how cases were assigned.
New bill aims to lift union restrictions at the VA
Medical staff at the Department of Veterans Affairs would have expanded union protections under legislation introduced in the House and Senate.
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Federal employee protections included in new COVID relief bill
Federal employees exposed to or dealing with the fallout from COVID-19 will have more options under the just-passed legislation.
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Senate confirms Ohio Rep. Fudge as housing secretary
Rep. Marcia Fudge's confirmation, 66-34, comes as the Senate is approving a slate of President Joe Biden’s nominees.
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Congress OKs $1.9T virus relief bill in win for Biden, Dems
A Congress riven along party lines approved a landmark $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill Wednesday, as President Joe Biden and Democrats claimed a triumph on a bill that marshals the government’s spending might against twin pandemic and economic crises that have upended a nation.
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