Oversight
Coast Guard evaluates hurricane impact on Gulf oil spill
Responders shift effort from killing the well to containing it, risking a temporary increase in the flow of oil.
Oversight
Coming Up Short
When voters start questioning your competence, it's like pulling a thread that can unravel an entire presidency.
Defense
House passes Defense policy bill
Chamber defeats civilian pay freeze amendment before passage.
Defense
Bureau of Land Management chief moves to MMS
Abbey will be put in charge of managing the announced division of MMS into three bureaus.
Defense
High-performing organizations fade into the A-76 sunset
Moratorium on public-private job competitions has taken away one incentive for the voluntary business reform process, report finds.
Defense
ICE steps up immigration enforcement efforts
John Morton and his agency have a lot to prove if comprehensive immigration reform is to become a reality.
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