Republican lawmakers sent two letters to government officials demanding more information and requesting further investigation into Hillary Clinton’s actions after the FBI Director announced he was not going to recommend criminal charges against her.
The House of Representatives passed a legislation package today that aims to tackle a myriad of issues from banning federal employees from watching pornography at work and using unsecured private email servers to conduct government business to extending the probationary period for some federal workers.
A letter released by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform gives credit to OPM rather than one of its contractors for discovering the data breach on the agency’s computer network that left the personal information of millions of current and former federal employees vulnerable.
A new policy states that the federal government may look at an employee’s social media accounts as part of conducting background investigations for a security clearance.
The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is curious to know how IRS Commissioner John Koskinen plans to pay for hiring 700 new employees after he told Congress his agency only had funds sufficient to maintain an “exception-only hiring policy.”
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has the IRS in its crosshairs again. This time, the Committee wants more information on the agency’s response (or lack thereof) to a 2015 data breach that left the personal data of hundreds of thousands of taxpayers at risk.
The Defense Department finally complied with the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform’s request for records regarding the Defense Secretary’s use of personal email, however, the Committee is now asking for unreacted copies of the records.
The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform fired off at least 25 letters this week to various federal agency leaders requesting information on how their agencies acquire and preserve art and artifacts in an effort to ensure taxpayer money is not being wasted on decorating federal buildings.
House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) recently sent a follow up letter to Defense Secretary Ashton Carter demanding information that the agency has thus far failed to provide regarding Carter’s use of personal email for conducting official business.
What changes, if any, should be made to the federal employee compensation and benefits package or how federal pay is determined each year? A Congressional committee is asking OPM for detailed information on these topics.
