Claire McCaskill

office of personnel management office

‘OPM sent a signal’: Still no final regulations on 2017 administrative leave law

OPM said the holdup on issuing final regulations is due to a conflict with rest and recuperation leave, but proponents of the legislation voiced frustrations…

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A member-less MSPB more likely as Senate committee fails to clear pending nominees

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Elijah Cummings

Expect ‘profound change’ with House oversight’s approach to federal workforce, government reform

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Election workers Mark Bezanson, left, and Julie Olson dump ballots collected earlier in the day from drop boxes onto a table for sorting at the King County Elections office, Monday, Nov. 5, 2018, in Renton, Wash. Voters in Washington all vote only by mail. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Multiple House, Senate seats critical to feds change hands in 2018 midterms

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Plagued with harassment, staffing shortages, FEMA vows to invest more in its people

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Inspectors general fear staff cuts, less oversight under Trump budget plan

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Claire McCaskill

Senator worried about potential budget cuts to several IG offices

A new report from Sen. McCaskill’s office says the Trump administration’s 2019 budget would cut five Inspectors General office’s budgets and give nine…

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Senate Finance Committee member Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., questions Alex Azar during a Senate Finance Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2018, to consider Azar's nomination to be Secretary of Health and Human Services. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Senate Democrats warn of ‘food fight’ over government reorganization without legislative buy-in

The Senate took its turn to question the Trump administration about its government reorganization proposals and offered a much different take than members…

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FILE- In this Monday, Oct. 5, 2015 file photo, Residents of a lakeside neighborhood walk across Overcreek Bridge by the remains of a failed dam in Columbia, S.C. Officials say the structure beneath a road collapsed Monday afternoon following days of heavy rain, nearly emptying a lake in a few minutes. No one was injured. South Carolina had problems with crumbling roads and bridges and old drinking water systems and dams long before the historic floods of the past week. Now the state faces what will likely be hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars of bills to fix washed out roads and bridges and destroyed dams. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves, File)

Infrastructure stakeholders want better agency communication, no sunset from FAST Act reforms

Federal infrastructure projects have stalled around the country due to cumbersome permitting processes and funding challenges, which is why a bipartisan law was enacted two years ago to speed things up. Now the authors are hoping to amend that legislation with the Federal Permitting Reform and Jobs Act.

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