Michael Horowitz

IG backs legislation to keep important oversight tool alive

As an acute threat, the pandemic departed a couple of years ago. The Pandemic Response Accountability Committee (PRAC) has another 18 months to do the same.

Management

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Eternal question: What to keep, what to toss out

Federal Report

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Lead pandemic watchdog urges lawmakers to extend COVID anti-fraud tool to all federal spending

Agency Oversight

FILE - Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz testifies during a Senate Judiciary hearing on Capitol Hill, Sept. 15, 2021, in Washington. Inspectors general need more authority to go after fraud in the COVID-19 relief programs, the independent committee overseeing federal pandemic relief spending said Tuesday, May 31, 2022. Horowitz, head of the committee, said the $150,000 threshold is far too low given the scope of the fraud in programs set up to help businesses and people who lost their jobs due to the pandemic. (Graeme Jennings/Pool via AP, File)

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Federal watchdogs still uncovering full scope of fraud in $5T COVID-19 spending

Agency Oversight

How to find data on millions and millions of pandemic federal funding awards

Agency Oversight

Pandemic broke down some, but not all barriers for IGs

Agency Oversight

Pandemic relief oversight sheds new light on persistent gaps in federal spending data

Agency Oversight

Senators seek ‘guardrails’ on expanded subpoena power for inspectors general

Agency Oversight

Incarceration in the Age of COVID

Prisons and detention facilities, in general, had some of the toughest challenges getting through the pandemic.

Agency Oversight

House committee passes bill to prevent another Schedule F executive order from happening

The Preventing a Patronage System Act would prevent the White House, as the Trump administration proposed, from moving federal jobs outside the competitive…

Workforce

Top challenges for IGs with the new administration

Agency Oversight

Michael Horowitz and Allison Lerner discussed what the inspectors general community thinks of the top challenges for the federal government in the next year.

Michael Horowitz

IG backs legislation to keep important oversight tool alive

Eternal question: What to keep, what to toss out

Lead pandemic watchdog urges lawmakers to extend COVID anti-fraud tool to all federal spending

The Drug Enforcement Administration fails its own lie detector policy

How to fix the Bureau of Prisons

DOJ IG Horowitz reviews a decade of Bureau of Prisons crisis oversight

Federal watchdogs still uncovering full scope of fraud in $5T COVID-19 spending

How to find data on millions and millions of pandemic federal funding awards

Pandemic broke down some, but not all barriers for IGs

Pandemic relief oversight sheds new light on persistent gaps in federal spending data

Senators seek ‘guardrails’ on expanded subpoena power for inspectors general

Incarceration in the Age of COVID

House committee passes bill to prevent another Schedule F executive order from happening

Top challenges for IGs with the new administration