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Special Counsel Calls for Stronger Airline Safety Oversight Published: May 17, 2012 The Office of Special Counsel has issued a warning to the FAA via a letter to the White House and Congress urging stronger oversight in the face of “an ongoing series of troubling safety disclosures by [...]
IG Calls for Better Oversight of IRS Whistleblower Program Published: May 17, 2012 The IRS’s whistleblower program office has not fully and adequately addressed internal control weaknesses on the processing of whistleblower claims stretching back several years, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration has said. [...]
Senate Again Passes Whistleblower Bill Published: May 17, 2012 The Senate has voted unanimously in favor of the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2011 to strengthen and clarify protections under the Whistleblower Protection Act. The House and Senate passed a similar bill in 2010 that was [...]
IG: Additional Controls Could Help IRS Tuition Assistance Program Published: May 16, 2012 Additional management controls could help the IRS’s already successful tuition assistance program, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration has said. It said that in fiscal 2011, 5,313 IRS employees participated in the program, which [...]
VA Touts Facebook Presence, Says Platform Aids Outreach Efforts Published: May 16, 2012 The Department of Veterans Affairs has announced it hit 200,000 fans of its official Facebook page, helping it with efforts to communicate directly to veterans. "We started our social media program with the vision of [...]
OMB Issues Guidance to Curb Agency Spending Published: May 16, 2012 The White House has issued guidance aimed at reducing spending on travel, conferences, vehicle fleets and real property that it hopes will result in hundreds of millions in cost avoidance. The guidance, M-12-12, will [...]
IG: IRS Failing to Use Payment Codes Accurately, Effectively Published: May 15, 2012 The IRS has established a system to use designated payment codes (DPCs), to identify IRS enforcement actions or other events that result in taxpayers submitting subsequent payments on their balance due accounts, but the agency is not [...]
GAO Calls for Management Improvements at FDA to Reduce Modernization Risks Published: May 15, 2012 The FDA needs to fully implement key management practices to mitigate IT modernization risks, GAO has said after assessing the status of IT systems and IT management practices, as well as data sharing among key systems. <[...]
Plain Writing for Regs Proposed Published: May 15, 2012 Legislation offered in the Senate would require that federal regulations be written in plain English, a follow-up to the 2010 Plain Writing Act, which ordered agencies to do the same with other types of publicly available documents. <[...]
GAO: Better Data Needed for Collaboration Between FPS and Partners Published: May 14, 2012 The Federal Protective Service needs better data on facility jurisdictions to improve collaboration with state and local law enforcement, GAO has said. It said that although FPS has a reasonable approach to state and local [...]
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