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PURPOSE: To explore the future of Recreation.gov and the new U.S. Forest Service (FS) management contract for the website. BACKGROUND: Recreation.gov was created to make it easier for citizens and agencies to manage national resources across several different federal agencies. In May, FS and the Department of Interior awarded a new ten year management contract with the goal of establishing and promoting ...

PURPOSE: To examine the administration’s efforts to implement the Federal Information Technology Reform Act (FITARA). To release updated FITARA scorecards for agencies. BACKGROUND: FITARA provides enhanced authorities to agency Chief Information Officers for acquisition, management, and spending related to information technology. In 2015, the Committee worked with the Government Accountability ...

PURPOSE: To examine how the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) handles employee misconduct, and ways the Agency can improve its response to this ongoing problem. BACKGROUND: The EPA’s inspector general found multiple recent instances of egregious misconduct among EPA employees. In many of these ...

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Today, in advance of the House Judiciary Committee’s May 24, 2016 hearing to examine misconduct by Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner John Koskinen, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) introduced a resolution (H. Res. 737) to censure Commissioner Koskinen.  The resolution offers Congressional ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, House Oversight and Government Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) sent letters to Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) Administrator Howard Shelanski and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sylvia Burwell urging their immediate compliance with Congressional subpoenas. Both officials have delayed the Committee’s investigations on important ...