Category: Congress

50,000 companies on hold because of GSA’s UEI validation problems

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Best listening experience is on Chrome, Firefox or Safari. Subscribe to Federal Drive’s daily audio interviews on Apple Podcasts or PodcastOne. Editor’s Note: Updated on Nov. 2 with comments from GSA about the UEI validation service backlog. It’s now November, and the General Services Administration still hasn’t fixed the Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) transition to the new validation service that began in April. And as many as 50,000 companies and grantees still are waiting to fix validation issues that is causing delays in awards and in getting paid. The almost six-month old problem…

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Pelosi home break in Congress 

Conspiracy theory on Pelosi home break-in proven to be baseless

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Conspiracy theories and disinformation spread extensively by prominent conservatives based on innuendo and falsehoods have been shown to be baseless by mounds of evidence, including statements by the attacker. Posted 11/2/2021 and last updated 11/3/2022. The break-in conspiracy theory centers around images showing some broken glass on the outside of the rear door of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco home. The suspect assaulted her husband Paul Pelosi with a hammer. It resulted in injuries requiring surgery to repair a skull fracture and serious injuries to Mr. Pelosi’s right arm…

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Survey: Half of federal chief data officers are unclear about responsibilities

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Chief data officers in federal agencies have been in the government for a long time, but that doesn’t mean they are clear on their responsibilities. That’s according to a recent survey of CDOs conducted by the Data Foundation. The chief data officer role in federal agencies was established in 2018 by an act of Congress. In the four years since, the Data Foundation has conducted surveys of the people who fill these roles responsible for data governance. This year, the survey sponsored by Guidehouse found that while CDOs tend to…

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AFGE heightens calls for major SSA workforce improvements at union rally

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A group of union officials and Social Security Administration employees gathered outside SSA’s headquarters in Baltimore, to voice frustrations with a shrinking agency workforce, and some of the major fallouts from it. The American Federation of Government Employees organized the rally on Oct. 26, where union leaders urged SSA to make several major changes to its workforce policies, like improving telework opportunities and increasing employee pay. The rally also built on the union’s demands from an Oct. 20 town hall to boost funding for the agency in fiscal 2023. “SSA…

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OPM clarifies how agencies can help feds apply for Public Service Loan Forgiveness waiver by Oct. 31 deadline

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With a fast-approaching deadline to apply for a Public Service Loan Forgiveness limited-time waiver, the Office of Personnel Management said agencies should help federal employees with their applications. If they have the documentation available, agencies can certify a current employee’s entire work history, including that individual’s time working previously at other agencies. “The federal employee should present a separate PSLF form for each federal agency and period of employment for which they are seeking certification and the agency official should certify each form as appropriate,” OPM wrote in an Oct.…

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An influential Congressional staffer is now a NAPA fellow

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Best listening experience is on Chrome, Firefox or Safari. Subscribe to Federal Drive’s daily audio interviews on Apple Podcasts or PodcastOne. Among this year’s fellows added to the National Academy of Public Administration are several still-working, senior federal employees. One of them is prominent on Capitol Hill and the Federal Drive with Tom Temin had a chance to conduct this extended 17-minute interview with her. She’s Wendy Ginsberg, staff director for the Subcommittee on Government Operations of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform. Interview transcript: Tom Temin: Staff director on a subcommittee. What…

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