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DoD-commissioned report seeks to overhaul confusing reserve duty status system

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More than 30 different duty statuses under which National Guard members and reservists can be called to service could be consolidated into just four categories, a new Defense Department-commissioned report found.  Unlike active-duty troops who remain in one status, reservists and National Guard members move between multiple duty statuses depending on the type of service they perform. Over time, the system has grown to include more than 30 separate statutes scattered across about 20 different titles of federal law, creating inequities in pay and benefits and frequent administrative delays when…

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Five years after congressional report, national service recommendations face test

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A bipartisan congressional commission released its recommendations to strengthen all forms of service to meet the country’s needs just as COVID shut down the country in 2020. Now, five years later, Congress received an update on progress and unfinished business. Federal News Network’s Terry Gerton spoke with Dr. Joe Heck, the former chair of the Commission on the National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service, on the Federal Drive with Tom Temin to get his take on how times have changed and why his recommendations still matter. Interview transcript: Joe…

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Key takeaways, trends from GAO’s 2024 bid protest report

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Every fall, the Government Accountability Office fulfills its obligations under the Competition in Contracting Act of 1984 (CICA) and reports to Congress the number of bid protests that were filed in the previous fiscal year. GAO’s annual report also identifies each instance in which a federal agency did not fully implement a recommendation made by GAO in connection with a bid protest during the prior year, and each instance in which a final decision in a protest was not rendered within 100 days after the date the protest was submitted…

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Advertising Giant GARM Illegally Censored Conservative Outlets, House Report Finds

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The Global Alliance for Responsible Media likely violated federal antitrust laws by censoring the speech of conservative news outlets and personalities, the House Judiciary Committee concludes in a new report. GARM used its “tremendous market power in the advertising industry” to keep advertising dollars away from certain conservative news platforms, including Breitbart, Fox News, and The Daily Wire, according to the report released Wednesday by the committee chaired by Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio. According to the report, emails show the alliance’s leadership strategized on how to use the coalition against…

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ICYMI: New York Times and NBC News Report Skyrocketing Demand for MoveOn’s “Trump is a Felon” Stickers

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – As reported last night in The New York Times and on NBC News, MoveOn Political Action has taken orders for more than 50,000 “Trump is a Felon” stickers and counting—a request rate of ten times more than what the group’s membership has made in recent years. In just the first 10 minutes after the former president was found guilty on all 34 counts, more than 10,000 stickers were ordered. Less than three hours later, demand had surpassed 25,000 orders.  The extremely high demand underscores that the Democratic…

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