Tag: Watchdog

EXography: Seven steps to keep disability insurance solvent

EXography: Seven steps to keep disability insurance solvent

Luke Rosiak · October 15, 2013 4:00 am

Federal officials considered only one firm to design the Obamacare health insurance exchange website that has performed abysmally since its Oct. 1 debut.

Feds reviewed only one bid for Obamacare website design

Richard Pollock · October 14, 2013 4:00 am

Canadian provincial health officials last year fired the parent company of CGI Federal, the prime contractor for the problem-plagued Obamacare health exchange websites, the Washington Examiner has learned.

Canadian officials fired IT firm behind troubled Obamacare website

Richard Pollock · October 10, 2013 4:00 am

$7 million Afghan border crossing may hinder security, watchdog warns

$7 million Afghan border crossing may hinder security, watchdog warns

Michal Conger · October 10, 2013 4:00 am

Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki testifies before the House Veterans Affairs Committee hearing on the effects the government shutdown is having on benefits and services to veterans. About 3.8 million veterans will not receive disability compensation next month if the partial government shutdown continues into late October, Shinseki told lawmakers. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Veterans’ benefits run out Nov. 1 unless ‘brinksmanship’ on budget ends

Mark Flatten · October 9, 2013 4:00 am

The Bonneville Power Administration, a division of the DOE that markets power generated by federally owned hydroelectricity projects in the Northwest, ignored federal requirements that veterans receive preferential treatment in at least 117 cases.

Energy and Environment

Bonneville Power Administration abused federal hiring process to avoid hiring veterans

Ethan Barton · October 8, 2013 4:00 am

Tanya Pelcher-Herring told oversight bodies that the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service was breaking federal contracting rules and wasting tax dollars. (Examiner/Graeme Jennings)

Part Five: Wounded vet blew whistle on FMCS, rewarded with pink slip, harassment

Luke Rosiak · October 7, 2013 4:00 am

Too Big To Manage: Federal agencies can’t track costs, hours of employees working on ‘official time’ for government unions

Mark Flatten · October 7, 2013 4:00 am

The Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico has been storing, treating and disposing of radioactive waste since 1963, but its facility for doing so is aging and degrading. (Courtesy photo)

Energy and Environment

Nuclear waste treatment facility lags behind on necessary improvements

Kelly Cohen · October 4, 2013 4:00 am

FMCS employees who tried to negotiate with contractors for better rates found themselves berated by top FMCS officials, such as when one who objected to paying $42 per dozen cookies for a Florida soiree of FMCS employees.

Part Four: Federal officials cede power to contractors who write themselves sweetheart deals

Luke Rosiak · October 4, 2013 4:00 am

Michael Dickerson and Greg Gershman are being tapped to join the "tech surge" designed to rescue the malfunctioning Obamacare website. (Screenshot: Healthcare.gov)

Canadian firm hired to build troubled Obamacare exchange site

Richard Pollock · October 4, 2013 4:00 am

In this June 15, 2011 file photo, former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington.ÃÂ A conservative think tank filed a lawsuit Thursday to stop the Environmental Protection Agency from destroying text messages sent and received by Jackson and her successor, Gina McCarthy, to avoid publicly releasing them in response to Freedom of Information Act requests.ÃÂ (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Energy and Environment

Think tank sues to stop EPA from destroying potentially damaging, embarrassing emails, text messages

Michal Conger · October 4, 2013 4:00 am