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Tajha Chappellet-lanier Most of the federal agencies required to participate in recent federal data center optimizations efforts do not plan to meet mandated targets by the end of fiscal 2018, a new Government Accountability Office report finds. Of the 24 agencies required to meet the Office of Management and Budget’s Data… Read more »

Mark Hand Hundreds of Environmental Protection Agency employees are leaving as the Trump administration works to reduce the federal government’s role in protecting Americans from toxic air and water. The staff reductions are occurring at a time when the EPA’s work is proving more valuable than ever. Storms, floods, and… Read more »

Matthew Daly Virginia's two Democratic senators joined with two Republican senators to sponsor a resolution condemning white nationalists, neo-Nazis and other hate groups following a white-nationalist rally in Virginia that descended into deadly violence. Democratic Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine introduced the joint… Read more »

Congressman Gerry Connolly (D-VA) released the following statement on President Trump’s decision to end the DACA program: “Dreamers are Americans. They're not pawns, they're not aliens. They embrace the best of America. To uproot them violates our own values. 800,000 Dreamers contribute $460.3 billion to our GDP and $24.6 billion to Social Security and Medicare. It is self-defeating to… Read more »

Today, Representatives Gerry Connolly, Steny Hoyer, Eleanor Holmes Norton, John Sarbanes, John Delaney, Donald S. Beyer, Jr., Barbara Comstock, Anthony Brown and Jamie Raskin sent a letter to FEMA Administrator Brock Long in support of WMATA’s FY17 application for Transit Security Grant Program (TSGP) funds. The funding would allow Metro to protect the transit system and its customers and… Read more »

Congressman Gerry Connolly issued the following statement today on DACA and the contributions of DREAMers to Virginia in response to troubling reports that President Trump may end the DACA program: “Since its creation in 2012, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program has given nearly 800,000 DREAMers the opportunity to work and attend school. In Virginia, we have more… Read more »

Martin DiCaro Five months after Virginia hired him to craft a regional consensus around Metro governance reforms and funding needs, former U.S.… Read more »

Meredith Somers The General Services Administration’s Office of Inspector General is reviewing the lease between the agency and the Trump organization. “GSA’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) is evaluating GSA’s management and administration of the ground lease for the Old Post Office Building,” a GSA spokesperson said in an… Read more »

Congressman Gerry Connolly (D-VA), Vice Ranking Member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, released the following statement on reports the GSA's Office of Inspector General is reviewing the Trump organization's lease at the Trump International Hotel: “As soon as the President was sworn in the Trump Organization was in violation of its lease. The language in the lease… Read more »

Congressman Gerry Connolly (D-VA) released the following statement on reports of Secretary LaHood's Metro recommendations: "The fact that it is Virginia's suburban compact members and not the state government in Richmond who pay Metro subsidies has been dismissed in Secretary LaHood's report. No one should dictate to them who should represent them on the Metro board. I will oppose any… Read more »