Today, Congressman Gerry Connolly (D-VA), Vice Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, released the following statement on the Government Accountability Office’s report, “Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority: Assessing Fiscal Risks and Improving Workforce Management Would Help Achieve Strategic Goals.”
“This report, which I requested along… Read more »
Jonathan O'Connell
Officials from the General Services Administration may have misled Congress about the White House’s role in canceling a decade-long search for a new FBI headquarters campus in the Washington suburbs last year, according to a government watchdog report released Monday.
GSA officials also misrepresented the… Read more »
Niels Lesniewski
President Donald Trump was more intimately involved in the debate over relocating the FBI headquarters than Congress was told, a new inspector general report finds.
Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, a Democrat representing parts of Northern Virginia, said the report he requested from the General Services Administration… Read more »
Congressman Gerry Connolly (D-VA), Vice Ranking Member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, released the follow statement on today’s GSA Inspector General’s report on the FBI headquarters decision. Connolly requested the report in February 2018.
“I initiated the Inspector General’s investigation into the procurement of a new consolidated headquarters for the Federal… Read more »
Today, Congressman Gerry Connolly and the cosponsors of the Metro Accountability and Investment Act (MAIA, H.R. 4900) wrote to the Chairman and Ranking Member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure to urge the Committee to include in any comprehensive infrastructure package the reforms and transit investments for the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority… Read more »
Today, Representatives Gerry Connolly (D-VA) and John Sarbanes (D-MD) introduced the Telework Metrics and Cost Savings Act. The bill would prohibit the kind of indiscriminate anti-telework policies the Trump Administration has announced for the Department of Education and U.S. Department of Agriculture.
“Instead of instituting mindless, sweeping bans on telework participation,… Read more »
Adam Longo and Eliana Block
A proposal to increase teleworking opportunities for federal government employees is being introduced in the House of Representatives on Thursday.
Representatives Gerry Connolly (D-VA) and Paul Sarbanes (D-MD) are co-sponsors of the "Telework Metrics and Cost Savings Act."
A news release sent… Read more »
Jory Heckman
Following the recent rollback of telework agreements at the Education and Agriculture departments, two D.C.-area lawmakers have introduced legislation aimed at protecting and expanding existing agency telework agreements.
The Telework Metrics and Cost Savings Act, introduced by Reps. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) and… Read more »
Today, Congressman Gerry Connolly (D-VA), Vice Ranking Member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, and Ranking Member Elijah Cummings (D-MD) voted against H.R. 50, legislation that would impose numerous new requirements that will slow down the regulatory process and give regulated industry an unfair advantage over public health organizations, doctors, scientists, and… Read more »
Today, Reps. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Gerald E. Connolly, Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Government Operations, sent a letter to President Donald Trump in response to troubling reports that he is using his authority as president to launch political attacks against Amazon and its founder, Jeff Bezos, and to… Read more »
