Jessie Bur
Congress will be busy with future tech initiatives and members have high hopes for the potential of current programs, according to two congressmen who spoke June 7 at MeriTalk’s Cloud Computing Brainstorm.
Congressional IT leaders Reps. Will Hurd, R-Texas, and Gerry Connolly, D-Va., talked about the future of major IT initiatives such as FedRAMP, the Modernizing… Read more »
Eliza Collins
Republicans are about to give one of the top committee posts in the House to a guy who has never said he wants the job: South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy.
Gowdy is expected to be chosen this week to take over the chairmanship of the powerful House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, despite the fact he has not said he is running for the position.
The Republican… Read more »
Bill McAllister
Forty-eight years after President Richard M. Nixon pleaded with postal unions to support his plan for an independent postal service, another Republican president appears to be saying those unions might have achieved too many benefits with their collective-bargaining rights.
That seems to be what Donald Trump’s proposed federal budget for fiscal 2018 is saying.
The… Read more »
Damian Paletta and Mike DeBonis
President Trump faces an increasingly narrow path to win major legislative victories before the looming August recess, with only two months left to revive his health-care or tax initiatives before Congress departs for a long break.
White House officials said Tuesday that Trump has become increasingly incensed that legislation is bogging down in the… Read more »
Joe Davidson
President Trump, with his well-crafted disrupter reputation, potentially could disrupt one self-funding service Americans directly use almost every day — mail delivery.
In the fiscal 2018 budget plan the Trump administration released this week, he reopened the divisive issue of cutting Saturday mail service. After a long and contentious effort, Republicans and… Read more »
Robert McCartney
President Trump’s full budget plan, issued Tuesday, is even worse for the Washington region than the initial “skinny” version released in March, local government officials and analysts say.
The new one includes all the same ominous proposals that prompted warnings that the spending plan would worsen economic inequality and possibly tip the area into recession. The… Read more »
Congressman Gerry Connolly (D-VA) released the following statement on President Trump's FY2018 Budget proposal:
“The President's FY2018 budget proposal is the most radical policy document to come out of Washington since the failed Ryan Budget. It is a blueprint for social Darwinism and a unilateral retreat from our commitments at home and abroad.
How does slashing Medicaid, Medicare,… Read more »
Congressman Gerry Connolly (D-VA), a coauthor the Modernizing Government Technology Act of 2017, released the following statement after the House passed the MGT Act today.
“I am pleased the MGT Act has once again passed the House and is now one step closer to becoming law,” said Congressman Connolly. “The current patchwork of outdated, legacy IT systems is simply unsustainable in the… Read more »
Joe Uchill
A bill to fund agency efforts to modernize IT equipment has passed the House.
The Modernizing Government Technology (MGT) Act, headed by Rep. Will Hurd (R-Texas) and backed by Reps. Gerry Connolly (D-Virg.) and Robyn Kelly (D-Ill.), passed via voice vote Wednesday afternoon.
It provides two channels of funding that agencies can use to upgrade aging technology, which is… Read more »
Billy Mitchell
The House passed the Modernizing Government Technology Act by voice vote Wednesday, with the expectation that this year it will have an easier path in the Senate.
Supporters of the bill, sponsored by Rep. Will Hurd, R-Texas, touted it as “common sense” and “bipartisan” legislation that will help prevent federal systems from falling victim to massive cybersecurity… Read more »
