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News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, made the following statement today on a survey released by the Institute for Energy Research that shows a growing trend among Americans wanting a more transparent federal government.

News Release: WASHINGTON - Steven J. Sulinski, 54, a former background investigator for the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), was sentenced today to three months in prison on a charge stemming from his falsification of work on background investigations of federal employees and contractors, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. and Patrick E. McFarland, Inspector General for the Office of Personnel Management.

News Release: WASHINGTON - Kristen M. Jasper, 28, a former background investigator for the U.S. Office of Personnel Management OPM), was sentenced today to six months of home detention and ordered to pay $109,000 in restitution for falsifying work on background investigations of federal employees and contractors, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. and Patrick E. McFarland, Inspector General for the Office of Personnel Management.

News Release: WASHINGTON - Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., Wednesday reacted critically to a subcommittee report on fusion centers.

News Release: The Justice Department announced the release of its “Section 508 report to the President and Congress: “Accessibility of Federal Electronic and Information Technology.” The report, authorized under Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended (Section 508) provides findings based on a survey of federal agencies on the accessibility of their electronic and information technology (EIT) and the procedures used to implement the requirements of Section 508.

News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., June 6, 2012 - The House of Representatives today passed, in a bipartisan vote of 355 to 51, an amendment by Congressman Scott Tipton (CO-03) to the FY 2013 Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act to prohibit the federal agencies under the bill from mailing out cash as an incentive to complete government surveys.

News Release: WASHINGTON- When President Obama signed the Open Government Initiative on Jan. 21, 2009, he said “the Freedom of Information Act is perhaps the most powerful instrument we have for making our government honest and transparent, and of holding it accountable. And I expect members of my administration not simply to live up to the letter but also the spirit of this law."

News Release: WASHINGTON – U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Shaun Donovan, Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller and Colorado Attorney General John W. Suthers announced today that the federal government and 49 state attorneys general have reached a landmark ...

News Release: -. PHOENIX, AZ. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Acting Special Agent in Charge Doug Coleman and U.S. Attorney for the District of Arizona, Dennis K. Burke, announced today that Walgreens Arizona Drug Co., on behalf of its wholly owned retail pharmacy in Show Low, Ariz., has agreed to pay the federal government...

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today held the fourth hearing in a series discussing the role of spectrum policy in promoting wireless broadband, bringing interoperable broadband communications to public safety, ...

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today held the fourth hearing in a series discussing the role of spectrum policy in promoting wireless broadband, bringing interoperable broadband communications to public safety, ...

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today held the fourth hearing in a series discussing the role of spectrum policy in promoting wireless broadband, bringing interoperable broadband communications to public safety, ...

News Release: Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) and Congressman Hansen Clarke (D-Mich.) called for the federal government to take the necessary steps to counter anti-Muslim sentiment.

News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa has asked federal officials to respond to his analysis showing some doctors across the country prescribe much higher numbers of certain prescription drugs than their peers. Taxpayer-funded Medicare and Medicaid pay for the medicine.

News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Responding to today’s White House’s housing summit, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) today called on the Obama Administration to make exposing the full extent of the ‘too-cozy’ relationship between the mortgage industry and Fannie Mae...

News Release: WASHINGTON - Last night, Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.) celebrated the U.S. Senate's passage of The Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Act (S.1508). The bill, sponsored by Sens. Carper, Lieberman, Collins, McCaskill, McCain and Coburn in the Senate and Rep. Patrick Murphy (D-PA) in the House, requires...

News Release: WASHINGTON - Last night, Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.) celebrated the U.S. Senate's passage of The Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Act (S.1508). The bill, sponsored by Sens. Carper, Lieberman, Collins, McCaskill, McCain and Coburn in the Senate and Rep. Patrick Murphy (D-PA) in the House, requires...

News Release: Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., Ranking Member Susan Collins, R-Me., and Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security Chairman Tom Carper, D-Del., requested the reports.

News Release: Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., Ranking Member Susan Collins, R-Me., and Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security Chairman Tom Carper, D-Del., requested the reports.

News Release: WASHINGTON—The federal government announced today that it would remove the remaining 52 ships that currently sit in the Suisun Bay as part of an agreement with environmental groups that was filed in federal court in Sacramento, Calif., the Department of Justice and Department of Transportation announced today.

News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, today released the following statement regarding President Obama's announcement that the federal government will reduce its greenhouse gas pollution by 28 percent in 2020...

News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Dec. 3, 2009 - The Department of the Interior just released the which showed that the federal government made $106 million by taking oil and natural gas royalty in-kind. This report comes on the heels of Secretary Ken Salazar’s September announcement that the Department of the Interior would end the RIK program, despite five years of taxpayer benefits from this profitable program.

News Release: Senator Chuck Grassley issued the following comment about his opposition to the motionto proceed to H.R. 3590, the legislative vehicle for the Patient Protection and Affordable CareAct of 2009. The text of Senator Grassley’s floor speech is below the comment.“This proposal is another big government spending...

News Release: Sen. Chuck Grassley, ranking member of the Committee on Finance, is concerned that the federal government is refusing to omit ACORN from the Combined Federal Campaign. Sen. Grassley conducts oversight of tax-exempt groups and related entities. Here's a comment from Sen. Grassley...

News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senator Susan M. Collins, R-Me., introduced a bill Wednesday aimed at making the federal government, the world’s largest institutional consumer of energy, more energy efficient. Her measure also would require that all executive branch agencies set clear goals in order to chart progress in this critical area.