Two Senate committees got their chance today to question GSA leaders after two days of House hearings into the agency. Both the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee—which met this morning—and the Appropriations Committee’s Financial Services…
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GSA Scandal Hearings: Day Two, House Leaders Threaten to Shut Down GSA
On the second day of congressional hearings on the GSA Las Vegas Conference scandal, the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure’s Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management, led by Committee Chairman John Mica…
GSA Scandal Hearings: Day One, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
Members of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform expressed outrage while peppering current and former GSA leaders with hard-hitting questions about their role in the 2010 Western Regions Conference scandal—which was the subject of…
Spotlight: Fish and Wildlife Service
Which federal agency is responsible for 150 million acres of land? The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), a bureau within the Department of the Interior, manages the 150 million-acre National Wildlife Refuge System, which is…
More Shake-ups at GSA: Acting PBS Commissioner Appointed, Hearings Scheduled
We’ve been wondering since last Monday who would replace Bob Peck as GSA’s commissioner of public buildings, who was fired that day as part of the now infamous “GSA Las Vegas Scandal.” The answer came yesterday…
GSA Las Vegas Round-Up
There has been a tsunami of press this entire stemming from the Las Vegas Conference that led to the resignation of GSA Administrator Martha Johnson and the related firing of GSA’s Public Buildings Commissioner, Bob Peck.…
PTO Proves Teleworking Works
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) employees participating in the agency’s Patent Hoteling Program (PHP)—the agency’s largest telework program—process more patent applications per year than their in-office counterparts and save the agency millions of dollars each…
Shake-up at GSA: Johnson, Peck Out, Tangherlini In
GSA Chief Administrator Martha Johnson resigned today (April 2) and two of her deputies—Public Buildings Service Commissioner Bob Peck and Johnson’s top adviser, Stephen Leeds—were fired, according to White House officials cited in a Washington Post…
GSA Continues Its Embrace of Telework
During the week of March 5–9, more than 6,400 GSA staffers—about half of the agency’s workforce—didn’t show up at their office. But those workers weren’t sick or slacking off—they were participating in National Telework Week by…
GSA Leads the Way in Shrinking Office Space
As we’ve already reported, GSA’s Public Building Service has a long-term goal of improving the way federal agencies use space and downsizing the federal office space footprint. GSA is leading the way in its own Washington,…