6/14/2018 WASHINGTON – Today, the House of Representatives passed the bipartisan Synthetic Trafficking and Overdose Prevention (STOP) Act of 2018 (H.R. 5788), sponsored by Congressmen Mike Bishop (MI-08) and Bill Pascrell, Jr. (NJ-09), to prevent the shipment of synthetic opioids into the United States through the international mail system. Specifically, this bill would require the […]
Risky Business: Examining GAO’s 2015 List of High Risk Government Programs On Feb. 11, 2015, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) will release an update to the High Risk List, an inventory of government operations vulnerable to fraud, waste, abuse and mismanagement. Every two years at the start of a new Congress, GAO calls attention to […]
House and Senate lawmakers introduce pay-increase legislation Last week, both the House and Senate introduced the Federal Adjustment of Income Rates (FAIR) Act (H.R. 304 and S.164), which seeks to provide a 3.8 percent pay increase for non-postal federal employees in Fiscal Year 2016. H.R. 304’s original co-sponsors include: Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA) Rep. […]