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Rep. Mike Conaway has been given the reins to the House intelligence committee's fractured Russia investigation following chairman Rep. Devin Nunes' announcement Thursday that he is temporarily stepping aside --- but who is the man now tasked with getting things back on track after weeks of partisan conflict?
The Obama administration’s IT leaders focused heavily on trying to get agencies to move to the cloud, leverage shared services and above all, retire legacy systems. And so far, all signs point to the Trump administration continuing in a similar vein.
Pamela Taylor’s home in Brownsville, Texas, sits in between the Rio Grande and the current border fence. Taylor, 88, voted for Donald Trump. But now, she faces the possibility that the man she voted for could take her land through eminent domain.
At an April 4 oversight hearing, congressional watchdogs, industry experts and longtime feds called for a cyber national guard, centralized hiring, as well as the reforming and expansion of educational outreach programs to address the IT skills shortage and increase workforce diversity.
President Donald Trump's plan to build a massive wall along the entire U.S. Mexico border has it's supporters and opponents among the residents who live on the Texas southern border. Last Saturday it was the anti-wall forces that wanted to make sure their opinion was heard. They staged a protest on the international bridge that connects Del Rio, Texas and Ciudad Acuna, Mexico.
With the Lone Star State’s population up by 4.3 million people since 2000 and continuing to surge, cattle ranchers know they have no hope of stopping eminent domain from allowing oil and gas pipelines, transmission lines, and possibly high-speed trains from cutting through their pastures.
President Donald Trump’s budget request is going to bring back a proposal for a centralized IT modernization fund housed in the Office of Management and Budget, Republican Rep. Will Hurd told FedScoop on Tuesday.
Beyond the uncertainty created by the failure to pass the American Health Care Act, which was supposed to be voted on last Friday, legislators from both sides of the aisle should focus on what Americans need and the cost of it, said U.S. Rep. Will Hurd (Texas’ 23rd Dist.) in an interview with the Del Rio News-Herald.
What is the future of federal IT modernization? It’s uncertain, but federal IT leaders say that critical details about a potential IT modernization fund need to be worked out in Congress, including how the fund would be repaid and what penalties would be assessed if agencies do not show a return on investment.
One of the tech-savviest congressmen is ready to reintroduce legislation to tackle one of the federal government’s greatest technology problems.