U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

Benghazi deserves real review

2013-05-09 10:27:00

Whether the House investigation into the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, is a political witch hunt aimed at former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her possible run for president in 2016, as Democrats allege, or a principled...

Perez vote delayed as confirmation fight intensifies

2013-05-08 14:52:00

WASHINGTON -- A Senate committee vote on Labor Secretary nominee Tom Perez was postponed hours before it was set to take place Wednesday, highlighting what appears to be a growing partisan fight over the confirmation of the former Maryland official.�...

Could Biden benefit from scrutiny of Hillary Clinton's handling of Benghazi?

2013-05-13 07:52:00

If former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hoped she could segue quietly into private life as she pondered a presidential bid in 2016, that fantasy has been abruptly harpooned in the resurrection of the political squabble over the terrorist attack on...

Average federal salary up, despite pay freeze

2013-04-12 14:30:09

The "average" federal employee salary is nearly $78,500, an amount that has risen by about $1,800 in the past two years despite a general freeze on salary rates, according to the Office of Personnel Management. As of September, OPM reported last week,...

Federal firefighters push for shift-swap flexibility

2013-04-05 15:59:32

When city or county firefighters have a family event or unexpected obligation pop up on a workday, their solution is familiar to most shift workers: They find a colleague willing to trade hours. But for the roughly 10,000 firefighters employed by the...

Federal government cuts travel costs; scientists warn of collaboration lost

2013-03-17 20:21:00

Florence P. Haseltine knows the power of scientists meeting face to face. The former researcher at the National Institutes of Health notes a list of milestones achieved through networking and collaboration at conferences, such as the deliberations that...

Dundalk residents react to Postal Service's decision to stop Saturday delivery

2013-02-07 11:20:00

At the Dundalk Post Office this week, news that the cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service would stop delivering mail on Saturdays beginning in August was greeted with a mix of apathy and understanding. Twenty-four-year-old Jordan Gillis said he wasn't...

Reactions mixed to Postal Service's decision to stop Saturday delivery

2013-02-06 17:22:00

Word that the cash-strapped Postal Service would stop delivering mail on Saturdays hit Lakesha Johnson hard. "I think that's terrible," the Baltimore woman said Wednesday outside the city's Main Post Office on East Fayette Street. "When they want to...

Reactions mixed to Postal Service request to stop delivering mail on Saturdays

2013-02-06 14:08:00

Lanny Gans had not heard, until she went to the Roland Park post office Wednesday, that the financially struggling U.S. Postal Service plans to end Saturday service in August, in an effort to save $2 billion a year.. "I hate to see anything like that...

Legislators to look at drug shortages

2012-12-04 15:57:19

The staff at Anne Arundel Medical Center considered canceling some surgeries on a recent weekend because the hospital was running low on a common drug used to help bring people out from under anesthesia. It is the kind of problem hospitals and doctors...

Lawmakers eye proposals to speed voting

2012-11-23 13:42:00

Long lines that caused voters in Maryland and several other states to wait hours at polling places on Election Day are prompting a push for new laws to speed the process of casting a ballot. Lawmakers in Congress and the Maryland General Assembly say...

Congressional candidate profiles

2012-11-01 13:48:00

MEET THE CANDIDATES � When Marylanders head to the polls Nov. 6, they will elect members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives in addition to casting their ballots for president. Dozens of people are running for a chance to represent the...

Lerner as she takes her seat before a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington

2013-05-22 08:12:03

Lois Lerner, who supervises the IRS employees handling applications for nonprofit status, invoked the 5th Amendment after telling the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that she had done nothing wrong.

2013-05-22 00:00:00

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Committee Chairman Darrell Issa is leading the GOP investigation of the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on a U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya.

2013-05-08 00:00:00