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Jessica Taylor and Peter Overby Officials leasing the Old Post Office Building for the the Trump International Hotel in Washington improperly ignored the Constitution's anti-corruption clauses when they continued to lease the government property to President Trump even after he won the White House, according to an internal federal… Read more »

David A. Fahrenthold The General Services Administration “ignored” concerns that President Trump’s lease on a government-owned building — the one that houses his Trump International Hotel in Washington — might violate the Constitution when it allowed Trump to keep the lease after he took office, according to a new report from the… Read more »

Today, Congressman Gerry Connolly, a senior member of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, released the following statement on federal court ruling against the Trump administration’s addition of a citizenship question to the Census. “From the beginning, I’ve been fighting the Trump Administration’s attempts to intimidate minority communities into not being counted, and… Read more »

Today, Congressman Gerry Connolly (D-VA) joined Senators Brian Schatz (D-HI) and Mark Warner (D-VA), and Congressman Derek Kilmer (D-WA), in introducing the Federal Employee Civil Relief Act. The new bicameral legislation would protect federal workers and their families from foreclosures, evictions, and loan defaults during a government shutdown. “For weeks, President Trump’s shutdown… Read more »

Today, Congressman Gerry Connolly (D-VA) sponsored legislation introduced by Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) that would guarantee back pay to low-wage federally contracted workers who are affected by the ongoing government shutdown. “Low-wage federal contract workers can least afford to be penalized by President Trump’s shutdown,” Norton said. “Unlike federal employees,… Read more »

Congressmen Don Beyer and Gerry Connolly today wrote to the Administrator of the General Services Administration (GSA) seeking fixes to problems identified by a General Accountability Office investigative report into asbestos in federal buildings. The report found that the GSA has failed to abide by its own tracking and recording guidelines, including the operation of a tracking database… Read more »

Congressman Gerry Connolly (D-VA), Vice Ranking Member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, joined Representatives Don Beyer (D-VA) and Rob Wittman (R-VA) in introducing the Federal Employee Retroactive Pay Fairness Act. This legislation would guarantee back pay to furloughed federal employees during a potential shutdown. The bill currently has 66 bipartisan cosponsors.… Read more »

Today, Congressman Gerry Connolly (D-VA), a senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Congressman Steve Chabot (R-OH) introduced the bipartisan Global Health Security Act, which reaffirms the United States’ commitment to promoting global health security. The legislation is cosponsored by House Foreign Affairs Committee Ranking Member Eliot Engel (D-NY), and Representatives… Read more »

Griffin Connolly The second-highest ranking Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is calling for a public hearing on the Trump administration’s reported wasteful spending on border security. The inspector general for the Department of Homeland Security found that a staffing plan green-lighted by the… Read more »

Nicole Ogrysko Customs and Border Protection has issued Accenture Federal Services, the vendor the agency hired to help CBP recruit border patrol agents and officers more quickly, a partial stop work order. The agency coordinated with Accenture and has asked the vendor to “reduce emphasis on some elements of the contract to… Read more »