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Obama Trying To Make Key Figure Permanent In Wake Of Scandals

AP | Posted 05.22.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON — The White House says President Barack Obama will nominate Dan Tangherlini to run the General Services Administration, the agency in...

Dave Jamieson

Federal Workers In For Newfangled Surprises

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 04.25.2013 | Green

WASHINGTON -- Federal officials said they hope a renovated building at 18th and F streets Northwest in downtown Washington will embody a new streamlin...

End Days For Hoover Building?

AP | PETE YOST | Posted 02.08.2013 | DC

WASHINGTON — Just six blocks from the White House, the FBI's hulking headquarters overlooking Pennsylvania Avenue has long been the government b...

Report: Agency That Held Lavish Conferences Paid $44 Million In Bonuses

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 08.01.2012 | Business

A government agency with a reputation for financial irresponsibility doesn't appear to have paid $13 million in bonuses to its employees last year, as...

Michael McAuliff

RNC Mocks Government Conference Cap Backed By Republicans

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 05.14.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- The Republican National Committee mocked an Obama administration plan to cap the costs of government conferences Monday, even though Rep...

George W. Bush's Shocking Requests

The Huffington Post | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.09.2012 | Politics

George W. Bush is slated to receive $1.3 million in taxpayer dollars for fiscal year 2013, including $85,000 in phone costs and $26,000 in printing co...

The Real Meaning of the GSA Scandal

J.H. Snider | Posted 07.08.2012 | Politics
J.H. Snider

What accounts for the different treatment? Why is a million dollars of waste at the GSA a scandal but not tens of billions of dollars at the FCC-NTIA? I believe public ignorance and apathy are the immediate cause of blame.

GSA Offered Unusual Deal To Contractors

AP | ALAN FRAM | Posted 07.03.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON — It was a curious offer to contractors from a government agency: We'll give you a tax deduction for making federal buildings more en...

House Takes Action After GSA Scandal

AP | By DONNA CASSATA | Posted 04.25.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Outraged by lavish government conferences on the taxpayers' tab, the House easily approved a measure Wednesday to impose tough limits on...

Mitt Romney: Obama's 'Elaborate Vacations' Set Example For GSA

The Huffington Post | Elise Foley | Posted 04.20.2012 | Politics

Mitt Romney said on Thursday that President Barack Obama is partially to blame for a recent scandal over excessive spending at the General Services Ad...

Fraud, Abuse in Small Business Contracting Programs Needs to End Now

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 06.18.2012 | Small Business
Lloyd Chapman

One of the most important problems raised by recent news of the General Services Administration's (GSA) trip to Las Vegas on the taxpayer's dime is the abuse of federal small business contracting programs.

Michael McAuliff

Darrell Issa's Flipside On Scandalized GSA Commemorative Coin

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 04.18.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa may be worked up over commemorative coins minted for the General Services Administration...

GSA Hearings Take New Turn

AP | LARRY MARGASAK | Posted 06.18.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON — The General Services Administration's internal watchdog said Wednesday that employees are heeding his call to report wrongdoing and...

'Scared To Pee' -- Federal Workers Talk About Exploding Toilet

Posted 04.17.2012 | Weird News

There was a lot of potty talk by government workers after toilets exploded in a federal building last year, sending one woman to the hospital. "I...

Lavish Taxpayer-Funded Vegas Conference Sparks Hearings

AP | LARRY MARGASAK | Posted 06.17.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON — The main figure in a General Services Administration spending scandal took trips to Hawaii, Napa Valley and the South Pacific islan...

GSA Coming Under Scrutiny

AP | LARRY MARGASAK | Posted 06.16.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON — The General Services Administration investigator who revealed a wild agency spending spree said Monday he's investigating possible ...

Your Tax Dollars Circling the Drain

Diane Dimond | Posted 06.12.2012 | Politics
Diane Dimond

With the scandal at the GSA seeming to grow larger every day -- a question: Is it time to start filing criminal charges against civil servants who was...

Darrell Issa Maneuvers To Get First Strike At Embattled Agency

Politico | BURGESS EVERETT | Posted 04.12.2012 | Politics

Powerful House committee chairmen Darrell Issa and John Mica are in an apparent duel to be the first to grill General Services Administration bureaucr...

GSA Sends New Message To Its Federal Employees

AP | LARRY MARGASAK | Posted 04.11.2012 | DC

WASHINGTON -- Top officials of the General Services Administration are telling employees they have a duty to report incidents of wasteful spending lik...

More GSA Spending Uncovered

AP | WILL LESTER | Posted 06.11.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON — A House Republican whose committee is investigating a lavish conference held by the General Services Administration says a high-ran...

Michael McAuliff

Darrell Issa Calls Hearing On GSA Las Vegas Spree

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 04.09.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Republicans, who have seized upon embarrassing reports that the federal General Services Administration blew $823,000 on a Las Vegas spl...

GSA Scandal Is a Window to the Way Washington Really Works

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 06.09.2012 | Small Business
Lloyd Chapman

Maybe it was the fact that the administrator was forced to resign and two employees were fired. Truth be told, a lot of administration heads should probably resign. These abuses are not unique to the Obama administration; they've gone on for decades.

Sam Stein

WATCH: GSA Conference Video Shows Armani Suits, Mega-Margaritas, Bubble Shows, Angry Clowns

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 04.06.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Potentially problematic and certainly embarrassing video of the General Services Administration's infamous $820,000 Las Vegas conferenc...

WATCH: Federal Employee Raps About Agency's Lavish Spending

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 04.06.2012 | Business

If you're a federal employee, it may be best not to rap about your agency's lavish spending, or you "rolling on 20s, yeah, in my G.O.V." And yes, G.O....

Agency's Awards Program Wildly Overspent

AP | LARRY MARGASAK | Posted 06.06.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON — The General Services Administration developed an employee awards program that spent more than $438,000 over four years, far exceedi...