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• CIA Award Ceremony

  

• 12.11.12 DNI Award Lieberman

  

• Homeland Threats and Agency Responses

  

• Moving from Scandal to Strategy: The Future of the General Services Administration

  

• Labor-Management Forums in the Federal Government

  

• Homeland Security Hearing: Evolving and Emerging Threats

  

• Cybersecurity Press Conference 8.2.12

  

• Committee Markup 6/27/12

  

• DHS Demonstration on Hacker Methods and Defensive Strategies

  

• Chairman Lieberman talks cybersecurity with Bloomberg staff

  

• Chairman McCaskill Holds Hearing on Veterans Employment

  

• Subcommittee Witnesses at Veterans Employment and Government Contractors Hearing on June 5, 2012

  

• Secret Service on the Line: Restoring Trust and Confidence

  

• May 15, 2012 Mark up, Domestic Partners bill

  

• STOCK Act Press Conference

  

  Senators Lieberman, Collins, Gillibrand and Scott Brown held a press conference shortly after Senate passage of the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act.

• DHS Budget Under the Microscope

  

• Retooling Government for the 21st Century

  

  Photos from the March 21 hearing, "Retooling Government for the 21st Century: The President's Reorganization Plan and Reducing Duplication"

  Witnesses were Dan Werfel, Controller, Office of Federal Financial Management at the Office of Management and Budget and Patricia Dalton, Chief Operating Officer of the U.S. Government Accountability Office

• McCaskill Moves to Protect Contracts for Small Businesses

  

  An investigation spearheaded by Senator Claire McCaskill has targeted the various loopholes, oversight failures, and tangled regulations which have resulted in contracts intended for small businesses being performed, instead, by large corporations. On July 26, 2011, Chairman McCaskill held a hearing to continue the Subcommittee on Contracting Oversight's efforts to examine small business contracting issues. Since 2005, the Inspector General of the Small Business Administration has listed as one of the agency's top management challenges the fact that large firms are obtaining small business contracts, as well as agencies counting contracts performed by large corporations toward their small business contracting goals.

• McCaskill Looks at Whistleblower Protections for Federal Contractors

  

  On December 12, 2011, Chairman McCaskill held a Subcommittee on Contracting Oversight hearing to review the “Non-Federal Employee Whistleblower Protection Act,” a bill that was introduced by Senator McCaskill to bolster whistleblower protections for government contractors and other non-federal employees. The hearing also reviewed whether current whistleblower protections for contractors working under Defense Department and Recovery Act contracts have been effective in encouraging reports of waste, fraud, and abuse.

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• McCaskill, Webb Introduce Comprehensive Contracting Reform Legislation

  

  Wednesday, February 29, 2012

  On Wednesday, February 29, 2012, Senators Claire McCaskill and Jim Webb introduced legislation to overhaul the federal government’s planning, management, and oversight of wartime contracting.  The Senators' comprehensive reform legislation (S. 2139) builds on the recommendations of the U.S. Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan – an independent, bipartisan panel that Senators McCaskill and Webb created through legislation they introduced in 2007.

• McCaskill Looks at Next Steps for Arlington National Cemetery

  

  At a recent Subcommittee on Contracting Oversight hearing that assessed the need for continuing improvements at Arlington National Cemetary, Senator McCaskill cited a successfully managed Missouri cemetery as an example.

• Where Were the Watchdogs: Financial Regulatory Lessons from Abroad

  

• Gulf Coast Catastrophe: Assessing the Nation's Response to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

  

  The Committee examined both the governmental and business community’s response to the Gulf Coast oil spill.

• Nomination Hearing for Robert Groves

  

• The D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program: Preserving School Choice for All

  

• Iran Sanctions: Why does the U.S. government Do Business With Companies Doing Business in Iran?

  

  The hearing scrutinized the status of government contracts with companies doing business with Iran, especially those violating U.S. sanctions.

• The Homeland Security Department's Budget Submission for Fiscal Year 2010

  

• Nomination Hearing for Cass Sunstein

  

• Terrorists and Guns Hearing

  

  The hearing examined how to prevent and protect against terrorists using firearms to attack the United States.

• Swine Flu: Coordinating the Federal Response

  

• Nominations Hearing for Ivan K. Fong and Timothy W. Manning

  

• Business Meeting042809

  

• Cyber Security: Developing a National Strategy

  

• Follow the Money: State and Local Oversight of Stimulus Funding

  

• Nomination Hearing for John T. Morton

  

• Nomination Hearing for W. Craig Fugate

  

• Lessons and Implications of the Christmas Day Attack: Securing the Visa Process

  

  Witnesses were: Janice Jacobs, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Consular Affairs, State Department; David Heyman, Assistant Secretary, Office of Policy, Homeland Security Department; John Morton, Assistant Secretary, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Department of Homeland Security

• Border Security: Moving Beyond the Virtual Fence

  

  The hearing focused on the federal government’s plans for securing the Southwest border and the potential for spillover violence from the Mexican drug cartel battles.

• Ft Hood Press Conference

  

  April 15, 2010, Chairman Lieberman and Ranking Member Collins held a press conference to announce they would subpoena the Departments of Defense and Justice if they continued to withhold information critical to the Committee's independent investigation of the Ft. Hood massacre.

• STOCK Act markup

  

• U.S. Postal Service in Crisis: Proposals to Prevent a Postal Shutdown

  

• Protecting Cyberspace: Assessing the White House Proposal

  

  The hearing to assessed the White House cybersecurity proposal in relation to legislation introduced by Senators Lieberman, Collins, and Carper, D-Del. Lieberman, Collins, and Carper have led efforts to secure the nation’s most critical cyber infrastructure and are partnering with Majority Leader Harry Reid and others to pass legislation this year.

• Ten Years After 9/11: Improving Emergency Communications

  

  Witnesses told the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee the ability of first responders to communicate with one another across jurisdictions and agencies has improved significantly since 9/11 but will remain incomplete without dedicated broadband spectrum that can transmit large caches of data .

• Federal Regulation: A Review of Legislative Proposals, Part II

  

  The hearing featured outside experts and advocates discussing the regulatory reform bills currently before Congress. This was a continuation of the Committee’s June 23 hearing, at which senators with regulatory reform legislation and Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs head Cass Sunstein testified.

• Ten Years After 9/11: Preventing Terrorist Travel

  

  Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., and Ranking Member Susan Collins, R-Maine, pressed Administration officials about continuing gaps in our defenses against terrorist travel, including inadequate security in visa processing, a large backlog of visa overstays in this country, and our failure to implement biometric information-sharing programs with our allies.

• Federal Regulation: A Review of Legislative Proposals

  

  The first panel consisted of several senators discussing their own regulatory reform bills, and the second panel looked at how reform efforts would impact the regulatory process.

• See Something, Say Something, Do Something: Next Steps for Rail and Transit

  

  Witnesses: John Pistole, TSA Administrator Peter Boynton, Commissioner for the CT Department of Emergency Management and Homeland Security Dr. Stephen Flynn, President of the Center for National Policy

• Transforming Lives Through Diabetes Research

  

  This was the seventh biennial hearing held in conjunction with the Juvenile Diabetes Research Founadation and focused on the JDRF’s work and efforts to find a cure.

• How to Save Taxpayer Dollars: Case Studies of Duplication in the Federal Government

  

  The hearing, sparked by a recent report by the Government Accountability Office, examined how the federal government can save taxpayer dollars by reducing duplication and fragmentation in agencies and programs.

• Ten Years After 9/11: Is Intelligence Reform Working? Part II

  

  This was the third in a year-long series of hearings to assess the progress made since 9/11 and the work still left to be done to protect the American people from terrorist attacks. The hearing measured the headway made in intelligence reforms proposed by the 9/11 Commission and enacted by Congress in 2004.

• May 18 Markup

  

  The Committee passed legislation to reform the Federal Protective Service and reauthorize three fire grant programs.

• Ten Years After 9/11 Part II

  

  The hearing was the second in a year-long series assessing the progress made and the work still left to be done to protect the American people from terrorist attacks. The hearing measured the headway made in intelligence reforms proposed by the 9/11 Commission and enacted by Congress in 2004.

• May 11 Markup

  

• Securing the Border: Progress at the Federal Level

  

  The hearing was the third in a series examining the progress made in securing our borders and what still needs to be done to lay the groundwork for comprehensive immigration reform.

• Federal Regulation: How Best to Advance the Public Interest

  

• April 13 Business Meeting

  

• Securing our Borders: Progress at the Local Level

  

  The hearing was the second in a series examining the progress made in securing our borders and what may still need to be done.

• Rafael Borras Nomination Hearing

  

• Recovery and Reinvestment

  

• Securing the Border: Building on the Progress Made

  

  The hearing was the first in a series that is examining what it means to secure the border, how to measure gains that reflect a comprehensive picture of the facts on the ground, and ways to forge a pragmatic policy grounded in facts and results.

• Southern Border Violence

  

• Robert Harding Nomination

  

• Catastrophic Preparedness: How Ready Is FEMA for the Next Big Disaster?

  

  The hearing examined progress made by the Federal Emergency Management Agency since Hurricane Katrina and steps it must still take to respond effectively to catastrophes

• Christmas Day Attack Reform

  

• David Heyman Nomination

  

• Information Sharing in the Age of Wikileaks Hearing

  

  Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., and Ranking Member Susan Collins, R-Me., urged the federal government to resist the chilling effect of the disclosure of vast amounts of classified information by Wikileaks and, instead, find ways to protect shared information.

• Christmas Day Attack Watchlisting

  

• Nomination Hearing for Heather Higginbottom to be Deputy Director of OMB

  

• Chemical Security

  

• Hearing on Eliminating the Bottlenecks--Nominations Reform

  

  The hearing examined proposals to move Executive Branch nominees through the confirmation process more swiftly.

• DHS Budget

  

• Hearing on DHS Budget Request

  

  The Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee heard testimony Thursday, February 17 from Secretary Janet Napolitano about the Department of Homeland Security’s Fiscal Year 2012 budget.

• GAO Unveils Newest High Risk Program Report

  

• Fort Hood Hearing and Meeting with Victims and Families

  

  The hearing examined the findings and recommendations of the Senators’ bipartisan report on the failures of the U.S. government to prevent the November 5, 2009, massacre that killed 13 people and wounded 32 others.

• The Value of Education Choices: Saving the DC Opportunity Scholarship Program

  

  The hearing examined the value of continuing the D.C. voucher program as part of an initiative that includes additional funding for public and charter schools.

• A Ticking Time Bomb Press Conference

  

  Senators Joe Lieberman and Susan Collins released their bipartisan report on the failures of the U.S. government to prevent the November 5, 2009, shooting at the Fort Hood Army base that killed 13 people and wounded 32 others.

• Senators Lieberman and Collins release Northern Border Security Report

  

  The Senators unveiled a GAO report detailing gaps in security along the 4,000-mile-long U.S.-Canadian border.

• Intelligence Reform (Part 2)

  

• Intelligence Reform (Part 1)

  

• Markup of DHS Authorization Bill, Part I

  

  This was the Senate’s first Department of Homeland Security reauthorization bill since the Department launched operations in 2003.

• Ten Years After 9/11: Are We Safer?

  

  The hearing examined the current terrorist threat against the United States, how the threat has evolved, and what steps are needed to further strengthen our defenses. National Counterterrorism Center Director Olsen testified before Congress for the first time since his confirmation.

• Defending the Nation Since 9/11: Successful Reforms and Challenges Ahead at DHS

  

  Ten years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has matured to the point where it has significantly contributed to the nation’s security, said Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., and Ranking Member Susan Collins, R-Maine.