Account
Senate Republicans joined their House colleagues in calling on a government watchdog agency to investigate Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius soliciting donations from companies her agency might regulate -- part of an effort to sign up uninsured Americans for ObamaCare.In recent weeks, Sebelius has asked various charitable foundations, business executives, doctors and churches to donate money to nonprofit organizations that are helping implement President Obama's controversial health care overhaul.HHS says it's perfectly legal and points to a special section within the Public Health Services Act that allows the secretary to solicit financial support for nonprofits doing public health work. But others like Sens. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., and Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, argue it's a conflict of interest and want the Government Accountability Office to look into it."The Secretary's actions show an apparent disregard for constitutional principles and may violate the Antideficie...
America's enemies recognize that cyberattacks are a low-cost way to counter U.S. military might, a government watchdog agency said Monday, recommending that the Pent...
Panel reaction on what this means for spending cuts
The federal government's multi-agency approach to help the homeless is often confused, according to a recently released report that catalogues the hundreds of differ...
House Speaker John Boehner has been handed a weapon of happy destruction. The Government Accountability Office has produced a report skewering government waste that ...
Rep. Mike Rogers, (R-Ala.), on the TSA not screening foreign students at flight schools.
NORAD is considering removing two of its 18 Air Force sites from 24-hour alert, saying it would save millions of dollars without compromising its ability to defend a...
Two high-tech luxury jets that the FBI convinced Congress were needed for the fight against global terrorism have instead been used to ferry around Attorney General ...
FNC Video
Mark Levin weighs in on the controversial email exchange between the White House and Bob Woodward
A recent government report shows billions in taxpayer dollars are being swept away by pricey wind energy initiatives that often overlap, even as the IRS moves to up ...
Fingerprinting errors made by U.S. Census Bureau employees may have resulted in the hiring of 200 people with criminal backgrounds to conduct door-to-door canvassing...
We are used to hearing about fraud and government programs that fail to accomplish their goals. It now appears that yet another category might be important: duplicat...
Sen. Lamar Alexander wants the Government Accountability Office to investigate Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius' fundraising of the Affordable Care Act
America uses flawed methods to tally and analyze the deaths of children who have been maltreated, and the latest annual estimate of 1,770 such fatalities is likely t...
The Department of Transportation ’s massive budget is loaded with redundancies and duplicate programs, according to a new report on federal waste.In the recently rel...
Confirmation that the students from Kazakhstan linked to the Boston bombers and arrested last week are living in the U.S. on expired or invalid student visas has exp...
President Obama, in each of his last three State of the Union addresses, spoke urgently of the need to cut through the "red tape" in Washington. But regulatory costs...
New Government Accountability Office report finds 162 areas where services are duplicated or money is being wasted by the federal government
Private contractors received $102 million to review Medicaid fraud data, yet had only found about $20 million in overpayments since 2008, according to a new report b...