{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.collins.senate.gov/newsroom/omb-releases-nearly-43-million-for-cigie-following-push-by-senators-collins-grassley", "OMB Releases Nearly $4.3 Million for CIGIE Following Push by Senators Collins, Grassley", "2025-11-18", "2025", "2025-11", "Republican", "House", "GA", "Mike Collins", "C001129", "www.collins.senate.gov", "collins", "https://www.collins.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 U.S. Senators Susan Collins (R-ME) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Chairs of the U.S. Senate Committees on Appropriations and Judiciary, respectively, welcomed the Office of Management and Budget\u2019s (OMB) decision to apportion $4,287,000 for the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency (CIGIE). This decision will ensure that CIGIE can operate through January 30, consistent with the current Continuing Resolution. OMB will simultaneously be conducting a programmatic review of CIGIE\u2019s activities. OMB\u2019s actions follow Senators Collins and Grassley\u2019s recent letter to OMB Director Russell Vought urging the prompt release of funding for CIGIE and the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee (PRAC), and Grassley\u2019s call last year for CIGIE to clarify its reporting of spending records.\n\n\u201cWe are pleased that following our continued outreach, OMB is releasing the funding that Congress provided for CIGIE to continue its vital work,\u201d said Senators Collins and Grassley. \u201cThis action, building on OMB\u2019s earlier decision to release funding for PRAC, ensures that these important oversight entities can remain focused on delivering the accountability American taxpayers deserve. Our oversight of the Administration\u2019s actions, and CIGIE\u2019s work, will continue.\u201d\n\nSenators Collins and Grassley were leading proponents of the Inspector General Reform Act of 2008, which established CIGIE to address integrity, economy, and effectiveness issues that transcend government agencies and to increase the professionalism and effectiveness of inspectors general (IG) personnel by helping to establish well-trained and highly skilled IG office workforces.\n\nClick HERE to read the Senators\u2019 letter to OMB.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:52:45Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.collins.senate.gov/newsroom/omb-releases-nearly-43-million-for-cigie-following-push-by-senators-collins-grassley"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.5461519360542297, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}