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Senate Appropriations Approves Increased OPM Hack Credit Monitoring, No Extra IT

Thursday, July 23rd, 2015

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Senate Appropriations Approves Increased OPM Hack Credit Monitoring, No Extra IT

The Senate Appropriations Committee approved an appropriations bill Thursday that includes a requested $24 million in increased funding for the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), mostly used to address information technology (IT) vulnerabilities.The fiscal year 2016 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations bill was approved by a 16-14 vote. In the bill, OPM is allocated roughly $265 million, an increase of $24 million over the FY 15 enacted level. Although this is nearly $8 million short of the OPM February…

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