United States HR 6911: ROBERT MALLEY Act

Bill Text

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118TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION H. R. 6911
To require heads of executive agencies to, upon request, submit to relevant
congressional committees information regarding the furlough or indefinite
suspension without pay of employees of such executive agencies, and
for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JANUARY 2, 2024
Ms. TENNEY introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Oversight and Accountability
A BILL
To require heads of executive agencies to, upon request,
submit to relevant congressional committees information
regarding the furlough or indefinite suspension without
pay of employees of such executive agencies, and for
other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Requiring Officials and 4
Bureaucrats to Expeditiously Reliquinsh Testimony and 5
Meaningful Answers about Lawbreaking and Locked out 6
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Employees Yesterday Act’’ or the ‘‘ROBERT MALLEY 1
Act’’. 2
SEC. 2. SENSE OF CONGRESS. 3
It is the sense of Congress that— 4
(1) the Government of the United States must 5
be transparent with the American people and with 6
Congress; 7
(2) the executive branch should never obstruct 8
the right of Congress to investigate and conduct 9
oversight; 10
(3) individuals that conspire with State Spon-11
sors of Terror or foreign terrorist organizations 12
should be held accountable to the fullest extent of 13
the law; and 14
(4) individuals that knowingly hire, or attempt 15
to convince others to hire, intelligence assets for for-16
eign nations are guilty of treason. 17
SEC. 3. FURLOUGH AND INDEFINITE SUSPENSION EXPLA-18
NATIONS. 19
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 15 days after the 20
head of an executive agency receives a request from the 21
Chairman or Ranking Member of an appropriate congres-22
sional committee for an explanation why an employee of 23
such executive agency was furloughed or suspended indefi-24
nitely without pay, such head of an executive agency shall 25
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submit to the Chairman or Ranking Member making such 1
request an explanation of the reasoning for such employee 2
being furloughed or suspended indefinitely without pay, 3
including any relevant information and evidence collected 4
in the course of an investigation prior to intervention by 5
a law enforcement agency. 6
(b) EXCLUSIONS.—Subsection (a) shall not apply 7
with respect to employees— 8
(1) suspended or furloughed pursuant to an ac-9
tion initiated under section 1215 of title 5, United 10
States Code; or 11
(2) furloughed as a result of a lapse in appro-12
priations. 13
(c) FORM.—An explanation required by subsection 14
(a) shall be in an unclassified form, but may contain a 15
classified annex. 16
(d) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 17
(1) APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMIT-18
TEES.—The term ‘‘appropriate congressional com-19
mittees’’ means— 20
(A) the Committees of the Senate and 21
House of Representatives with jurisdiction over 22
the executive agency; 23
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(B) the Committee on Oversight and Ac-1
countability of the House of Representatives; 2
and 3
(C) the Committee on Homeland Security 4
and Governmental Affairs of the Senate. 5
(2) EXECUTIVE AGENCY.—The term ‘‘executive 6
agency’’ has the meaning given such term in section 7
105 of title 5, United States Code. 8
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