119-hres314

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 314 Introduced in House

    (IH) ]

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
H. RES. 314

 Of inquiry requesting the President and directing the Secretary of 
Health and Human Services to transmit, respectively, certain documents 
to the House of Representatives relating to the effect on taxpayer and 
 child privacy of the seizure by the so-called ``Department of 
 Government Efficiency'' of legally-protected identity and financial 
 data stored in the National Directory of New Hires and the Federal 
 Parent Locator Service.

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 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 April 9, 2025

Mr. Davis of Illinois (for himself, Mr. Neal, Mr. Doggett, Mr. Thompson 
of California, Mr. Larson of Connecticut, Ms. Sanchez, Ms. Sewell, Ms. 
 DelBene, Ms. Chu, Ms. Moore of Wisconsin, Mr. Boyle of Pennsylvania, 
 Mr. Beyer, Mr. Evans of Pennsylvania, Mr. Schneider, Mr. Panetta, Mr. 
 Gomez, Mr. Horsford, Ms. Plaskett, and Mr. Suozzi) submitted the 
 following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and 
 Means

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 RESOLUTION

 Of inquiry requesting the President and directing the Secretary of 
Health and Human Services to transmit, respectively, certain documents 
to the House of Representatives relating to the effect on taxpayer and 
 child privacy of the seizure by the so-called ``Department of 
 Government Efficiency'' of legally-protected identity and financial 
 data stored in the National Directory of New Hires and the Federal 
 Parent Locator Service.

 Resolved, That the President of the United States is requested, and 
the Secretary of Health and Human Services is directed, to transmit, to 
the extent that such documents are in the possession of the President 
or the Secretary, to the House of Representatives, not later than 14 
days after the date of adoption of this resolution, copies of any 
document, record, audio recording, memorandum, call log, correspondence 
(electronic or otherwise), activity logs, audit trails, audit logs, 
written agreements, or other communication or any portion of any such 
communication, that refers or relates to the following:

    (1) Any request from the United States DOGE Service 
 (commonly referred to as the ``Department of Government 
 Efficiency'' or ``DOGE''), and any authorization provided to 
 DOGE, to access any information on any American worker which is 
 protected under 

section 453 of the Social Security Act or 
 

section 6103 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and stored in 
 the National Database of New Hires (in this resolution referred 
 to as ``NDNH'').

    (2) The location of, and data security protections applied 
 to, any copies of all or part of the data made by DOGE 
 employees.

    (3) Prior legal opinions or other internal communications 
 regarding requests to access NDNH data for purposes not 
 specified in such 

section 453 or without a negotiated 
 memorandum of understanding setting forth conditions of access, 
 limiting the number of individuals with access, or requiring 
 training, background checks, and other qualifications for those 
 individuals accessing the data.

    (4) Any request from DOGE for any confidential financial 
 information or personally identifiable information of more than 
 40,000,000 Americans, including over 19,000,000 which is stored 
 in the Federal Parent Locator Service (in this resolution 
 referred to as ``FPLS''), which is used to facilitate child 
 support payments to children from non-custodial parents.

    (5) Staff terminations, retirements, or resignations of 
 employees of the Department of Health and Human Services with 
 responsibilities related to the FPLS or the NDNH after the date 
 of the first request by DOGE for information stored in the 
 Federal Case Registry.

    (6) Any attempt by DOGE employees to access information 
 obtained pursuant to 

section 453

    (a)

    (2) of the Social Security 
 Act.
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