119-hres807

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 807 Introduced in House

    (IH) ]

<DOC>

119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
H. RES. 807

Of inquiry requesting the President to transmit certain information to 
 the House of Representatives referring to the firings, dismissal, 
 reduction in force, or withholding of pay for the period of the lapse 
 in appropriations of furloughed employees of the United States 
 Government.

_______________________________________________________________________

 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 October 14, 2025

 Mr. Mfume (for himself, Mr. Garcia of California, Ms. Norton, Mr. 
 Lynch, Mr. Krishnamoorthi, Ms. Pressley, Ms. Tlaib, Ms. Brown, Ms. 
 Stansbury, Ms. Crockett, Mr. Ivey, Ms. Lee of Pennsylvania, Mr. 
 Olszewski, Ms. Elfreth, Ms. Randall, Mr. Subramanyam, Ms. Ansari, Mr. 
 Bell, Ms. Simon, Mr. Min, and Mr. Walkinshaw) submitted the following 
 resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and 
 Government Reform

_______________________________________________________________________

 RESOLUTION

Of inquiry requesting the President to transmit certain information to 
 the House of Representatives referring to the firings, dismissal, 
 reduction in force, or withholding of pay for the period of the lapse 
 in appropriations of furloughed employees of the United States 
 Government.

 Resolved, That the President is requested to transmit, to the 
extent that such documents are in the possession of the President, to 
the House of Representatives, not later than 14 days after the adoption 
of this resolution, in complete and unredacted form, a copy of the 
following:

    (1) Any and all documents and communications, including 
 notes from meetings, audio records, telephone and electronic 
 mail records, text and other digital messages, related to any 
 proposed reduction in force at a United States Government 
 Agency related to the Federal lapse in appropriations beginning 
 on October 1, 2025.

    (2) Any and all documents and communications, including 
 notes from meetings, audio records, telephone and electronic 
 mail records, text and other digital messages, related to 
 efforts to create a legal determination at the Office of 
 Management and Budget finding or suggesting that the Government 
 Employee Fair Treatment Act of 2019 does not create a self-
 executing requirement that furloughed Federal employees must 
 receive pay for the period in which they were furloughed during 
 a lapse in appropriations immediately after the lapse in 
 appropriations ends.

    (3) Any and all documents and communications, including 
 notes from meetings, audio records, telephone and electronic 
 mail records, text and other digital messages, related to 
 efforts or plans to withhold pay for the period of the lapse of 
 appropriations beginning on October 1, 2025, for excepted or 
 furloughed employees of the United States Government or 
 employees of the District of Columbia.

    (4) Any and all documents or communications between the 
 Office of the President, the Office of the Vice President, the 
 Office of Personnel Management, the Office of Management and 
 Budget, the Office of Special Counsel, and the Merit System 
 Protection Board related to any of the above items.
 <all>