[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6911 Introduced in House (IH)]

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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.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 2, 2024

  Ms. Tenney introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
               Committee on Oversight and Accountability

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                                 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 Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Requiring Officials and Bureaucrats 
to Expeditiously Reliquinsh Testimony and Meaningful Answers about 
Lawbreaking and Locked out Employees Yesterday Act'' or the ``ROBERT 
MALLEY Act''.

SEC. 2. SENSE OF CONGRESS.

    It is the sense of Congress that--
            (1) the Government of the United States must be transparent 
        with the American people and with Congress;
            (2) the executive branch should never obstruct the right of 
        Congress to investigate and conduct oversight;
            (3) individuals that conspire with State Sponsors of Terror 
        or foreign terrorist organizations should be held accountable 
        to the fullest extent of the law; and
            (4) individuals that knowingly hire, or attempt to convince 
        others to hire, intelligence assets for foreign nations are 
        guilty of treason.

SEC. 3. FURLOUGH AND INDEFINITE SUSPENSION EXPLANATIONS.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 15 days after the head of an 
executive agency receives a request from the Chairman or Ranking Member 
of an appropriate congressional committee for an explanation why an 
employee of such executive agency was furloughed or suspended 
indefinitely without pay, such head of an executive agency shall submit 
to the Chairman or Ranking Member making such request an explanation of 
the reasoning for such employee being furloughed or suspended 
indefinitely without pay, including any relevant information and 
evidence collected in the course of an investigation prior to 
intervention by a law enforcement agency.
    (b) Exclusions.--Subsection (a) shall not apply with respect to 
employees--
            (1) suspended or furloughed pursuant to an action initiated 
        under section 1215 of title 5, United States Code; or
            (2) furloughed as a result of a lapse in appropriations.
    (c) Form.--An explanation required by subsection (a) shall be in an 
unclassified form, but may contain a classified annex.
    (d) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) Appropriate congressional committees.--The term 
        ``appropriate congressional committees'' means--
                    (A) the Committees of the Senate and House of 
                Representatives with jurisdiction over the executive 
                agency;
                    (B) the Committee on Oversight and Accountability 
                of the House of Representatives; and
                    (C) the Committee on Homeland Security and 
                Governmental Affairs of the Senate.
            (2) Executive agency.--The term ``executive agency'' has 
        the meaning given such term in section 105 of title 5, United 
        States Code.
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