S 3088 · 111th Congress 2009–2011, ended

Reduce Bureaucracy Act

Introduced Mar 8, 2010 Originated Senate Sponsor Russell D. Feingold D-WI

Fact sheet

Latest action · Mar 8, 2010 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

Progress

Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.

  1. IntroducedMar 8, 2010
  2. Passed SenateNot reached
  3. Passed HouseNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

Reduce Bureaucracy Act - Directs the President, acting through the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), to take such actions as necessary to ensure that the total number of political appointees shall not exceed 2,000. Defines "political appointee" to mean any individual who: (1) is employed in specified positions at Levels I through V of the Executive Schedule; (2) is a limited term appointee, limited emergency appointee, or noncareer appointee in the senior executive service; or (3) is employed in a position in the executive branch of a confidential or policy-determining character.

Cosponsors 1

Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on Mar 8, 2010.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
R-AZJohn McCainOriginalMar 8, 2010

Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Mar 8, 2010Introduced in Senate
  2. Mar 8, 2010Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
  3. Mar 8, 2010Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1263)

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Government Operations and Politics.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

  1. Mar 8, 2010Introduced in Senate

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