HRES 807 · 119th Congress 2025–2027

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.

Latest action · Oct 14, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

Progress

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  1. IntroducedOct 14, 2025
  2. Agreed to in HouseNot reached

Summary

This resolution requests that the President submit certain information to Congress regarding a reduction in force or the withholding of pay due to the lapse in appropriations (i.e., government shutdown) that began on October 1, 2025.

Specifically, the resolution requests that the President submit to Congress any and all documents and communications related to

  • any proposed reduction in force at a federal agency related to the lapse in appropriations,
  • 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, and
  • efforts or plans to withhold pay for the period of the lapse of appropriations for excepted or furloughed federal or District of Columbia employees.

The resolution also requests that the President submit to Congress any documents or communications between the President's office, the Vice President's office, the Office of Personnel Management, the Office of Management and Budget, the Office of Special Counsel, and the Merit System Protection Board regarding these topics. 

Cosponsors 23

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Oct 14, 2025 to Oct 17, 2025; 20 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
D-MAAyanna PressleyOriginalOct 14, 2025
D-CADave MinOriginalOct 14, 2025
D-DCEleanor Holmes NortonOriginalOct 14, 2025
D-WAEmily RandallOriginalOct 14, 2025
D-MDGlenn IveyOriginalOct 14, 2025
D-VAJames R. WalkinshawOriginalOct 14, 2025
D-TXJasmine CrockettOriginalOct 14, 2025
D-MDJohnny Olszewski, Jr.OriginalOct 14, 2025
D-CALateefah SimonOriginalOct 14, 2025
D-NMMelanie A. StansburyOriginalOct 14, 2025
D-ILRaja KrishnamoorthiOriginalOct 14, 2025
D-MIRashida TlaibOriginalOct 14, 2025
D-CARobert GarciaOriginalOct 14, 2025
D-MDSarah ElfrethOriginalOct 14, 2025
D-OHShontel M. BrownOriginalOct 14, 2025
D-MAStephen F. LynchOriginalOct 14, 2025
D-VASuhas SubramanyamOriginalOct 14, 2025
D-PASummer L. LeeOriginalOct 14, 2025
D-MOWesley BellOriginalOct 14, 2025
D-AZYassamin AnsariOriginalOct 14, 2025
D-MDApril McClain DelaneyOct 17, 2025
D-MDJamie RaskinOct 17, 2025
D-CARo KhannaOct 17, 2025

Committees 1

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ChamberCommitteeWhat it did
HouseOversight and Government Reform Committee
Referred Oct 14, 2025

Actions 2

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  1. Oct 14, 2025Submitted in House
  2. Oct 14, 2025Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

Titles 1

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Official Title as Introduced
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.

Subjects

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Text 1

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  1. Oct 14, 2025Introduced in House

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