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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. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 2, 2024 
Ms. TENNEY introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Oversight and Accountability 
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 Representa-
tives 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 
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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 Spon-
sors 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 for-
eign nations are guilty of treason. 
SEC. 3. FURLOUGH AND INDEFINITE SUSPENSION EXPLA-
NATIONS. 
(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 congres-
sional committee for an explanation why an employee of 
such executive agency was furloughed or suspended indefi-
nitely without pay, such head of an executive agency shall 
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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 ac-
tion initiated under section 1215 of title 5, United 
States Code; or 
(2) furloughed as a result of a lapse in appro-
priations. 
(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
COMMIT-
TEES.—The term ‘‘appropriate congressional com-
mittees’’ means— 
(A) the Committees of the Senate and 
House of Representatives with jurisdiction over 
the executive agency; 
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(B) the Committee on Oversight and Ac-
countability 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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