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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 2742
To prevent fraud, waste, and abuse by requiring the Administrator of the
United States Department of Government Efficiency Service to provide
weekly reports to Congress regarding changes DOGE has made to any
Federal agency and the realized impacts of such changes, and for other
purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
APRIL8, 2025
Mr. S
CHNEIDER(for himself and Mr. LYNCH) introduced the following bill;
which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
A BILL
To prevent fraud, waste, and abuse by requiring the Admin-
istrator of the United States Department of Government
Efficiency Service to provide weekly reports to Congress
regarding changes DOGE has made to any Federal agen-
cy and the realized impacts of such changes, and for
other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘DOGE Accountability 4
and Transparency Act’’. 5
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SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 1
Congress finds the following: 2
(1) Congress has a responsibility to review, 3
monitor, supervise, and evaluate the actions of the 4
executive branch to provide effective oversight as a 5
co-equal branch of Government. 6
(2) The authority of the Congress to provide 7
oversight and obtain information from the executive 8
branch is firmly established and essential to its leg-9
islative function derived from Article I of the Con-10
stitution. 11
(3) The Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 12
established that ‘‘each standing committee of the 13
Senate and the House of Representatives shall exer-14
cise continuous watchfulness of the execution by the 15
administrative agencies concerned of any laws, the 16
subject matter of which is within the jurisdiction of 17
such committee; and, for that purpose, shall study 18
all pertinent reports and data submitted to the Con-19
gress by the agencies in the executive branch of the 20
Government.’’ 21
(4) On January 20, 2025, President Donald 22
Trump issued an executive order to reorganize the 23
U.S. Digital Service as the U.S. Department of Gov-24
ernment Efficiency (DOGE) Service and directs 25
DOGE to ‘‘implement the President’s DOGE Agen-26
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da, by monitoring Federal technology and software 1
to maximize governmental efficiency and produc-2
tivity.’’ 3
(5) DOGE has pushed for large-scale reduc-4
tions in force and office closures (often arbitrarily 5
and capriciously), which will have a significant ad-6
verse impact on the ability of agencies to serve citi-7
zens of the United States. 8
(6) Reductions in Force (RIFs) and scaling 9
back, or completely eliminating programs at Federal 10
agencies should be based on real and transparent 11
analysis and formal, deliberate program evaluation, 12
not for the purposes of pursuing personal vendettas 13
or yielding personal financial gain for well-connected 14
individuals. 15
(7) The illogical and erratic, chainsaw approach 16
of DOGE has sown confusion and chaos for employ-17
ees at Federal agencies and the citizens of the 18
United States alike. 19
(8) The citizens of the United States expect 20
and deserve ongoing transparency of the actions of 21
the Federal Government, particularly when their 22
personal, private data is concerned. 23
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SEC. 3. DEPARTMENT OF GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY AC-1
TIVITY AND IMPACT REPORTS. 2
(a) W
EEKLYREPORT.—Not later than 1 week after 3
the date of the enactment of this Act, and weekly there-4
after, the Administrator of the United States Department 5
of Government Efficiency Service shall provide to Con-6
gress a report regarding any action DOGE has taken with 7
respect to each Federal agency and the cumulative impact 8
of actions taken to date, including the following: 9
(1) Each statutory authorization supporting 10
each such change. 11
(2) Any change in the number of employees at 12
the respective Federal agency, including any em-13
ployee that has resigned, been removed, or had their 14
position eliminated. 15
(3) A description of each specific change DOGE 16
has made to the respective Federal agency, including 17
to an office within such agency. 18
(4) Any cost-saving measure. 19
(5) Any policy change. 20
(6) Any physical change to a Federal agency 21
structure or location, including moving a Federal 22
agency to a different building and relocating employ-23
ees. 24
(7) A description of any Federal agency data 25
accessed by DOGE, the name of the individual who 26
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accessed such data, the purpose for such access, and 1
what was done with such data. 2
(8) The realized versus expected benefits of 3
DOGE actions to date. 4
(b) I
NITIALREPORT.—Not later than 1 week after 5
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Administrator 6
shall submit to Congress a report of any DOGE activity 7
listed under subsection (a) that occurred between January 8
20, 2025, and the date of the enactment of this Act. 9
(c) D
EFINITIONS.—In this section: 10
(1) DOGE.—The term ‘‘DOGE’’ means the 11
United States DOGE Service (commonly referred to 12
as the Department of Government Efficiency). 13
(2) F
EDERAL AGENCY .—The term ‘‘Federal 14
agency’’ has the meaning given the term ‘‘agency’’ 15
in section 551 of title 5, United States Code. 16
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