Us Congress 2025-2026 Regular Session

Us Congress House Bill HR259 Latest Draft

Bill / Introduced Version Filed 03/28/2025

                            IV 
119THCONGRESS 
1
STSESSION H. RES. 259 
Of inquiry requesting the President to provide certain documents in the 
President’s possession to the House of Representatives relating to the 
access provided to the staff and advisers of, including any individual 
working for or in conjunction with, the Department of Government 
Efficiency to the systems, applications, and accounts, and any informa-
tion contained therein, of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH27, 2025 
Ms. W
ATERS(for herself, Ms. VELA´ZQUEZ, Mr. SHERMAN, Mr. MEEKS, Mr. 
D
AVIDSCOTTof Georgia, Mr. LYNCH, Mr. GREENof Texas, Mr. 
C
LEAVER, Mr. FOSTER, Mrs. BEATTY, Mr. VARGAS, Mr. VICENTEGON-
ZALEZof Texas, Mr. CASTEN, Ms. PRESSLEY, Ms. TLAIB, Mr. TORRES 
of New York, Ms. G
ARCIAof Texas, Ms. WILLIAMSof Georgia, Ms. 
P
ETTERSEN, Mr. FIELDS, Ms. BYNUM, and Mr. LICCARDO) submitted 
the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Finan-
cial Services 
RESOLUTION 
Of inquiry requesting the President to provide certain docu-
ments in the President’s possession to the House of 
Representatives relating to the access provided to the 
staff and advisers of, including any individual working 
for or in conjunction with, the Department of Govern-
ment Efficiency to the systems, applications, and ac-
counts, and any information contained therein, of the 
Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection. 
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Resolved, That the President is requested to furnish 1
to the House of Representatives, not later than 14 days 2
after the adoption of this resolution, copies of any docu-3
ment, record, memo, correspondence, or other communica-4
tion in the possession of the President relating to the fol-5
lowing: 6
(1) Excluding any individual employed by the 7
U.S. Government prior to January 20, 2025, the 8
name, age, and all professional and background ex-9
perience of every individual that is working for, or 10
in conjunction with, the Department on Government 11
Efficiency (‘‘DOGE’’), including Elon Musk, Jeremy 12
Lewin, Jordan Wick, Gavin Kliger, Nikhil Rajpal, 13
Luke Farritor, Chris Young, and Edward Coristine, 14
that have been provided access to any system, appli-15
cation, or account of the Bureau of Consumer Fi-16
nancial Protection, including public facing and inter-17
nal websites and social media accounts, physical ac-18
cess control systems, and permissioning systems, or 19
any information contained therein. 20
(2) With respect to each individual described in 21
paragraph (1)— 22
(A) which of the systems, applications, ac-23
counts, physical access control systems, 24
permissioning systems, or information therein 25
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described in paragraph (1) contained any con-1
fidential supervisory information, personally 2
identifiable information, or sensitive compart-3
mented information and, if so, what informa-4
tion was contained; 5
(B) the level of clearance, access, author-6
ization, or any type of permission required to 7
gain access to each of the systems, applications, 8
accounts, physical access control systems, 9
permissioning systems, or information con-10
tained therein; 11
(C) the level of clearance, access, author-12
ization, or any type of permission held by the 13
individual; and 14
(D) whether any of the access that the in-15
dividual obtained or plans to obtain required or 16
will require a level of clearance, access, author-17
ization, or any type of permission that the indi-18
vidual did not have or will not have at the time 19
that individual gained or will gain access. 20
(3) Any information contained in systems, ap-21
plications, accounts, physical access control systems, 22
permissioning systems, or information therein de-23
scribed in paragraph (1) (including confidential su-24
pervisory information, personally identifiable infor-25
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mation, or sensitive compartmented information) to 1
which an individual described in paragraph (1) has 2
been provided access that is not available to the pub-3
lic under section 552 of title 5, United States Code, 4
that has— 5
(A) been put into external systems, tools, 6
or locations, or otherwise shared with any other 7
person by any individual described in paragraph 8
(1); 9
(B) been copied or placed in the possession 10
of any individual described in paragraph (1); or 11
(C) been modified by any individual de-12
scribed in paragraph (1). 13
(4) With respect to the accesses described in 14
paragraph (1)— 15
(A) a list of all required steps to provide 16
individuals described in paragraph (1) with this 17
type of access (statutorily mandated or other-18
wise); and 19
(B) a list of all steps actually taken to pro-20
vide individuals described in paragraph (1) with 21
such accesses, the timeline of when such steps 22
were completed, the identity of each individual 23
who reviewed and approved the completion of 24
the required steps by each individual, and the 25
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level of clearance, access, authorization or any 1
type of permission that was granted for each in-2
dividual. 3
(5) With respect to each individuals described 4
in paragraph (1) provided with an access described 5
in paragraph (1)— 6
(A) the signed Rules of Behavior for Privi-7
leged Users Form; 8
(B) the Privileged User Access Request 9
Form, along with the required business jus-10
tification, supervisor approval, system owner 11
approval, and Information System Security 12
Manager approval; and 13
(C) a list of trainings completed, including 14
all Privileged User Trainings. 15
(6) A list of identified and potential conflicts of 16
interest implicated by individuals described in para-17
graph (1), steps taken to mitigate such conflicts of 18
interest, and the name of the individual who re-19
viewed and approved the status of each individual 20
with respect to such conflicts of interest. 21
(7) The total number of full-time equivalent 22
employees of the Bureau of Consumer Financial 23
Protection as of December 31, 2024, with a break-24
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down of the number of such full-time equivalent em-1
ployees by division and office. 2
(8) The total number of full-time equivalent 3
employees of the Bureau of Consumer Financial 4
Protection as of March 24, 2025, with a breakdown 5
of the number of such full-time equivalent employees 6
by division and office. 7
(9) The total number of full-time equivalent 8
employees of the Bureau of Consumer Financial 9
Protection that were not actively working as of 10
March 24, 2025, due to a stop-work order or being 11
placed on administrative leave, with a breakdown of 12
the number of such full-time equivalent employees 13
by division and office. 14
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