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2025-03-05 - Placed on the House Calendar, Calendar No. 7.
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2025-02-05
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Immigration
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This resolution would direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to send the House of Representatives a set of documents within 14 days. The documents would deal with two main topics: how the department protects its information and data, and how it recruits, hires, keeps, and manages its workers. In plain terms, the House is asking for records that show who has been given access to Homeland Security systems and data, how those access decisions are made, and what the department is doing about hiring and staffing changes under recent federal actions.
- Documents about requests from the Department of Government Efficiency for access to Homeland Security systems or data, including any access that was granted and any data that was shared.
- Records showing how Homeland Security reviews requests for access to its systems or data, and its rules for giving non-employees or non-contractors access.
- Information about whether and how employee data may have been accessed by the Office of Personnel Management for non-routine purposes, including any security concerns tied to that access.
- Details on staffing actions, including the federal hiring freeze, pending and accepted job offers that have not yet led to onboarding, the deferred resignation program, and how the department decided which workers count as national security employees for these purposes.
Official Summaries
This resolution directs the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to transmit to the House of Representatives documentation relating to the security of DHS information and the recruitment and retention of the DHS workforce, particularly relating to Department of Government Efficiency and Office of Personnel Management access to DHS data.
Current Full Text
[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 113 Reported in House (RH)]
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House Calendar No. 7
119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. RES. 113
[Report No. 119-11]
Directing the Secretary of Homeland Security to transmit to the House
of Representatives certain documents relating to Department of Homeland
Security policies and activities related to the security of Department
information and data and the recruitment and retention of its
workforce.
_______________________________________________________________________
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
February 5, 2025
Mr. Thompson of Mississippi submitted the following resolution; which
was referred to the Committee on Homeland Security
March 5, 2025
Reported adversely, referred to the House Calendar, and ordered to be
printed
_______________________________________________________________________
RESOLUTION
Directing the Secretary of Homeland Security to transmit to the House
of Representatives certain documents relating to Department of Homeland
Security policies and activities related to the security of Department
information and data and the recruitment and retention of its
workforce.
Resolved, That, not later than 14 days after the date of the
adoption of this resolution, the Secretary of Homeland Security is
directed to transmit to the House of Representatives copies of any
documentation, including any document, record, memo, correspondence, or
other communication of the Department of Homeland Security or any
portion of any such documentation, of the Department relating to the
security of Department information and the recruitment and retention of
its workforce, to the extent such documentation or any portion thereof
is in the possession of the Secretary, that refers or relates to the
following:
(1) Any documentation related to requests by the Department
of Government Efficiency (as established pursuant to Executive
Order 14158) for access to Department of Homeland Security
information systems or data.
(2) Any documentation related to any access to Department
of Homeland Security information systems granted to the
Department of Government Efficiency by the Department of
Homeland Security.
(3) Any documentation related to any data supplied to the
Department of Government Efficiency by the Department of
Homeland Security.
(4) Any documentation related to how the Department of
Homeland Security evaluates requests by the Department of
Government Efficiency for access to Department of Homeland
Security information systems of data.
(5) Any documentation related to Department of Homeland
Security policies related to providing individuals who are not
employees or contractors of the Department access to Department
information systems.
(6) Any documentation related to Department of Homeland
Security policies related to providing individuals who are not
employees or contractors of the Department access to Department
data.
(7) Any documentation related to Department of Homeland
Security efforts to investigate or ascertain whether, why, and
the extent to which, employee data has been accessed by the
Office of Personnel Management for non-routine purposes, as
well as any security implications of such access.
(8) Any documentation related to implementation of a
Memorandum signed by President Trump on January 20, 2025,
ordering a ``freeze on the hiring of Federal civilian
employees''.
(9) Any documentation related to the number of individuals
with offers of employment from the Department of Homeland
Security pending on January 20, 2025, and a description of the
job offers accepted.
(10) Any documentation related to the number of individuals
who had accepted offers of employment from the Department of
Homeland Security as of January 20, 2025, who have not been
onboarded as of the date of adoption of this Resolution, and a
description of the jobs that remain vacant.
(11) Any documentation related to the number of employees
who accepted the Office of Personnel Management's deferred
resignation offer as of the date of adoption of this
Resolution, and such employees' job titles.
(12) Any documentation related to the designation of
national security employees for purposes of the January 20,
2025, Memorandum signed by President Trump ordering a ``freeze
on the hiring of Federal civilian employees'', and the January
28, 2025, deferred resignation offer from the Office of
Personnel Management.
House Calendar No. 7
119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. RES. 113
[Report No. 119-11]
_______________________________________________________________________
RESOLUTION
Directing the Secretary of Homeland Security to transmit to the House
of Representatives certain documents relating to Department of Homeland
Security policies and activities related to the security of Department
information and data and the recruitment and retention of its
workforce.
_______________________________________________________________________
March 5, 2025
Reported adversely, referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be
printed