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 Employees Yesterday Act” or the “ROBERT MALLEY Act”.
Requiring Officials and Bureaucrats to Expeditiously Reliquinsh Testimony and Meaningful Answers about Lawbreaking and Locked out Employees Yesterday Act
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.
Sec. 2 Sense of Congress
It is the sense of Congress that—
the Government of the United States must be transparent with the American people and with Congress;
the executive branch should never obstruct the right of Congress to investigate and conduct oversight;
individuals that conspire with State Sponsors of Terror or foreign terrorist organizations should be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law; and
individuals that knowingly hire, or attempt to convince others to hire, intelligence assets for foreign nations are guilty of treason.
Sec. 3 Furlough and indefinite suspension explanations
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 congressional committee for an explanation why an employee of such executive agency was furloughed or suspended indefinitely without pay, such head of an executive agency shall 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.
Exclusions— Subsection (a) shall not apply with respect to employees—
suspended or furloughed pursuant to an action initiated under section 1215 of title 5, United States Code; or
furloughed as a result of a lapse in appropriations.
Form— An explanation required by subsection (a) shall be in an unclassified form, but may contain a classified annex.
Definitions— In this section:
Appropriate congressional committees— The term appropriate congressional committees means—
the Committees of the Senate and House of Representatives with jurisdiction over the executive agency;
the Committee on Oversight and Accountability of the House of Representatives; and
the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate.
Executive agency— The term executive agency has the meaning given such term in section 105 of title 5, United States Code.