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H.R. 1295 House Government Operations and Politics

Reorganizing Government Act of 2025

Introduced
Feb 13, 2025
Sponsor
Rep. Comer, James (R-KY-1)
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STAGE 3 OF 8 — CALENDARS AND SCHEDULING

Currently in the House. Last action: placed on the union calendar, calendar no. 397 on Jan 27, 2026.

  1. House Introduced in House Feb 13, 2025
  2. House Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. Feb 13, 2025
  3. House Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held Mar 25, 2025
  4. House Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 23 - 20. Mar 25, 2025
  5. House Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. H. Rept. 119-464, Part I. Jan 27, 2026
  6. House Committee on Rules discharged. Jan 27, 2026
  7. House Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 397. Jan 27, 2026

Cosponsors

19

Subjects

Administrative law and regulatory proceduresExecutive agency funding and structureGovernment employee pay, benefits, personnel management

Committees

  • Rules Committee
    • Discharged From , Jan 27, 2026
    • Referred To , Feb 13, 2025
  • Oversight and Government Reform Committee
    • Reported By , Jan 27, 2026
    • Markup By , Mar 25, 2025
    • Referred To , Feb 13, 2025

Summary

Reorganizing Government Act of 2025 This bill revives expedited congressional consideration of certain Presidential plans to reorganize the executive branch, expands permissible plan purposes, and changes the prohibitions on plan content. The bill reauthorizes through 2026 a currently expired authority that requires expedited congressional consideration of certain executive branch reorganization plans submitted by the President.  The bill also expands the purposes for which such reorganization plans may be undertaken, to includereducing the number of federal employees;eliminating unnecessary and burdensome rules, regulations, and other requirements; andeliminating government operations that do not serve the public interest.The bill removes the following prohibitions on the contents of such plans: creating new executive departments or renaming existing executive departments; abolishing or transferring executive departments or independent regulatory agencies or all of their functions; andconsolidating executive departments or independent regulatory agencies or all of their functions.The bill also adds a new prohibition on content, specifying that any such plan may not create a net increase in federal workers or expenditures.

Summary as of: Introduced in House

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