The letter is the latest from Republican leaders on Capitol Hill asserting that responses to their inquiries lack the requested level of detail. Image: Rebekah Zemansky/Shutterstock.com
By: FEDweek StaffThe head of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee has continued pushing OMB on its responsiveness to letters of inquiry to the administration, repeating a request for materials on an executive order related to voting.
That 2021 order told agencies to support voting through steps such as providing information about how to register and voting options and allowing nonpartisan third parties to conduct voter registration activities on federal property.
It also opened the way for expanding paid time off for federal employees to vote or to perform roles such as poll worker; OPM in 2022 told agencies that they should allow employees up to four hours of paid time off per “election event” for such purposes.
Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., said in a letter that OMB’s response to a previous letter asking for documents and communications regarding the “drafting, implementation, and third-party organizations involved with the order” resulted only in a short response “over one month past the deadline, in which none of the requested documents or communications were produced.”
“If OMB continues to fail to produce the requested documents by September 2, 2024, the Committee will consider additional measures, including use of the compulsory process, to gain compliance and obtain this critical material,” Comer wrote, apparently alluding to the use of a subpoena.
The letter is the latest from Republican leaders on Capitol Hill asserting that responses to their inquiries lack the requested level of detail. Democratic leaders of the committee voiced similar dissatisfaction with the responses to their requests for information from agencies during the Trump administration.
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