The House on Thursday passed a package of oversight and transparency initiatives, a grab-bag of legislative proposals that touch on everything from presidential power to federal employee whistleblower protections.
Many of them are familiar, ranging from new protections for agency inspectors general to limitations on how long acting officials can serve.
The 174-page bill, known as the Protecting Our Democracy Act, includes plenty of provisions that are relevant for federal employees, including new whistleblower protections and updates to the 80-year-old Hatch Act.
But the bill also includes an array of provisions that are a legislative reaction to issues that lawmakers grappled with during the previous administration. Provisions that, for example, ban self-pardons by the president and prohibit the acceptance of foreign or domestic emoluments, got the most attention. Other provisions require presidential candidates to disclose their tax returns, while others suspend the statute of limitations for offenses committed by a sitting president or vice president.
Republicans certainly took notice of those provisions. Only one voted for the bill Thursday, despite the fact that pieces of the legislation, including provisions expanding federal employee whistleblower protections,...
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