This bill would add an Office of Inspector General to the Executive Office of the President and set rules about when certain Inspectors General can be removed from office. The President must appoint an Inspector General for the Executive Office of the President within 90 days of the law taking effect. The bill says that an Inspector General appointed by the President generally may only be removed for inefficiency, malfeasance of office, or neglect of duty. It also says Inspectors General created under section 415 (for certain designated entities) may only be removed by their agency head for those same three reasons. The bill makes an exception for Inspectors General of independent agencies; it lists many independent entities (for example, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission) that are not covered by the presidential-removal restriction. The bill also contains a technical amendment saying section 3(a)(1) of H.R. 7326 shall have the force of law and takes effect before the other changes.
If enacted, the bill would create a new Inspector General post in the Executive Office of the President and limit the reasons that many Inspectors General can be removed. That means some Inspectors General would have stronger protection from removal except for specific causes named in the bill: inefficiency, malfeasance of office, or neglect of duty. The bill leaves many independent agencies outside that removal protection.
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The members listed as sponsors introduced the measure to create an Inspector General for the Executive Office of the President and to narrow the permitted grounds for removing many Inspectors General to named causes. The text of the bill states the appointment timing and the specific removal standards.
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