To prohibit any hiring freeze from affecting the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Never voted on. It didn't reach a floor vote before the 115th Congress ended, so it expired. A bill has to be introduced again to be considered in a new Congress.

KSD SchraderSponsor

98 cosponsors · 96 D, 2 R

SMD Moulton EBD Blumenauer MBD Bordallo SBD Bonamici JCD Courtney DCD Cicilline PDD DeFazio SDD DelBene JDD Delaney WJR Jones RKD Kind DKD Kilmer SLD Lynch BLD Luján MLD Lujan Grisham CMD Maloney SMD Murphy TOD O’Halleran CPD Peterson EPD Perlmutter CPD Pingree SPD Peters LRD Roybal-Allard LSD Sánchez DSD Scott JSD Sarbanes CSD Shea-Porter BSD Schneider KSD Sinema MTD Thompson DTD Titus MTD Takano JVD Vargas FVD Vela TWD Walz JCD Costa JCD Chu DED Evans TGD Gabbard DLD Lipinski BMD McCollum CRD Ruppersberger TRD Ryan BWD Watson Coleman JCD Correa JKD Kennedy GND Napolitano BOD O’Rourke BPD Pascrell GSD Sablan NTD Tsongas JBD Beatty JBD Brownley JGD Garamendi RGD Gallego JMD McGovern DDD Dingell WKD Keating DSD Soto AAD Adams SBD Bishop BHD Higgins JLD Lewis KRD Rice JSD Schakowsky NTD Torres ALD Lowenthal JRD Raskin LSD Slaughter ASD Sires KCD Clark RKD Khanna BSD Scott WCD Clay TCD Cárdenas AGD Green AHD Hastings PJD Jayapal CBD Bustos MQD Quigley BRD Rush SCD Carbajal JCD Castro CCD Crist NLD Lowey GMD Meeks BMR Mast JRD Rosen JSD Serrano SCD Cohen FPD Pallone PWD Welch MDD DeSaulnier ASD Smith AKD Kuster NBD Barragán RLD Larsen DND Norcross

1 signed on when it was introduced; the rest joined later. Cosponsors who withdrew aren't shown.

This bill declares that the memorandum titled "Presidential Memorandum Regarding the Hiring Freeze" published on January 23, 2017, or any other substantially similar memorandum, executive order, or other action by the President to prevent a department or agent of the federal government from filing vacant federal civilian employee positions or creating new…