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The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform conducts vigorous oversight to uncover waste, fraud, and abuse, to improve the operations of the federal government, and to examine wrongdoing in the private sector. The Committee has legislative jurisdiction over federal procurement, civil service, management and information policy.
The following links describe some of the oversight accomplishments of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in the 110th Congress. For a summary of the Committee's legislative accomplishments, please view the legislation page.
Thursday, June 04, 2009
Paid Parental Leave Passes the House
Washington, DC – The U.S. House of Representatives today took a significant step toward improving paid parental leave benefits for federal employees who are new parents. The Federal Employees Paid Parental Leave Act of 2009 (H.R. 626), which passed the House this evening by a 258 to 154 vote, responds to the needs of tens of thousands of working families in the federal government by providing four weeks of paid parental leave for the birth, adoption, or fostering of a child.
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