To amend the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 to provide Members of Congress with access on a real-time basis to updated information about Federal awards and with access to information on payments made to individual recipients of Federal assistance and Federal employees, and for other purposes.
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
IntroducedMr. Roy (for himself, Mr. Palmer, Mr. Gosar, Mrs. Harshbarger, …
Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill requires the Office of Management and Budget to create a special, Congressional-only website portal that gives Members of Congress real-time access to detailed federal spending information. Unlike the current public transparency website, this special portal would include individual-level data showing payments to specific people who receive federal assistance (like grants or benefits) and individual federal employee salary information.
Who Benefits and How
Members of Congress and their staff benefit by gaining unprecedented access to granular federal spending data for oversight purposes. They can see exactly which individuals are receiving federal money and how much federal employees are being paid, all updated in real time rather than on a delayed basis. Government IT contractors and transparency software vendors may benefit from contracts to build and maintain this new system.
Who Bears the Burden and How
The Office of Management and Budget faces a significant implementation burden, as they must build and maintain a real-time data system within 6 months. Federal agencies must provide continuous real-time data feeds to populate the portal. Individual recipients of federal assistance (such as students with federal loans, farmers receiving subsidies, or small businesses with federal grants) and federal employees face increased privacy risks, as their individual payment information becomes accessible to all 535 Members of Congress and their staff.
Key Provisions
- Creates a separate hyperlink on the federal spending transparency website accessible only to Members of Congress (Senators, Representatives, Delegates, and Resident Commissioners)
- Expands the definition of "entity" to include individual persons for Congressional access purposes, overriding existing privacy protections
- Requires real-time updates to the Congressional portal, unlike the periodic updates for the public website
- Mandates implementation within 6 months of enactment
- Applies to both individual federal assistance recipients and individual federal employee payment data
Evidence Chain:
This summary is derived from the structured analysis below. See "Detailed Analysis" for per-title beneficiaries/burden bearers with clause-level evidence links.
Primary Purpose
Amends the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 to provide Members of Congress with a special hyperlink for real-time access to expanded federal spending data, including payments to individual recipients and federal employees
Policy Domains
Legislative Strategy
"Enhance Congressional oversight by providing legislators with granular, real-time access to federal spending data at the individual level, including information typically protected by privacy considerations"
Likely Beneficiaries
- Members of Congress
- Congressional staff conducting oversight
- Government transparency advocates
Likely Burden Bearers
- Office of Management and Budget (implementation burden)
- Individual federal grant/assistance recipients (privacy concerns)
- Federal employees (privacy concerns)
- Federal agencies (must provide real-time data)
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "the_director"
- → Director of the Office of Management and Budget
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
For purposes of providing information to Members of Congress through the special hyperlink, includes an individual recipient of Federal assistance and a Federal employee (expands beyond the original definition in subsection (a)(2)(C))
A Senator or a Representative in, or Delegate or Resident Commissioner to, the Congress
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