H.R. 5676 119th Congress House

Stop Stealing Our Jobs Act

Official title: To prohibit any Executive agency from terminating employees during any period in which there is a lapse in appropriations, and for other purposes.

Introduced: October 3, 2025 Introduced by: Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick Democrat · Florida See on congress.gov

Government Operations and Politics

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Oct 3, 2025

Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

Oct 3, 2025

Introduced in House

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Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Stop Stealing Our Jobs Act

This bill prohibits the President or the head of an executive agency from removing a federal employee from the civil service (e.g., as part of a reduction in force) during a lapse in discretionary appropriations (i.e., government shutdown) unless the employee is a political appointee.

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Committees of jurisdiction 1

Oversight and Government Reform Committee
House of Representatives

Lobbying activity 4

Registered lobbyists who named this bill in their disclosure filings. Source: federal Lobbying Disclosure Act filings.

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Bodies those filers lobbied

Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)
4 filings
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)
4 filings
Energy, Dept of
4 filings
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
4 filings
Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board
4 filings
Food & Drug Administration (FDA)
4 filings
General Services Administration (GSA)
4 filings
Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS)
4 filings

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Cosponsors 16

Cohen, Steve

Tennessee · Oct 31, 2025

Davis, Danny K.

Illinois · Oct 31, 2025

Ruiz, Raul

California · Oct 21, 2025

Kennedy, Timothy M.

New York · Oct 10, 2025

Pou, Nellie

New Jersey · Oct 10, 2025

Lieu, Ted

California · Oct 8, 2025

Soto, Darren

Florida · Oct 8, 2025

Thompson, Bennie G.

Mississippi · Oct 8, 2025

Barragán, Nanette Diaz

California · Oct 3, 2025

Bell, Wesley

Missouri · Oct 3, 2025

Jackson, Jonathan L.

Illinois · Oct 3, 2025

Landsman, Greg

Ohio · Oct 3, 2025

Norton, Eleanor Holmes

District of Columbia · Oct 3, 2025

Sherman, Brad

California · Oct 3, 2025

Thanedar, Shri

Michigan · Oct 3, 2025

Titus, Dina

Nevada · Oct 3, 2025

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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 5676: Stop Stealing Our Jobs Act. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-5676/

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"H.R. 5676: Stop Stealing Our Jobs Act." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-5676/.

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H.R. 5676, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-5676/.

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