Shutdown Fairness Act
Official title: To appropriate funds for pay and allowances of Federal employees, contract employees, and members of the Armed Forces during a lapse in appropriations, and for other purposes.
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Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and in addition to the Committees on Armed Services, Oversight and Government Reform, House Administration, and the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
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- INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE FIGHTERS
- COMMUNICATIONS WORKERS OF AMERICA
- MCCARTHY ADVANCED CONSULTING LLC
- NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LETTER CARRIERS
- NATIONAL TREASURY EMPLOYEES UNION
- AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
Bodies those filers lobbied
- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- SENATE
- Labor, Dept of (DOL)
- Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
- Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS)
- Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS)
- Agriculture, Dept of (USDA)
- Defense, Dept of (DOD)
Cite this page
U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 7137: Shutdown Fairness Act. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-7137/
"H.R. 7137: Shutdown Fairness Act." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-7137/.
H.R. 7137, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-7137/.
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