Of inquiry requesting the President, and directing the Secretary of Health and Human Services, to transmit respectively, to the House of Representatives certain documents relating to the elimination of the Administration for Community Living-.
H. Res. 344 is a House resolution of inquiry introduced in the 119th Congress that directs the President and the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide unredacted documents to the House within 14 days related to the potential elimination of the Administration for Community Living (ACL). The resolution seeks a broad set of materials—ranging from memos and meeting notes to emails and other communications—about the proposed elimination, downsizing actions, and related changes prompted by a March 27, 2025 HHS transformation initiative. It also requests information on leadership dismissals, staff sufficiency to enforce key laws, and any decisions to terminate ACL-funded grants. The measure is a mechanism for congressional oversight and political pressure, not a bill that by itself enacts policy. It has been referred to the Committee on Education and Workforce and, if advanced, would require passage by the House and Senate and presidential assent to become law.
Key Points
- 1The President and the Secretary of Health and Human Services must transmit unredacted copies of all documents and communications to the House within 14 days of adoption, relating to the elimination of the ACL.
- 2The requested materials cover: (1) proposed elimination of the ACL; (2) any reduction in force or downsizing at ACL; (3) actions taken under HHS’s March 27, 2025 transformation announcement and accompanying fact sheet that altered ACL functions; (4) any actions to dismiss career leadership staff within ACL; (5) determinations that remaining staff could faithfully enforce laws under the Older Americans Act, the Assistive Technology Act, the Developmental Disabilities Act, and the Rehabilitation Act; (6) any actions to terminate ACL- administered grants.
- 3The resolution repeatedly seeks “unredacted” documents, including notes from meetings, emails, phone records, and other communications in the possession of the President or the Secretary.
- 4The measure was introduced by a bipartisan group of House members (Bonamici, Scott of Virginia, Wilson, Takano, Hayes, Omar, DeSaulnier) and referred to the Committee on Education and Workforce.
- 5This is a legislative inquiry, not a substantive policy change or appropriation; its effect would be to compel disclosure and potentially inform future policy or legislative actions.