House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
DRAIN THE SWAMP Act
Official title: To require the head of each Executive agency to relocate 30 percent of the employees assigned to the headquarters of the Executive agency to duty stations outside the Washington metropolitan area, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Aaron Bean R-FLWhere it went
- IntroducedFeb 13, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Feb 13, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1280.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. BEAN of Florida, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 30, February 13, 2025, Page H710):The Necessary and Proper Clause of Article 1 Section 8 The Congress shall have the power to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution . . .Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 13, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 175 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 1280, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/1280
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.
Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of December 5, 2025). Not every bill gets one.
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Vote results
No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).
Cosponsors
No cosponsors.
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Aaron Bean.
- H.R. 1049 (119th) Transparency in Reporting of Adversarial Contributions to Education Act
- H.R. 4093 (119th) Apples to Apples Comparison Act of 2025
- H.R. 8871 (119th) DME Scammer Prevention Act of 2026
- H.R. 5455 (119th) Aviation Funding Stability Act of 2025
- H.R. 3057 (119th) National POW/MIA Memorial and Museum Act
- H.R. 4311 (119th) Delivering On Government Efficiency in Spending Act
Related bills
- S. 23 (119th) DRAIN THE SWAMP ActIdentical bill
Relationships as recorded by Congress.gov.
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 13, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.