House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Protect Our Watchdogs Act of 2025
Official title: To amend chapter 4 of title 5, United States Code, to establish a for-cause removal standard for Inspectors General, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Gerald Connolly D-VAWhere it went
- IntroducedMar 18, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Sep 8, 2025 — ASSUMING FIRST SPONSORSHIP - Mr. Bell asked unanimous consent that he may hereafter be considered as the first sponsor of H.R. 2181, a bill originally introduced by Representative Connolly, for the purpose of adding cosponsors and requesting reprintings pursuant to clause 7 of rule XII. Agreed to without objection.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2181.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. CONNOLLY, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 50, March 18, 2025, Page H1172):Article I, Section 8Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 18, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 20 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 2181, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/2181
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- September 9, 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 September 9, 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
32 cosponsors — 32 Democrats
0 of 32 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ), Wesley Bell (D-MO), Shontel Brown (D-OH), Greg Casar (D-TX), Joaquin Castro (D-TX), Jasmine Crockett (D-TX), Danny Davis (D-IL), Maxwell Frost (D-FL), Robert Garcia (D-CA), Jesús García (D-IL), Daniel Goldman (D-NY), Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), Henry Johnson (D-GA), Ro Khanna (D-CA), Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), Summer Lee (D-PA), Mike Levin (D-CA), Stephen Lynch (D-MA), James McGovern (D-MA), Kweisi Mfume (D-MD), Dave Min (D-CA), Joe Neguse (D-CO), Eleanor Norton (D-DC), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Emily Randall (D-WA), Lateefah Simon (D-CA), Melanie Stansbury (D-NM), Suhas Subramanyam (D-VA), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Norma Torres (D-CA) and 2 more.
More from the sponsor
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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.