Rubio Joins Bicameral Lawmakers In Requesting Information On Biden's Cataloging Of Federal Employees' Religious Beliefs

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U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) joined Senator Rick Scott (R-FL) and Congressman Daniel Webster (R-FL) in leading 40 of their colleagues in a bicameral letter to the Comptroller General of the Government Accountability Office (GAO) after the District of Columbia's Pretrial Services Agency (PSA) published a notice of its intent to create a database known as the "Employee Religious Exception Request Information System." The letter requests that GAO determine whether the notice constitutes a rule for purposes of the Congressional Review Act, which Congress can invoke to overturn an agency's action.

This records system is a central database, maintained by the Office of Management and Budget, that tracks the names, religious beliefs, and other personally identifying information of federal employees who have requested religious exemptions to the Biden Administration's COVID-19 vaccine mandate on federal employees. More than 20 federal agencies, including the Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Department of Transportation, have issued similar notices to maintain databases tracking employees' religious beliefs, and these lists will be shared between federal agencies.

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