Federal Agency Performance Act of 2024

Floor Speech

I rise in support of the Federal Agency Performance Act. I also thank my colleagues, the gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Timmons) and the gentleman from California (Mr. Khanna), for leading this bill to modernize the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993, which we refer to as GPRA, I believe.

I am pleased to support this bipartisan legislation. I thank Senator Peters, the chair of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, for his leadership of the bill on the Senate side.

GPRA established a performance management framework in 1993 for Federal Government agencies. It was last modernized in 2010, so we are overdue serious attention to make sure the framework is operating as effectively and smoothly as it can.

This bill would promote both accountability and transparency. It would codify OMB's practice of conducting regular strategic reviews of Federal agency performance goals, and it would also set new requirements to improve publicly available data on performance.gov, allowing the public greater transparency into agency progress toward the goals that have been set forth.

The bill makes commonsense updates to ensure agencies are providing services to the people as efficiently and as effectively as possible, which is why we have a government, to serve the people.

I encourage all my colleagues to support this bill, and I reserve the balance of my time.

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Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Speaker, I have no further speakers. I urge everybody to pass this, and I yield back the balance of my time.

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