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Introduced November 12, 2025 by H. Morgan Griffith · Last progress November 12, 2025
The bill centralizes and clarifies leadership, appointment, and personnel rules for the Library of Congress, GPO, and Copyright Office to reduce vacancies and improve operational clarity, but it concentrates appointment/removal authority with congressional leaders and reduces traditional external oversight—trading potentially faster, more stable staffing for increased politicization, less public vetting, and transitional administrative costs.
Federal employees at the Library of Congress, GPO, and Copyright Office will face clearer appointment, removal, deputy and pay rules that reduce vacancy gaps and provide leadership continuity across those agencies.
Appointments and vacancy backstops (commission processes, expedited congressional selection, and required deputy/acting provisions) will speed filling senior posts and reduce prolonged leadership vacancies.
GPO employees gain more uniform personnel protections (merit-based hiring, veterans' preferences, and Title 5-style processes), improving HR consistency and access to workplace remedies.
Many appointment and removal powers are concentrated with a small set of congressional leaders (and in some cases the Register), which risks politicizing hiring/removal and exposing agency leaders to partisan pressure.
Eliminating Senate advice-and-consent and reducing Inspector General/Librarian oversight removes layers of external accountability and public vetting of nominees, lowering transparency.
Concentrating appointment authority and enabling faster, potentially less-vetted selections increases the risk of leadership turnover and operational disruptions that could harm long-term projects and services.
Based on analysis of 10 sections of legislative text.
Reworks selection/removal for Librarian and GPO Director, creates Deputies, shifts copyright authority to the Register, requires a GPO personnel system, and makes GPO printing permissive.
Rewrites how key legislative-branch positions are chosen and managed and shifts internal authority inside the Copyright Office. It changes appointment and removal procedures for the Librarian of Congress and the Director of the Government Publishing Office (GPO), creates required Deputy positions with fallback selection processes, and clarifies pay/appointment status for those officers. It also moves many supervisory powers over copyright functions from the Librarian to the Register of Copyrights, limits the number of Associate Registers, and expands the GPO’s personnel and workplace rules. The bill requires the GPO to adopt a new human capital management system based on merit principles, extends the Congressional Accountability Act and some Title 5 workplace protections to the GPO, and converts the statutory command that most federal printing "shall be done" at GPO into permissive language allowing GPO to provide printing and publishing services. Most provisions take effect on enactment; a few appointment, pay, and personnel-system provisions phase in or take effect later (including a 180‑day delay for the human capital system).