1. United States
2. N.H.
3. Letter

On July 22, your office confirmed receipt of my letter and told me your team was reviewing it. That was four weeks ago. I have received no answer. A confirmation of receipt is not a response. I am your constituent in Windham, and the author of a study documenting how democratic accountability is being dismantled in this country. The method is consistent, and it is the reason this draws so little notice: the statute is left standing while the machinery that enforces it is withdrawn. Nothing below requires you to take my word for it. Every item is public record, and I have dated each one so your staff can verify it. Start with the civil service. In June, an executive order moved roughly 8,000 career positions into Schedule Policy/Career, stripping the right to appeal adverse actions to the Merit Systems Protection Board. OPM Director Scott Kupor described the effect in his own words: those employees can now "be removed effectively at-will." No statute was amended. The protections were administrative, so they were removed administratively. You know this already. You cosponsored H.R. 492, the Saving the Civil Service Act, on March 14, 2025, and that bill was written to prohibit this exact mechanism. Fifteen months later, the thing it exists to prevent happened anyway. Then the enforcement agencies. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's capacity was cut through a reorganization and funding reductions, as documented by the Government Accountability Office in February 2026. Not one of the statutes the Bureau enforces was repealed. The laws remain. The people who enforced them do not. Then the contractors. Executive Order 14173, signed January 21, 2025, revoked Executive Order 11246, which had required federal contractors to maintain equal-employment programs since September 1965. The same order revoked Executive Order 13672, which had extended those protections based on sexual orientation and gender identity, and the sixty-year obligation ended by signature, with no vote taken. Then Title IX, which is the clearest case and the one argued in the worst faith. No one has repealed Title IX. The statute is untouched, and anyone who tells you the law is safe is telling you something true and useless. What was dismantled is the office that enforces it. In March 2025, roughly half of the Office for Civil Rights' 575 employees were placed on administrative leave, and seven of its twelve regional offices were closed. The Government Accountability Office reported on January 29, 2026, that between March and September 2025, the office received more than 9,000 discrimination complaints, resolved more than 7,000, and dismissed roughly 90% of those it resolved. Those personnel actions were rescinded in January 2026, after the dismissals had already happened. A dismissed complaint does not un-dismiss when the staff comes back. The public justification for reopening Title IX has been transgender athletes. On December 17, 2024, before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Senator Durbin asked NCAA President Charlie Baker how many transgender athletes compete in the NCAA. His answer was "less than 10," out of roughly 510,000 college athletes. Fewer than ten people are the stated reason for an enforcement collapse that swept up nine thousand complaints from students of every kind: girls reporting sexual assault, disabled students denied accommodation, children facing racial harassment. The complaints were real and numerous. The justification was neither. The girls this was supposedly protecting are the same girls whose assault complaints were dismissed by the office that existed to investigate them. That is what a scapegoat is for. Small enough that defending them costs you something. Visible enough to justify anything done in their name. None of this is accidental. In December 2025, PBS NewsHour reviewed independent trackers of the Project 2025 agenda and found roughly half of it enacted, including about forty percent of the provisions restricting reproductive freedom. This is a published plan being executed on schedule, and the execution rate is measurable. Women are a target of that design, not a side effect. A constitutional right held for nearly fifty years was withdrawn in Dobbs. Women working full-time are paid 81 cents for every dollar paid to men, down from 83 cents the year before and 84 cents the year before that, the first consecutive widening of the wage gap since the 1960s. Black women are paid 65 cents against the white male dollar. The CDC reports that Black women die of pregnancy-related causes at roughly three times the rate of white women, and that the disparity holds at every level of education, which forecloses the argument that this is about income or schooling rather than race. The erasure is not only rhetorical. After the executive order directing agencies to strip "gender ideology" from public materials, federal health agencies took down reproductive-health and LGBTQ-related data and guidance. The CDC's abortion surveillance page tells it most plainly: the most recent report covers 2022, and the page has not been updated since November 27, 2024. That report was published annually for decades. Two cycles have passed with nothing. The requirement to collect the data was never repealed. The collection stopped. A government that stops counting something has stopped being accountable for it. In March 2026, the United States stood alone at the UN Commission on the Status of Women, voting against the agreed conclusions on strengthening women's access to justice. The measure passed 37 to 1, the first time in the Commission's history that an outcome document could not be adopted by consensus, because this country refused. I am not asking you to acknowledge these facts. I am demanding that you act on them. First, H.R. 492. It has 108 cosponsors, has never left the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and shows no recorded action since September 16, 2025. You are the only member of the New Hampshire delegation on it, and I give you full credit for that. Credit is not the same as result. I am not asking whether you support the bill. Your name is on it. I am asking what you have done to move it since March 2025 and what you will do over the next 60 days: a discharge petition, a markup request, a floor amendment, an appropriations rider. Name the mechanism and name the date. Second, restore staffing at the Office for Civil Rights, reopen closed regional offices, and require the Department to publish complaint dispositions by category so the public can see what is being dismissed and on what grounds. Third, reinstate the federal-contractor equal-employment framework revoked by Executive Order 14173. Fourth, restore and fund the CFPB's enforcement authority. You sit on the Committee on Small Business. Federal contracting and CFPB enforcement both fall within its interest, and that is a seat from which you can call a hearing. Fifth, codify the anti-discrimination and reproductive protections now being erased by administrative fiat. Sixth, reverse this country's position on women's rights at the United Nations. Every one of these was created or destroyed without legislation. That is the point. Accountability that can be removed by rule can be restored by law, and the legislated version is the only one that survives the next administration. That is your job. I have now written twice. The first time I received a form acknowledgment and a newsletter signup. This letter is going to the constituents who signed my campaigns on this subject. I will publish your reply. If there is no reply, I will publish that, with the date of this letter and the date of the acknowledgment. I expect a written response stating what you will do, and by when.