National Fraud Enforcement Division Act of 2026

What this does

This bill establishes a National Fraud Enforcement Division within the Department of Justice, under the authority of the Attorney General. The Division is headed by an Assistant Attorney General for National Fraud Enforcement, appointed under the Department's existing appointment authority and designated by the President. The Assistant Attorney General performs whatever duties the Attorney General assigns; the bill does not itself specify the Division's investigative powers or enforcement priorities. The bill also extends the political-activity restrictions that already cover Criminal Division employees under the Hatch Act to employees of the new Division.

House vote · 352-72

Democrats

139–72

Republicans

212–0

Independents

1–0

How we know · 4 sourced claims

Establishes a National Fraud Enforcement Division within the Department of Justice, under the authority of the Attorney General.Source: Sec. 2(a), adding section 509C(a) to chapter 31 of title 28, United States Code
The Division is headed by an Assistant Attorney General for National Fraud Enforcement, appointed under the Department of Justice's existing appointment authority and designated by the President.Source: Sec. 2(a), new section 509C(b)
The Assistant Attorney General for National Fraud Enforcement performs whatever duties the Attorney General assigns; the bill does not itself specify the Division's investigative powers.Source: Sec. 2(a), new section 509C(c)
The bill extends the political-activity restrictions that already apply to Criminal Division employees under the Hatch Act to also cover employees of the new National Fraud Enforcement Division.Source: Sec. 2(c), amending section 7323(b)(3) of title 5, United States Code

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Reported lobbying

No organization named this measure in a lobbying filing we could read with confidence.

That is not a finding that nobody lobbied it. The disclosure form takes a free text description of the issue, and a reference that could not be pinned to exactly one measure is refused rather than guessed. This bill may have been lobbied without being named, or named in words we would not risk reading as this bill.

From the LD-2 quarterly lobbying filings published at lda.gov by the Senate Office of Public Records. Read for 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1 and 2026 Q2. The pull came up 2 short in 2025 Q4 and 7 short in 2026 Q2 against the register's own count, so those quarters are the filings posted rather than every one filed. 2026 Q3 is still inside its filing window, so that quarter is only the filings posted so far.

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R212–0D139–72I1–0

Position

Party

State

Republicans

218

Democrats

214

Independents

YeaKevin KileyCA · District 3