WASHINGTON, D.C. — Rep. Gary Hollenbeck, 61, (R-OH) announced Tuesday the formation of a bipartisan Congressional Task Force on Legislative Inaction, convened specifically to investigate why Congress has been unable to pass meaningful legislation, marking the fourth such task force he has formed on the subject since 2018.

The task force, which currently has no members, no meeting dates, and no operating budget, is expected to produce a preliminary framework for a report by late 2027, at which point its findings will be referred to the House Committee on Oversight, where a previous inaction report has been pending review since March of 2021.

“The American people deserve answers,” Rep. Hollenbeck said at a press conference attended by two interns and a C-SPAN camera operator who had the wrong room. “And we are committed to forming the kind of bipartisan consensus necessary to begin the preliminary conversations that will lay the groundwork for those answers.”

“We anticipate the subcommittee scheduling meeting to convene no later than the fourth quarter of this calendar year, assuming we can confirm a quorum, which is itself dependent on the outcome of the subcommittee.”

Rep. Diane Ostrowski, 54, (D-WI), the task force’s presumptive co-chair, confirmed she had not been informed she was the co-chair, but said she was “open to a conversation about it” after recess.

The task force is the legislative body’s 14th active working group studying Congressional dysfunction. Eleven of the previous thirteen have since become inactive without producing findings.

At press time, the task force had been officially dissolved to make room for a new bipartisan task force investigating what happened to the previous task forces.