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Bill· HRH.R. 2499 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 23 March 2026
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Age Discrimination Title II: Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 Title III: Disabilities Title IV: Family and Medical Leave Title V: Guidelines Title VI: Effective Date Congressional Coverage for Discrimination and Family Leave Act - Title I: Age Discrimination - Amends the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (the Act) to cover employees in the House of Representatives and in instrumentalities of the Congress. Authorizes an aggrieved employee to bring a civil action in the appropriate district court against an employing authority or instrumentality of the Congress. Authorizes the court to order such relief, including damages, attorney's fees, and other costs provided by this Act. Requires the employing authority to reimburse the Federal account of the House with non-Federal funds for any damages paid out of the account on behalf of an aggrieved employee. Title II: Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 - Amends the Civil Rights Act of 1991 to authorize an employee in the House of Representatives or in an instrumentality of the Congress to bring a civil action in the appropriate United States district court against his or her employing authority or the appropriate instrumentality. Authorizes the court to order such relief specified under the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Revised Statutes. Limits the aggregate amount of compensatory and punitive damages to $50,000. Authorizes the complaining party to demand a jury trial. Prohibits the court from informing the jury of the dollar limitation imposed under this Act. Authorizes the court to allow the prevailing party a reasonable attorney's fees (including expert witness fees) as part of the costs. Requires the employing authority to reimburse the Federal account of the House with non-Federal funds for any damages paid out of the account on behalf of an aggrieved employee. Title III: Disabilities - Amends the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 to authorize an employee in the House of Representatives or in an instrumentality of the Congress to bring a civil action in the appropriate district court against his or her employing authority or the appropriate instrumentality. Authorizes the court to order such relief specified under the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Revised Statutes. Limits the aggregate amount of compensatory and punitive damages to $50,000. Authorizes the complaining party to demand a jury trial. Prohibits the court from informing the jury of the dollar limitation imposed under this Act. Authorizes the court to allow the prevailing party a reasonable attorney's fees (including expert witness fees) as part of the costs. Requires the employing authority to reimburse the Federal account of the House with non-Federal funds for any damages paid out of the account on behalf of an aggrieved employee. Title IV: Family and Medical Leave - Amends the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (the Act) to authorize an employee to bring a civil action in the appropriate United States district court against the employee's employing authority or the appropriate instrumentality of the Congress. Authorizes the court to order such relief, including damages, interest, attorney's fees, expert witness fees, and other costs specified by the Act. Applies the rights and protections under title I of the Act to employees of each instrumentality of the Congress, except for the exemption concerning highly compensated employees. Title V: Guidelines - Requires implementing guidelines issued by any House committee for this Act to be published in the Congressional Record at least 60 days before such implementation. Title VI: Effective Date - Makes this Act effective three months after the date of enactment.
Bill· HRH.R. 1763 (104th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 23 March 2026
Federal Agency Sunset Act of 1995 - Requires congressional review of executive agencies and programs every seven years to determine if they are needed, with subsequent agency and program funding after the first review conditioned upon completion of the scheduled review.
Bill· HRH.R. 215 (104th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 23 March 2026
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Changes in Discretionary Spending Limits Title II: Miscellaneous Amendments to the Rules of the House of Representatives Title III: Economic and Employment Impact Statements Title IV: Applicability of Freedom of Information Act Truth in Voting Act of 1995 - Title I: Changes in Discretionary Spending Limits - Establishes the Deficit Reduction Trust Fund consisting of amounts contained in deficit reduction lock box provisions of appropriations Acts. Reduces discretionary spending limits by amounts transferred to the Fund. Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to require that amounts resulting from reduced spending under general appropriations bills be placed in the Fund. Requires the Congressional Budget Office to score all general appropriations measures as passed by the House and Senate and to publish such scorecard in the Congressional Record. Title II: Miscellaneous Amendments to the Rules of the House of Representatives - Amends rule XI of the Rules of the House of Representatives to prohibit the Committee on Rules from reporting any rule for the consideration of a measure commonly known as a "king of the hill" rule. Repeals rule XLIX (statutory limit on the public debt). Amends rule XXVIII to prohibit conference committee reports from funding any program or activity at a level higher than that contained in the bill or resolution as passed by the House or Senate or from funding any program not contained in such versions. Title III: Economic and Employment Impact Statements - Requires the Comptroller General to prepare an economic and employment impact statement to accompany each bill, resolution, or conference report reported by a committee or considered on the floor. Makes it out of order to consider any legislation that is not accompanied by such statement unless the point of order is waived by a two-thirds vote. Requires regulations and proposed regulations promulgated by Federal agencies to be accompanied by such statements as well. Title IV: Applicability of Freedom of Information Act - Applies the Freedom of Information Act to the Congress as such Act applies to executive agencies.
Bill· HRH.R. 252 (104th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 23 March 2026
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: House of Representatives Title II: Senate Title III: Joint House and Senate Matters Subtitle A: Congressional Budget Process Subtitle B: Staffing and Instrumentalities Subtitle C: Miscellaneous Subtitle D: Budget Control Legislative Reorganization Act of 1995 - Title I: House of Representatives - Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that there should be established a schedule of legislative activities of the House that: (1) provides for four full days of legislative business per week while the House is in session; (2) sets aside specific periods exclusively for floor proceedings and committee meetings and hearings; (3) rationalizes the scheduling of committee and subcommittee meetings and hearings to minimize conflicts; and (4) encourages and requires that the House Information Systems provide training on the use of computerized scheduling to minimize such conflicts. (Sec. 101) Amends rule XI of the Rules of the House of Representatives to require that the public be notified before a committee or subcommittee holds a meeting or hearing. (Sec. 102) Amends rule XXI to require a report from any committee accompanying any bill authorizing or providing obligational authority or tax expenditures or the joint explanatory statement accompanying a conference report on such bill to contain a concise statement: (1) describing the effect of any provision of the bill or conference report which changes the application of existing law; and (2) to list in a separate and identifiable part of the report or joint explanatory statement each item in such bill, report, conference report, or joint explanatory statement that earmarks the required use of funds below the appropriation account level or provides a specific tax expenditure. (Sec. 103) Requires: (1) the House Committee on Appropriations to immediately notify the appropriate standing committee whenever the Committee orders reported any general appropriations bill that makes appropriations for any unauthorized expenditure, or that reappropriates unexpended balances of appropriations, within the jurisdiction of any other standing committee; (2) a House committee to notify such Committee whenever it reports any bill, resolution, or amendment thereto, carrying an appropriation from a committee not having jurisdiction to report appropriations; (3) such Committee to deliver copies of appropriation bills as passed the House with numbered Senate amendments to the appropriate authorizing committees at least 24 hours before requesting appointment of conferees thereon unless the Speaker of the House determines otherwise; and (4) the Committee to deliver copies of the conference report and accompanying joint explanatory statement to the appropriate authorizing committees at least 24 hours before floor action thereon unless the Speaker determines otherwise. (Sec. 104) Directs the Speaker and the minority leader of the House to appoint 20 independent factfinders at the beginning of each Congress to carry out investigations on behalf of the House as required by the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct. Disqualifies any lobbyist required under the Federal Regulation of Lobbying Act to register with the Clerk of the House or the Secretary of the Senate. Requires such Committee to adopt specified rules relating to the use of independent factfinders. (Sec. 106) Expresses the sense of the House that the Committee on House Oversight should: (1) review the training and orientation programs currently available for the personal, committee, and administrative staff of the House; (2) evaluate their overall effectiveness and utility; and (3) develop, administer, and coordinate a comprehensive training program for House staff employees. (Sec. 107) Expresses the sense of the House that: (1) the three-day layover requirement for committee reports on legislation and on conference reports may not be waived unless the legislation and any accompanying report have been available to each Member for at least 24 hours before its consideration on the House floor; (2) an amendment to a bill to be considered under suspension of the rules should be printed and available to each Member for at least 24 hours before its consideration; (3) committees and conference committees should endeavor to file reports on word processing computer disks to facilitate availability to Members; (4) an internal cable system, a cable channel, or party specific channels should be developed to provide Members with summaries of the pending legislation and should be available in their offices, committee hearing rooms, and the cloakrooms; and (5) the full text of bills, amendments, reports, Congressional Budget Office (CBO) cost estimates, General Accounting Office (GAO) reports, Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) reports, Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports and Issue Briefs, the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) and the annotated CFR, the Congressional Record, and the Federal Register should be made available to all Members and congressional staff via computer by the beginning of the 105th Congress and such appropriate legislative information should also be made available to the public and the Depository Libraries through a low-cost computer connection. (Sec. 108) Expresses the sense of the House that specified steps should be taken to improve the public's understanding of the Congress and the legislative process. (Sec. 109) Expresses the sense of the House that the Committee on House Oversight and the House Committee on Appropriations should conduct a study of the salary ranges of congressional personal, committee, and administrative staff with a view toward achieving bicameral salary parity for House and Senate staff performing analogous functions. (Sec. 110) Amends rule XXI to make it out of order to consider any provision of a general appropriation bill (except a conference report) that would exceed any applicable authorization level as set forth in any authorization measure as passed by the House. (Sec. 111) Requires the Parliamentarian of the House, at the beginning of the 105th Congress, to recodify the Rules of the House by clarifying conflicting definitions, eliminating anachronisms, and reorganizing the rules into a more coherent and logical structure. Authorizes the Parliamentarian to utilize the services of CRS and the Government Printing Office (GPO) personnel to carry out the recodification. Title II: Senate - (Bill language to be supplied at a later date). Title III: Joint House and Senate Matters - Subtitle A: Congressional Budget Process - Amends the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to revise the Federal and congressional budget processes by establishing a two-year budgeting and appropriations cycle and timetable. Defines the budget biennium as the two consecutive fiscal years beginning on October 1 of any odd-numbered year. Devotes the first session of any Congress to the budget resolution and to appropriations decisions, retaining current deadlines in most cases. Changes certain deadlines to conform to the biennial scheme. Devotes each second session to authorization activity, subject to specified deadlines. (Sec. 303) Conforms provisions governing the President's budget to the biennial framework. (Sec. 305) Amends the Rules of the House of Representatives to conform to the biennial framework. (Sec. 306) Prohibits the House or Senate from considering any legislation that authorizes appropriations for a period of less than two fiscal years, unless the activity for which the funds are to be spent is of less than two years duration. Prohibits the House or Senate from considering any legislation that appropriates an amount for a program, project, or activity not authorized by: (1) existing law in excess of the amount previously appropriated for such program; or (2) law within the two-year period prior to the date of the appropriation. Requires each congressional committee, by January 2 of each odd-numbered year, to report on its oversight activities during the Congress. (Sec. 321) Requires CBO to make quarterly budget reports to the House and Senate Committees on the Budget. (Sec. 322) Amends the Employment Act of 1946 to require the President to include in the annual economic report a gross national product budget analysis. Requires the President to make fiscal policy reports to the Congress after submission of the annual economic report. (Sec. 323) Directs the Director of CBO to report to the Congress and the President on a review of Government user fees. Prohibits the House or Senate from considering any concurrent resolution on the budget until such report has been received. (Sec. 324) Requires budget resolutions to include total revenue losses attributable to certain tax laws and the aggregate amount by which such total will be increased or decreased. Subtitle B: Staffing and Instrumentalities - Provides that GAO, CBO, CRS, GPO, and OTA shall be authorized by the enactment every eighth year beginning for FY 1997 of an Act to authorize appropriations for those offices for the next eight fiscal years. (Sec. 342) Requires the appropriate committees of the House and of the Senate to study and report: (1) recommendations to their leadership providing for better coordination of specified legislative branch services, positions, and entities; and (2) on the feasibility of providing competitive bidding for the right to operate such facilities and to provide legislative branch services such as barber and beauty shops, a gymnasium, health and medical services, restaurants, automobile services, and child care. Subtitle C: Miscellaneous - Directs the Committees on Government Reform and Oversight in the House and on Governmental Affairs in the Senate to conduct, with the assistance of GAO, a comprehensive survey of all statutory reporting requirements, soliciting the views of the congressional committees, and to report legislation on or before December 31, 1996, to eliminate obsolete, nonessential, or duplicative reports. (Sec. 351) Requires the Committees to establish a uniform and appropriate procedure for requiring agency reports to the Congress to expire after five years, subject to their specific reauthorization, and to report legislation by December 31, 1996, to sunset statutory reporting requirements. (Sec. 352) Repeals provisions of Federal law and the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 to abolish the Joint Committee on Printing and the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library. Establishes the Joint Committee on Information Management to: (1) coordinate information management for the Congress; (2) establish standards and applications policies for the Congress and its support agencies for information technologies; (3) ensure dissemination of executive branch information to the public; and (4) carry out all functions of the Joint Committee on Printing and the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library. Provides for the transfer of functions to the Joint Committee, except that those related to the supervision of the Botanic Garden and the Capitol art collection shall be transferred to the House Committee on Oversight and the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration. Subtitle D: Budget Control - Budget Control Act of 1995 - Requires initial direct spending targets for FY 1996 through 1999 to equal total outlays for all direct spending except net interest and deposit insurance. (Sec. 363) Requires the President, as part of the budget submission, to provide an annual review of direct spending and receipts, including: (1) information supporting the adjustment of direct spending targets; (2) information on total outlays for programs covered by such targets, including actual outlays for the prior fiscal year and projected outlays for the current fiscal year and the five succeeding fiscal years; and (3) information on the major categories of Federal receipts, including a comparison between the levels of those receipts and the levels projected as of the date of enactment of this Act. (Sec. 364) Sets forth required actions by the President and the Congress if actual or projected costs exceed targeted levels. (Sec. 366) Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, prior to the submission of the President's budget for FY 1997 through 1999, to adjust direct spending targets: (1) for increases in beneficiaries; (2) for revenue legislation; (3) as provided in reconciliation bills; and (4) to reflect the costs of emergency legislation. (Sec. 369) Prohibits the House of Representatives from considering any general appropriation bill, if the President has submitted a direct spending message, until the Congress has adopted the required concurrent resolution on the budget. (Sec. 370) Requires the President and the Congress to seriously consider other alternatives before proposing reductions in means-tested programs.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 164 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 August 2025
Congressional Reform Resolution of 1989 - Requires each standing committee of the House of Representatives with subject matter jurisdiction to report to the House on legislation to: (1) apply the following laws to Members, officers, and employees of the House: (A) the section of the Federal criminal code that relates to post-employment conflict of interest; and (B) the chapter of Federal Judiciary and Judicial Procedure that relates to an independent counsel; (2) amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to eliminate personal use of excess campaign funds by certain Members of the House and to prohibit acceptance of campaign contributions from multicandidate political committees; and (3) amend the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 with respect to Members, officers, and employees of the House to: (A) require that all financial disclosure reports list the exact dollar amount of all holdings, liabilities, and income required to be disclosed under such Act; (B) limit the qualified blind trust exemption to trusts created before a reporting individual becomes a Member, officer, or employee of the House; (C) require the disclosure of the terms and exact rate of interest paid on liabilities reportable under such Act; and (D) limit the exemption from the reporting requirements for life insurance policies to those policies with cash values not in excess of $20,000. Requires the Committee on Rules, by October 1, 1990, to report an amendment to: (1) rule XLVII of the Rules of the House of Representatives to prohibit the acceptance of honoraria and to require that outside income include all copyright royalties derived from publications, except publications completed before an individual becomes a Member, officer, or employee of the House; and (2) clause 4(e) of rule X of the Rules of the House of Representatives to allow investigations to be undertaken by the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct upon receipt of a written complaint from any individual and to require that such committee conduct random audits of financial disclosure statements filed by Members of the House.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 61 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 August 2025
Bicentennial House Restoration Amendments of 1989 - Amends rule I of the Rules of the House of Representatives to direct the Speaker of the House, immediately after the reading of a veto message and without intervening motion or business, to state the question on reconsideration of the vetoed measure. Directs the Speaker to provide for the visual coverage of House proceedings on a uniform basis throughout each day's session. Requires the Speaker to announce a legislative program at the beginning of each congressional session which includes: (1) target dates for the consideration of specified major budgetary, authorization, and appropriation bills; (2) an indication of those weeks during which the House will be in session; (3) those weeks set aside for district work periods; and (4) the target date for the adjournment of that session. Amends rule X to require each standing committee, not later than March 1 in the first session of a Congress, to adopt its oversight plans in a meeting open to the public. Authorizes the Speaker of the House to appoint special ad hoc oversight committees to review specific matters within the jurisdiction of two or more committees. Amends rule XI to require each committee to include in its biennial report to the House a separate section summarizing its legislative and oversight activities during that Congress. Amends rule X to direct the Speaker of the House to initially refer each bill, resolution, or other matter to one committee of principal jurisdiction. Eliminates the Speaker's authority to refer any such matter initially to two or more committees for concurrent consideration. Requires standing committees to be elected by the House within seven legislative days (currently, seven calendar days) after the commencement of a Congress. Requires standing committees to hold organizational meetings not later than three legislative days after election. Requires the membership of each committee (except the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct), select committee, and conference committee (and each subcommittee, task force, or subunit thereof) to reflect the ratio of majority to minority Members. Provides that such ratio be reflected for standing committees at the beginning of each Congress, and for select and conference committees at the time of appointment. Prohibits any standing committee from establishing more than six subcommittees, and any Member serving at any one time on more than four subcommittees. Defines "subcommittee" as any subunit of a standing committee established for a period of more than six months. Amends rule XI to prohibit the vote by any member of any committee or subcommittee from being cast by proxy. Requires open committee meetings unless disclosure of matters to be considered would endanger national security, tend to defame, degrade or incriminate any person or otherwise violate any law or rule of the House, or involve committee personnel. Provides that a majority of members of each committee or subcommittee shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of any business. Requires committee rollcall votes on a motion to report any bill or resolution of a public character to include the names of Members voting for or against such measure. Requires each nonrecord vote to include the names of those Members actually present at the time the bill or resolution is ordered reported. Prohibits Rules Committee reports from being considered on the subsequent calendar day of the same legislative day. Prohibits the Rules Committee from reporting any order of business resolution which prohibits a motion to recommit, including instructions in the form of an amendment, unless it is a Senate measure for which a House-passed measure has been substituted. Prohibits the consideration of any resolution reported from the Committee on Rules providing for the consideration of any bill or joint resolution which limits the right of Members to offer germane amendments unless the chairman of the Committee has announced in advance that less than an open amendment process might be recommended by the Committee. Prohibits the consideration of any order of business resolution reported from the Committee on Rules which provides that the House shall be considered to have automatically adopted a motion, amendment, or resolution, or to have passed a bill, joint resolution, or conference report, unless the consideration of such order of business resolution is agreed to by not less than two-thirds of the Members voting, and the yeas and nays shall be considered as ordered when the Speaker puts the question on consideration. Prohibits the consideration of any budget waiver resolution reported by the Committee on Rules unless an explanatory statement accompanies it. Prohibits the House from considering any primary expense resolution until the Committee on House Administration has reported and the House has adopted a resolution establishing the committee staff personnel ceiling for the year. Requires such committee to specify in any primary or supplemental expense resolution the number of staff positions authorized therein. Authorizes the House to consider any supplemental expense resolution in excess of such ceiling by a vote of two-thirds of the Members present. Prohibits the overall staff ceiling of the 101st Congress from exceeding 90 percent of the total committee staff personnel employed at the end of the 100th Congress. Amends rule XIV to establish a Commemorative Calendar comprised of unreported bills and resolutions respecting commemorative holidays and celebrations. Provides for the call of the Commemorative Calendar on the first and third Tuesdays of each month. Amends rule XV to require an automatic rollcall vote on any bill or joint resolution making appropriations, providing revenue, or adjusting the rate of pay of Members, or on final adoption of any concurrent resolution on the budget which provides an increase in the statutory debt limit. Amends rule XXI to establish procedures for the consideration of any bill or joint resolution making continuing appropriations for a period of 30 days or less. Establishes limitations for the consideration of reconciliation bills. Requires bills or resolutions which authorize the enactment of new budget authority to be reported on or before the May 15 preceding the fiscal year to which such authority applies. Amends rule XXIV to include the Pledge of Allegiance in the daily order of business. Amends rule XXVII to establish new procedures for the consideration of motions to suspend the rules. Prohibits such motion if the measure or matter would enact new budget or spending authority in excess of a specified amount. Requires the printing in the Congressional Record, and weekly update thereafter, of a motion to discharge a committee from consideration of a bill or resolution when 100 Members have signed such motion. Amends rule XXXVIII to grant a House conferee three calendar days in which to file supplemental, minority, or additional views. Establishes procedures for the consideration of legislation granting the President special rescission authority with respect to any budget authority for which an authorization has not been enacted. Provides for application of certain labor laws to the House. Directs the Committee on Rules to report to the House by December 31, 1989, on realigning the jurisdictions of House committees.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 247 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 August 2025
Larkin I. Smith Narcotic Committee Reorganization Resolution - Amends rule X of the Rules of the House of Representatives to establish the Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control.
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 304 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 August 2025
Congressional Recycled Paper Act - Requires the Clerk of the House of Representatives and the Secretary of the Senate to procure only recycled paper for the operations of the House and the Senate.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 260 (101st)passed
United States · United States Congress · 26 August 2025
Provides for taking from the Speaker's table H.R. 24 (child nutrition programs) and agreeing to the Senate amendment thereto with an amendment.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 106 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 August 2025
Committee Process Reforms of 1989 - Amends rule X of the Rules of the House of Representatives to require each standing committee, not later than March 1 in the first session of a Congress, to adopt its oversight plans in a meeting open to the public. Requires the committees to submit such plans to the Committee on House Administration, which shall, not later than March 15 in the first session of a Congress, report such plans to the House with recommendations. Authorizes the Speaker of the House to appoint special ad hoc oversight committees to review specific matters within the jurisdiction of two or more committees. Amends rule XI to require each committee to include in its biennial report to the House a separate section summarizing its legislative and oversight activities during that Congress. Directs the Speaker of the House initially to refer each bill, resolution, or other matter to one committee of principal jurisdiction. Eliminates the Speaker's authority to refer any such matter initially to two or more committees for concurrent consideration, however the Speaker continues to have authority to make sequential referrals to multiple committees. Requires standing committees to be elected by the House within seven legislative days (currently, seven calendar days) after the commencement of a Congress. Requires standing committees to hold organizational meetings not later than three legislative days after election. Requires the membership of each committee (except the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct), select committee, and conference committee (and each subcommittee, task force, or subunit thereof) to reflect the ratio of majority to minority Members. Provides that such ratio be reflected for standing committees at the beginning of each Congress, and for select and conference committees at the time of appointment. Prohibits any standing committee from establishing more than six subcommittees, and any Member serving at any one time on more than four subcommittees. Defines subcommittee as any subunit of a standing committee established for a period of more than six months. Prohibits the vote by any member of any committee or subcommittee from being cast by proxy. Requires open meetings unless disclosure of matters to be considered would endanger national security, tend to defame, degrade, or incriminate any person, or otherwise violate any law or rule of the House, or involve committee personnel. Provides that a majority of members of each committee or subcommittee shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of any business. Requires committee rollcall votes on a motion to report any bill or resolution of a public character to include the names of members voting for and against. Requires each nonrecord vote to include the names of those Members actually present at the time the bill or resolution is ordered reported. Requires that a draft copy of each report of a measure or recommendation be made available to the Members of the appropriate committee at least one legislative day prior to the date such measure is scheduled to be reported. Makes an exception for the Committee on Rules in specified cases. Requires prior committee or subcommittee approval before the public dissemination of any print, document, or other material intended for such public dissemination, other than reports on measures or recommendations. Requires the printing of a specified disclaimer in boldface type on the cover of such materials if committee members are not afforded the opportunity to include views. Lists the types of materials for which such requirements do not apply. Provides for the consideration of any order of business resolution from the Committee on Rules which provides for the consideration of unreported bills. Prohibits the House from considering any primary expense resolution until the Committee on House Administration has reported and the House has adopted a resolution establishing the committee staff personnel ceiling for the year. Requires such committee to specify in any primary or supplemental expense resolution the number of staff positions authorized therein. Authorizes the House to consider any supplemental expense resolution in excess of such ceiling by a vote of two-thirds of the Members present. Prohibits the overall staff ceiling of the 101st Congress from exceeding 90 percent of the total committee staff personnel employed at the end of the 100th Congress.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 418 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 August 2025
House of Representatives Clean Indoor Air Act - Prohibits an individual from possessing a lit tobacco product in any public area within a House office building unless it is in an area designated by the House Office Building Commission. Requires the Clerk of the House of Representatives to study and report to the Committee on House Administration on the feasibility of offering a smoke cessation assistance program for Representatives, officers, and employees of the House.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 172 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 August 2025
Truth in Legislating Resolution - Amends rule X of the Rules of the House of Representatives to require each report or joint explanatory statement accompanying each bill or joint resolution to contain: (1) an identification of each provision which benefits only ten or fewer beneficiaries; (2) the name of each beneficiary; (3) the name of the Member who sponsored such provision and an identification of each such provision requested by a Federal agency or Federal officer; and (4) an estimate by the Congressional Budget Office or the Joint Committee on Taxation of the costs or loss in revenues resulting from such provision.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 121 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 August 2025
Targeted Relief Disclosure Resolution of 1989 - Amends rule X of the Rules of the House of Representatives to require each report accompanying each bill or joint resolution of a public character reported by the Committee on Ways and Means to identify: (1) each provision which is intended to provide special benefits with respect to five or fewer taxpayers, transactions, events, items of property, projects, or issuances of bonds; (2) each beneficiary of such provision; (3) the Member of Congress who sponsored the inclusion of each such beneficiary; and (4) an estimate by the Joint Committee on Taxation of the loss in revenues resulting from such provision with respect to each such beneficiary for the fiscal year for which such loss in revenues first occurs and each of the five fiscal years thereafter.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 116 (101st)open
United States · United States Congress · 26 August 2025
Congressional Salary Act of 1989 - Disapproves the recommendations of the President relating to pay rates of Members of Congress. Amends the Federal Salary Act of 1967 to make the President's recommendation for congressional salaries of an advisory nature only. Amends the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 to declare the annual rate of pay for Members of Congress to be the rate payable for such positions on the date of enactment of this Act. Requires a recorded vote in the House and Senate on legislation that provides for an increase in congressional pay.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 56 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 August 2025
Sunshine Resolution of 1989 - Requires each standing committee of the House of Representatives with subject matter jurisdiction to report to the House on legislation to amend the following laws to make them applicable to the House: (1) the National Labor Relations Act; (2) the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938; (3) the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970; (4) the Equal Pay Act of 1963; (5) the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967; (6) the Freedom of Information Act; (7) the Privacy Act of 1974; (8) title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, relating to equal employment opportunity; (9) the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as it relates to employment of individuals with handicaps; (10) the section of the Federal criminal code that relates to post-employment conflict of interest; and (11) the chapter of Federal Judiciary and Judicial Procedure that relates to an independent counsel. Sets forth House procedure when such legislation is reported. Amends rule X of the Rules of the House of Representatives to require the ratio of the number of members of each committee (and of each subcommittee, task force, or subunit) to reflect the ratio of majority to minority party Members of the House at the beginning of each Congress. Requires the ratio of each select committee (and of each subcommittee, task force, or subunit) and of each conference committee to reflect the ratio of majority to minority party members at the time of its appointment. Amends rule XI to prohibit any committee from voting by proxy. Amends rule XV to require a roll call vote on any bill, joint resolution, or conference report making appropriations or providing revenue. Amends rule XXI to prohibit the consideration of any bill or resolution making appropriations under the jurisdiction of more than one subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations if it applies to periods after November 30 of a fiscal year. Authorizes the waiver or suspension of such provision by a 60 percent majority vote of the House. Prohibits an appropriation from being reported in any joint resolution continuing appropriations, or from being an amendment to such resolution, for any expenditure not previously authorized by law, except to continue appropriations for public works and objects which are already in progress. Prohibits any provision changing existing law from being reported in any joint resolution continuing appropriations except germane provisions which retrench expenditures by the reduction of amounts of money covered by the bill. Prohibits any amendment to a joint resolution continuing appropriations if it changes existing law. Declares that no amendment shall be in order during consideration of a joint resolution continuing appropriations proposing a limitation not specifically contained or authorized in existing law for the period of the limitation. Sets forth House floor procedure after a joint resolution continuing appropriations has been read for amendment. Makes it out of order in the House to consider any joint resolution continuing appropriations, or any amendment thereto, which covers a period of more than 90 calendar days. Prohibits any item of appropriation set forth in any joint resolution continuing appropriations from exceeding the lesser of the amount set forth for such item in the House-passed or Senate-passed general appropriation bill for the fiscal year. Declares that the provisions of this Act concerning the use of continuing resolutions may only be waived by a vote of two-thirds of the Members present and voting, a quorum being present. Amends rule XXVII to direct the Clerk of the House to have printed in the Congressional Record the name of each Member who has signed, or withdrawn a signature to, a motion to discharge a committee from the consideration of a public bill or resolution, when 100 Members have signed the motion. Amends rule XXVIII to provide for the inclusion of dissenting views in conference reports. Establishes rule LI to require the Speaker of the House to cause notice of the legislative schedule for the floor of the House for each legislative day to be printed in the Congressional Record at least two legislative days in advance. Establishes rule LII to require that the Congressional Record for the House contain an accurate and verbatim account of remarks actually delivered on the floor together with permitted tables, statistics, and other supporting data. Requires extensions and revisions of remarks to be limited to the correction of grammatical and typographical errors. Requires the insertion of remarks not actually delivered on the floor to be so designated.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 26 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 August 2025
House Commission on Congressional Reform Act - Establishes the House Commission on Congressional Reform to develop comprehensive and impartial recommendations for the House of Representatives that would improve: (1) institutional integrity; (2) accountability to the public; (3) efficiency; (4) effectiveness; and (5) any other aspects that would serve to increase public confidence in the House. Terminates the Commission within 90 days after submission of its report to the Speaker and Minority Leader of the House.
Bill· SS. 2663 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 August 2025
Omnibus Congressional and Presidential Coverage and Accountability Act - Title I: Senate Spending Reduction and Control - Prohibits the amounts appropriated for the Senate: (1) for FY 1993 from exceeding 87 percent of the Senate's budget authority for FY 1992; and (2) for FY 1994 from exceeding 75 percent of such budget authority for FY 1992. Prohibits an annual increase in the amounts appropriated for the Senate for any fiscal year after FY 1994 that exceeds the cost of living adjustment for such fiscal year. Title II: Congressional and Presidential Accountability - Applies to the Congress: (1) specified Federal employment laws, including the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, the National Labor Relations Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, the Equal Pay Act of 1963, the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, and (if enacted) the Indoor Air Quality Act of 1991; (2) the rights and protections provided pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 with respect to conduct regarding matters other than employment; (3) the Privacy Act of 1974; and (4) Title VI of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978. Applies the same Federal employment laws to the employment of presidential appointees. Title III: Wage Garnishment Equalization - Subjects the pay of elected U.S. officers, Federal employees, presidential appointees, and congressional officials or employees to garnishment in the manner applicable to the pay of non-Federal employees. Title IV: Income Tax Disclosure - Amends the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 to require the President, the Vice President, Members of Congress, and candidates for such offices to include a copy of his or her most recent Federal income tax return with each report required to be filed under such Act. Title V: Congressional Pay Accountability - Requires legislative salary adjustments for Members of Congress to take effect on the first day of the first applicable pay period beginning on or after the election of the House of Representatives following the enactment of the law making such adjustment.
Bill· SS. 2174 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 August 2025
Fair Market Standards Act - Prohibits a Member or employee of the Congress from receiving from any office, officer, employee, or other entity in the Congress or in a U.S. department or agency any service or other benefit, at Government expense, that is not equally available to all other persons, with specified exceptions. Requires the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate and the Sergeant at Arms of the House of Representatives to survey and report to specified congressional committees on all the services and benefits available to Members and employees that are not equally available to all other persons, and the manner in which each service or benefit contributes to the performance of their duties. Requires each Committee to introduce a resolution that describes: (1) each service and benefit that may properly be made available to Members and employees for specified reasons; and (2) each service and benefit that may not properly be made available to them but may be made available in or near the Senate or House buildings, at the expense of Members and employees, and provided by employees of the Government or by private contractors. Directs the appropriate officers of the Senate and House to make arrangements for the necessary services and other benefits at fair market value. Mandates that all payments received from Members and employees of the Congress for unnecessary services and benefits provided by Government employees, all rent, or other payments received from private contractors that provide such services and benefits be deposited into the deficit reduction account of the Treasury.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 421 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 August 2025
Bring Democracy to Congress Resolution of 1992 - Amends rule X of the Rules of the House of Representatives to prohibit a member from serving on any particular committee for more than eight years or as committee chairman for more than four years. Disregards: (1) service performed as a member of such committee for less than a full session in any Congress; and (2) previous service on any committee before the beginning of the 103d Congress. Requires the membership of each committee (except the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct), subcommittee, task force, or other subunit, to reflect the ratio of majority to minority party Members of the House at the beginning of the Congress. Exempts the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico and the Delegates to the House from the count in determining such ratio. Requires the membership of each select committee, subcommittee, task force, subunit, or conference committee to reflect the ratio of the majority to minority party Members of the House at the time of appointment. Amends rule XI of the Rules of the House of Representatives to make it out of order to consider any resolution providing for the consideration of a measure otherwise subject to amendment under House rules if such resolution limits the right of Members to offer germane amendments to such measure, unless the chairman of the Rules Committee has previously announced that less than an open amendment process might be recommended by the Committee for the consideration of such measure and the resolution is approved by at least two-thirds of voting members. Amends rule XI of the Rules of the House of Representatives to make it out of order to consider any order of business resolution which provides that, upon adoption, the House shall be considered to have automatically adopted a motion, amendment, or resolution, or to have passed a bill, joint resolution, or conference report, unless consideration of such resolution is agreed to by at least two-thirds of the members voting. Amends rule XV of the Rules of the House of Representatives to provide for an automatic roll call vote when the Speaker puts the question upon final passage of: (1) any bill, joint resolution, or conference report making general appropriations, providing revenue, or adjusting the statutory congressional pay rate; or (2) any concurrent resolution on the budget or conference report thereon that provides an increase in the statutory debt limit. Amends rule XXVII of the Rules of the House of Representatives to require the signature of one-third of the membership (currently, a majority) before a discharge petition may be entered on the Journal. Declares that it is the policy of the House of Representatives that the following Federal laws should be amended to apply to the House in the same or similar manner as they apply to the Executive branch: (1) the National Labor Relations Act; (2) the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970; (3) the Equal Pay Act of 1963; (4) the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967; (5) the Freedom of Information Act; (6) the Privacy Act of 1974; (7) Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1974; and (8) provisions of the Federal judicial code relating to an independent counsel. Directs the standing committees of the House with subject jurisdiction over such Federal laws to report legislation to the House to implement such policy. Provides for consideration of such legislation. Amends rule XLVI of the Rules of the House of Representatives to repeal mandated provisions allowing a Member to mail franked mass mailings.
Bill· HRH.R. 811 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 August 2025
Congressional Pay Reduction Act of 1991 - Reduces the annual salary of Members of the House of Representatives to the specified levels that would apply had the Congress received the same cost-of-living adjustment as Social Security recipients since 1980. States that nothing in this Act shall constitute a repeal of any specified provisions of the Ethics Reform Act of 1989 with respect to honoraria and other related matters.
Bill· HRH.R. 2428 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 August 2025
Overseas United States Citizens' Representation in the Congress Act of 1991 - Provides for representation in the House of Representatives of citizens residing outside the United States by a nonvoting delegate. Requires that such delegate be elected by absentee ballot by citizens who have the right to vote in Federal elections under the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Rights Act. Sets forth eligibility requirements for such office. Requires a commission appointed by the President to determine the procedures and regulations for election to such office.
Bill· HRH.R. 5574 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 August 2025
Library of Congress Fund Act of 1992 - Expresses the intent of the Congress that core Library of Congress services shall continue to be provided at no cost. Title I: Library Products and Services - Authorizes the Librarian of Congress to furnish national library products and services to institutions or individuals for a price that covers distribution costs. Directs the Librarian to publish for comments in the Federal Register new Library of Congress Revolving Fund service activities proposed after enactment of this Act. Requires that any regulation establishing a new activity within specialized library products or services be published in the Federal Register with an explanation of the Librarian's decision. Defines: (1) "core library products and services" as domestic interlibrary loan and information products and services customarily provided by libraries to users at no charge; (2) "national library products and services" as information products and services that are used by libraries and library organizations in maintaining and improving library services throughout the nation; and (3) "specialized library products and services" as specified customized information products and services that exceed core services, that are not national library products and services, and that are designed for individuals or discrete groups of persons or entities. Title II: Library of Congress Revolving Fund for Specialized Products and Services - Establishes the Library of Congress Revolving Fund in the Treasury to be available to the Librarian, without fiscal year limitation, to carry out Fund service activities. Defines "Fund service activities" as specialized library information products and services and other activities assigned by the Librarian by regulation. Requires the Fund to be credited with all amounts received for specialized library products and services and all appropriations for, and other assets associated with, Fund service activities. Authorizes the Librarian to furnish specialized library products and services to institutions and individuals for purchase at a price covering production and distribution costs. Requires the Librarian to set fees to recover the costs of such products and services provided by each Fund service unit. Requires the Librarian to report activities and financial transactions of the Fund in the Annual Report of the Librarian of Congress. Authorizes the General Accounting Office to audit the Fund's financial activities. Title III: General Standards and Limitations - Requires the Librarian to respect and preserve the security classification of any scientific or technical material in the possession or control of the Library of Congress. Requires the President to certify the classified status of items received as being essential in the interest of national defense. Declares that this Act shall not apply to the Copyright Office or modify Federal copyright law. Prohibits: (1) the use of Congressional Research Service (CRS) resources to generate fee-based research and information services; or (2) the marketing or publication of CRS products without prior approval of either the Committee on House Administration or the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration. Provides that nothing in this Act shall be construed to: (1) permit the Library to impose redistribution fees on domestic end users of national library products and services; (2) revise the Federal depository library program or the Library's distribution of publications to depository libraries; or (3) require fees or charges for services and products provided under reciprocal arrangements for the exchange of information. Requires the Library to follow rulemaking notification procedures of the Administrative Procedure Act when proposing new Fund service activities.
Bill· HRH.R. 4284 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 August 2025
Congressional Coverage Act of 1992 - Applies provisions of specified Federal employment and civil rights laws to the Congress as well as to the public.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 80 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 August 2025
Larkin I. Smith Narcotic Committee Reorganization Resolution - Amends rule X of the Rules of the House of Representatives to establish the Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control.
Bill· HRH.R. 4560 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 August 2025
Overseas United States Citizens' Representation in the Congress Act of 1991 - Provides for representation in the House of Representatives of citizens residing outside the United States by a nonvoting delegate. Requires that such delegate be elected by absentee ballot by citizens who have the right to vote in Federal elections under the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Rights Act. Sets forth eligibility requirements for such office. Requires a commission appointed by the President to determine the procedures and regulations for election to such office.
Bill· HRH.R. 4297 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 August 2025
Citizen Representative Act Go Home Provision - Amends the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 to prohibit compensation of a Member of Congress for service after September 30 of a year and before January 3 of the succeeding year unless such service follows the sine die adjournment of the last regular session of the Congress which began before the start of that period.
Bill· HRH.R. 4847 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 August 2025
Accountability in Government Act of 1992 - Title I: Fair Labor Standards in Congress - Fair Labor Standards in Congress Act of 1992 - Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to: (1) include congressional and White House Government employees within the scope of the provisions of such Act; and (2) grant the Comptroller General of the United States authority to enforce provisions of such Act relating to the Congress. Title II: Congressional Employees' Civil Rights - Congressional Employees Civil Rights Act of 1992 - Amends the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to provide that all employees or applicants for employment in the Congress and all employees in the White House Office or the Office of the Vice President shall be afforded the same rights to be free from, and the same remedies against, employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, handicap, or disability as those enjoyed by other employees or applicants under such Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and specified other provisions, with exceptions. Title III: Ethics in Congress - Ethics in Congress Act of 1992 - Amends the Federal judicial code to make specified officials, including Senators and Representatives, the Comptroller General, chairmen and treasurers of incumbents' reelection campaign committees, and other Senate or House officers, subject to independent counsel provisions. Amends the Federal criminal code to make congressional employees subject to Federal conflict of interest provisions. Makes: (1) exceptions where the congressional officer or employee first makes full disclosure of a personal financial interest to the Director of the Office of Government Ethics, subject to specified requirements; and (2) the "agency granting the exemption" such Office with respect to congressional officers and employees. Title IV: Political Activities of Congressional Employees - Political Activities of Congressional Employees Act of 1992 - Extends the ban on political activities by Government employees to congressional employees, with exceptions. Specifies that, with respect to congressional employees, certain authorities granted to the Merit Systems Protection Board shall be exercised by the General Accounting Office (GAO) Personnel Appeals Board (Board), and those granted to the Special Counsel shall be exercised by the General Counsel of such Board. Repeals a provision exempting GAO personnel from prohibitions relating to political activities. Title V: Openness in Congress - Openness in Congress Act of 1992 - Includes the Congress (other than the personal offices of any Senator or any Member of or Delegate or Resident Commissioner to, the House, or the leadership offices of either House), and any agency or instrumentality of the legislative branch (including GAO) within the term "agency" for purposes of coverage under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and the Privacy Act, with exceptions relating to material statutorily exempt from disclosure. Requires the Speaker of the House and the President pro tempore of the Senate to report to the President periodically regarding access to congressional information. Specifies that authorities granted to the Special Council to enforce FOIA and Privacy Act-related provisions shall be exercised by the General Counsel of the Board. Title VI: General Provision - Specifies that wherever in this Act the Congress, a House of Congress, or a congressional office or instrumentality is authorized or required to perform rulemaking functions, such functions (unless otherwise specified) shall be exercised in each House as determined by that House, and in offices and instrumentalities not within a House as determined by the Congress.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 108 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 August 2025
Targeted Tax Relief Disclosure Resolution of 1991 - Amends rule X of the Rules of the House of Representatives to require that each public bill or joint resolution reported by the Committee on Ways and Means identify: (1) each provision (if any) of the bill or joint resolution which is intended to provide special benefits with respect to five or fewer taxpayers, transactions, events, items of property, projects, or issuances of bonds; (2) each beneficiary (known by the Committee) of such provision; (3) the Member or Members of the Congress who sponsored the inclusion of each such beneficiary in such provision; and (4) an estimate by the Joint Committee on Taxation of the loss in revenues resulting from such provision with respect to each such beneficiary for the fiscal year for which such loss in revenues first occurs and each of the five fiscal years thereafter.
Bill· HRH.R. 4224 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 August 2025
Comprehensive Congressional Reform Act of 1992 - Prohibits: (1) the official mail allowance of the House of Representatives for FY 1993 from exceeding 50 percent of such amount for FY 1992, plus any amount necessary as a result of increased postage rates; and (2) the operational expenses of the House of FY 1993 from exceeding 90 percent of that for FY 1992. Delays the effective date of any pay increase for a Member of the House until the beginning of the Congress after the one in which the law authorizing the increase is enacted. Requires the committees of the House having jurisdiction over specified labor, health, and safety laws to report measures to the House that subject it to the coverage of such laws. Provides that, to the extent that the House is already subject to such laws, the committees shall review their scope, enforcement procedures, and remedies, to ensure that these are as similar as constitutionally permissible to those applied to the private and noncongressional public sector. Amends rule X of the Rules of the House of Representatives to limit the length of time a Member may serve on a standing committee to six years. Amends rule XI to prohibit the Committee on Rules from reporting any rule or order which would waive specified requirements with respect to a conference report or a Senate amendment in disagreement unless determined by a minimum two-thirds vote of the Members voting. Expresses the sense of the Congress that any money returned to the Treasury as a result of this Act should be deposited in the general fund to be applied against expenses associated with servicing the national debt.
Bill· SS. 2319 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 August 2025
Economic and Employment Impact Act of 1992 - Directs the Comptroller General to prepare an economic and employment impact statement to accompany each bill, resolution, or conference report before it may be reported or otherwise considered on the floor of either House of Congress. Requires such statement to: (1) state the extent to which enactment of such legislation would result in increased costs to the private sector, individuals, or State and local governments; and (2) include a detailed assessment of the annual impact of such legislation on consumer and business costs, employment, the Gross Domestic Product, and other specified criteria. Provides that such statement may consist of a brief summary assessment in lieu of such detailed assessment if preliminary analysis indicates that the aggregate effect of the legislation as measured by such criteria is less than $10,000,000 or the loss of 1,000 jobs in national employment. Authorizes the Congress to waive the requirements of this paragraph at any time in which a declaration of war is in effect, or in response to a national security emergency at the request of the President. Makes it a point of order in either House of Congress to consider any legislation that does not include such a statement. Allows such point of order to be waived. Requires each regulation and proposed regulation promulgated by an executive department or agency to be accompanied by such a statement prepared by the department or agency. Requires such statement to be published in the Federal Register together with such regulation or proposed regulation. Authorizes the President to waive the requirements of this paragraph at any time in which a declaration of war is in effect, or in response to a national security emergency. Amends rule XXVI of the Standing Rules of the Senate to repeal provisions concerning congressional committee reports accompanying bills and resolutions.
Bill· HRH.R. 5177 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 August 2025
Small Business Cost Estimate Act of 1992 - Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to require the Director of the Congressional Budget Office to prepare for each public measure reported by a congressional committee (except the Committee on Appropriations of each House) and to submit to that committee for inclusion in the committee report: (1) an estimate of the costs in each of the first five fiscal years of carrying out such measure and of small business compliance with such measure, if significant; and (2) a comparison of those estimates with estimates made by such committee or by a Federal agency.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 553 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 August 2025
House of Representatives Reform Resolution of 1992 - Amends rule X of the Rules of the House of Representatives to prohibit any standing committee of the House (except the Committee on the Budget which shall have no subcommittees, the Committee on Rules which shall have two subcommittees, and the Committee on Appropriations which may have the same number of subcommittees it had in the 101st Congress) from establishing more than four subcommittees. Requires the chairman of each committee to appoint members of that committee to serve as chairmen of its subcommittees. Prohibits the number of staff positions for each House committee, the number of clerk hire positions for each Member of the House, and the amount of funding for such positions in the 105th Congress and thereafter from exceeding 50 percent of the number and amount for such committee in the 102d Congress. Requires the Speaker to refer legislation initially to one committee as the committee of principal jurisdiction. (Currently, such legislation may initially be referred simultaneously to two or more committees for concurrent or sequential consideration.) Prohibits a Member from serving on a committee as a member for more than eight years or as its chairman for more than four years. Amends rule XIV to prohibit the Speaker from recognizing any Member for the purpose of making a special-order or one-minute speech. Amends rule XXXIV to prohibit extensions of remarks by Members from being inserted in the Congressional Record unless they pertain to legislative matters before the House, its committees, or subcommittees. Declares that it is the policy of the House of Representatives that the following Federal laws should be amended to apply to the House in the same or similar manner as they apply to the executive branch: (1) the National Labor Relations Act; (2) the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970; (3) the Equal Pay Act of 1963; (4) the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967; (5) the Freedom of Information Act; (6) the Privacy Act of 1974; and (7) Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Directs the standing committees of the House with subject jurisdiction over such Federal laws to report legislation to the House to implement such policy.
Bill· HRH.R. 4564 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 August 2025
Fair Market Standards Act - Prohibits a Member or employee of Congress from receiving from any office, officer, employee, or other entity in the Congress or in a U.S. department or agency any service or other benefit, at Government expense, that is not equally available to all other persons, with specified exceptions. Requires the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate and the Sergeant at Arms of the House of Representatives to survey and report to specified congressional committees on all the services and benefits available to Members and employees that are not equally available to all other persons, and the manner in which each service or benefit contributes to the performance of their duties. Requires each Committee to introduce a resolution that describes: (1) each service and benefit that may properly be made available to Members and employees for specified reasons; (2) each service and benefit that should not properly be made available to them; and (3) each service and benefit that may not properly be made available to them but may be made available in or near the Senate or House buildings, at the expense of Members and employees, and provided by employees of the Government or by private contractors. Directs the appropriate officers of the Senate and House to make arrangements for the necessary services and other benefits at fair market value. Mandates that all payments received from Members and employees of Congress for unnecessary services and benefits provided by Government employees, all rent, or other payments received from private contractors that provide such services and benefits be deposited into the deficit reduction account of the Treasury.
Bill· HRH.R. 242 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 August 2025
Congressional Recycling Act of 1991 - Requires the Clerk of the House of Representatives and the Secretary of the Senate to purchase recycled paper and paper products for use to the greatest extent practicable in the operations of the House and the Senate. Directs the Public Printer to assure that the Government Printing Office uses recycled paper in providing services to the House. Directs the Clerk of the House and the Secretary of the Senate to determine the price or range of prices to be considered unreasonable for purposes of this Act.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 565 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 August 2025
Priority Reforms for a New House Resolution of 1992 - Amends rule I of the Rules of the House of Representatives to direct the Speaker of the House to announce a specified legislative program at the beginning of each session of the Congress. Requires the Speaker to ensure that the minority leader is fully consulted in developing the program for the House each week. Amends rule X to require the House standing committees to hold their organizational meetings within four calendar days after their election and to conclude the meetings within seven calendar days after such election. Requires the membership of each committee (except the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct and the Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight of the Committee on House Administration) select committee, and conference committee to reflect the ratio of majority to minority party Members of the House at the beginning of the Congress. Excludes the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico and the Delegates to the House from the count in determining such party ratio of committees. Prohibits any standing committee of the House (except the Committee on Appropriations) from establishing more than six subcommittees. Prevents any Member from serving on more than four House subcommittees at any one time. Requires each standing committee of the House, by March 1 in the first session of a Congress, in a meeting open to the public and with a quorum present, to adopt and submit to the Committee on House Administration its oversight plans for that Congress. Prohibits the consideration of any committee expenses resolution, or any amendment to it, if that committee has not submitted its oversight plans. Directs the Committee on House Administration to report the oversight plan submitted by each committee to the House. Authorizes the Speaker, with the approval of the House, to appoint special ad hoc oversight committees to review specific matters within the jurisdiction of two or more standing committees. Amends rule XI to require each committee to include in its report due by January 2 of each odd-numbered year summaries of legislative and oversight activities of that committee. Amends rule X to require the Speaker to refer legislation initially to one committee as the committee of principal jurisdiction (currently, such legislation may initially be referred simultaneously to two or more committees for concurrent consideration). Amends rule XI to repeal the exceptions allowing voting by proxy by a member of any committee or subcommittee with respect to any measure or matter. Allows committees and subcommittees to close their meetings only where disclosure of matters to be considered would: (1) endanger national security; (2) tend to defame, degrade, or incriminate any person; (3) violate any law or rule of the House; or (4) involve committee personnel matters. Provides that a majority of the members of each committee or subcommittee shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of any business, including the markup of legislation (currently, all committees but the Committees on Appropriations, Budget, and Ways and Means are permitted to fix the number exceeding one-third of the members that constitutes a quorum). Makes it out of order to consider any primary expenses resolution unless the Committee on House Administration has reported, and the House has adopted, a resolution establishing an overall ceiling for House committee statutory and investigative staff personnel for that year. Makes such a resolution privileged. Sets forth requirements governing staff positions authorized and allocated under primary and supplemental expense resolutions. Provides that the overall ceiling for committee staff in a resolution reported by the committee or contained in any amendment for the first and second session of the 103d Congress and the first session of the 104th Congress shall not exceed 90 percent of the total committee staff personnel employed in the previous session of the Congress. Makes it in order to consider amendments to bills making appropriations for the legislative branch placing limitations on the number of staff personnel of House committees not otherwise subject to rule XI. Makes it out of order for the Committee on Rules to report any rule or order that would prevent a motion to recommit that has amendatory instructions (except in the case of a Senate measure for which the language of a House passed measure has been substituted). Abolishes the following select committees and terminates their funding for investigations and studies: (1) the Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Family; (2) the Select Committee on Hunger; (3) the Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control; and (4) the Select Committee on Aging. Makes it out of order, during the first session of the 103d Congress, to consider any resolution reestablishing such committees or any order of business resolution waiving this prohibition except by a two-thirds vote of the House. Amends rule XXI to make it out of order to consider any bill or joint resolution in the House which directly or indirectly authorizes enactment of new budget authority for a fiscal year unless such measure is reported in the House on or before May 15 preceding the beginning of such fiscal year.
Bill· HRH.R. 5215 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 August 2025
Congressional Pay Reform Act of 1992 - Amends the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 to eliminate automatic pay adjustments for Members of Congress. Requires the annual rate of pay for Members to be the rate payable as of the enactment of this Act, until such rate is adjusted under provisions of the Federal Salary Act of 1967.
Bill· HRH.R. 4985 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 August 2025
Congressional Foreign Travel Accountability Act of 1992 - Prohibits Federal funds from being made available for foreign travel expenses by a Senator, Representative, or any officer or employee of either House of Congress unless such expenses are paid out of a specific appropriation for such purposes. Requires all foreign travel regulated by this Act to be accomplished by the most economical means conveniently possible. Provides for reimbursement of the costs of any transportation and lodging provided by the Government from the specific travel appropriation. Requires congressional committees to: (1) establish guidelines for foreign travel by their members and employees to avoid unnecessary trips; and (2) file quarterly reports with respect to such travel which shall be made available for public inspection. Requires such reports to be destroyed six years after being filed unless they are required in an ongoing investigation. Makes it unlawful for any person to obtain or use a report for: (1) any unlawful purposes; (2) any commercial purpose other than by news and communications media for dissemination to the general public; or (3) use in the solicitation of money for any political, charitable, or other purpose. Sets forth penalties for violation of this Act.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 408 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 August 2025
House of Representatives Perquisite Reform Resolution of 1992 - Directs the Speaker of the House to provide for a study by the Comptroller General to determine the nature, extent, and cost of perquisites available to Members of the House. Requires the Comptroller General to report to the House on the results of such study for referral to the appropriate committees for action before the end of the 102d Congress.
Bill· SS. 2366 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 August 2025
Congressional Coverage Act of 1992 - Applies provisions of specified Federal employment and civil rights laws to the Congress as well as to the public.
Bill· SS. 1937 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 August 2025
Congressional Coverage Act of 1991 - Applies provisions of specified Federal employment and civil rights laws to the Congress as well as to the public.
Bill· SS. 255 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 August 2025
Congressional Recycling Act of 1991 - Requires the Clerk of the House of Representatives and the Secretary of the Senate to purchase recycled paper and paper products for use to the greatest extent practicable in the operations of the House and the Senate. Directs the Public Printer to assure that the Government Printing Office uses recycled paper in providing services to the House.
Bill· HRH.R. 700 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 August 2025
Congressional Pay Reform Act of 1991 - Amends the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 to specify that pay adjustments for Members of Congress shall become effective on March 1 following the beginning of the next Congress after the Congress during which such adjustment is approved. Amends the Federal Salary Act to require the President to transmit to the Congress, within a specified time period, recommendations for rates of pay of Members of Congress and legislative and judicial employees. (Currently such recommendations are included in the Federal budget.) Prohibits the House of Representatives and the Senate from considering any bill or joint resolution carrying an appropriation for compensation of Members of Congress for any fiscal year if it carries an appropriation, or a limitation of appropriations, for any other purpose. Requires a recorded vote on such bill or resolution.
Bill· SS. 1649 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 August 2025
Office of Constituent Assistance Act - Establishes in the legislative branch the Office of Constituent Assistance to: (1) assist Members of Congress in responding to the concerns and grievances of their constituents regarding agency actions; (2) receive cases from Members in order to improve constituent service and avoid the appearance of impropriety or conflict of interest; (3) identity issues that appear to pose problems for constituents on a continuing, broadscale basis, and to formulate remedial action, if appropriate; and (4) alert Members, congressional committees, and agency officials to possible patterns of abuse or inefficiency. Sets forth responsibilities, reporting requirements, and administrative provisions for such Office. Authorizes appropriations.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 436 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 August 2025
Comprehensive Congressional Reform Resolution - Title I: Establishment of a Chief Financial Officer for the House of Representatives and the Elimination or Reduction of Patronage Positions - Amends rule II of the Rules of the House of Representatives to eliminate the election of a Doorkeeper or Postmaster in the House. Requires the individual chosen for election as the Sergeant-at-Arms to be a nationally-respected law enforcement professional. Amends rules III and IV to revise the duties of the Clerk of the House and the Sergeant-at-Arms. Amends rules V and VI to: (1) eliminate the positions of Doorkeeper and Postmaster; and (2) create a position of Chief Financial Officer. Sets forth qualifications for the elected Chief Financial Officer. Outlines his or her duties. Prohibits the Chief Financial Officer from disclosing the identity of a complaining employee without the employee's consent unless such disclosure is unavoidable. Makes it a violation of rule LI for an employing authority to intimidate or take any reprisal against, an employee of the House because of a complaint made by the employee. Transfers the duties of the Postmaster of the House to the Chief Financial Officer. Amends rule XIV to eliminate the duties of the Doorkeeper with respect to decorum and debate in the House. Amends rule XI to require each committee, by March 1 of the first session of any Congress, to adopt an oversight plan for that Congress and to submit it to the Committee on House Administration. Prohibits the consideration in the House of a primary expense resolution for a committee unless and until such committee has adopted and submitted the plan. Requires the Committee on House Administration to report such plan to the House. Authorizes the Speaker to appoint ad hoc oversight committees for specific tasks from the membership of committees with shared legislative jurisdictions. Requires each committee to include an oversight section in its final activity report at the end of a Congress. Amends rule X to establish a bipartisan Subcommittee on House Administrative Oversight of the Committee on House Administration. Requires one-half of the subcommittee's members to be from the majority party and named by the chairman of the Committee on House Administration and the other half to be from the minority party and named by the ranking minority party member of such committee. Authorizes the chairman or ranking minority party member of the committee to issue subpoenas. Requires the subcommittee to meet only at the call of its chairman and ranking minority party member. Prohibits the subcommittee from taking testimony under oath unless at least one member of the majority and minority party are present. Requires the membership of the Subcommittee on Legislative Appropriations of the Committee on Appropriations to be divided equally between the majority and minority parties. Divides the staff positions for the subcommittee in the same manner. Directs the Speaker to appoint a task force to: (1) recommend institutional reforms necessary to restore public confidence in the House; and (2) report on its recommendations to the House by the end of the 102d Congress. Requires the written approval of the Speaker and the minority leader of the House before funds may be reprogrammed or transferred between House appropriation accounts. Makes it out of order to consider any measure in the House, in the second session of the 102d Congress, containing an appropriation for any period after March 31, 1993. Title II: Establishment of the Office of the General Counsel - Establishes the Office of the General Counsel (Office) in the House to: (1) be accountable to a specified Leadership Group; and (2) provide legal assistance to Members, officers, and employees of the House on matters directly related to their duties, with specified exceptions. Lists certain actions of the Office that must be approved either by a resolution of the House or the Leadership Group. Requires such Office, in the case of any matter that affects an area of responsibility committed to another office, officer, or employee under this Act, to consult the party involved and coordinate such action with them. Vests management, supervision, and administration of the Office in the General Counsel to be appointed by the Speaker, upon the recommendation of the majority and minority leaders of the House, acting jointly, without regard for political affiliation and solely on the basis of fitness to perform the duties of the position. Requires the General Counsel to serve at the pleasure of the Leadership Group. Authorizes the General Counsel to make appropriate expenditures for the functioning of the Office. Requires the attorneys and professional staff in the Office to maintain regular, written records of the time expended on legal matters, consistent with generally accepted practices in private law firms. Makes such time records reviewable by the Leadership Group. Prohibits public disclosure of them unless by direction of the Leadership Group or resolution of the House. Title III: Establishment of the Office of Congressional Inspector General - Creates the Congressional Office of Inspector General (Office), independent of the executive departments and under the control and direction of the Speaker and minority leader of the House of Representatives. Sets forth the functions of the Office. Makes an Inspector General (Inspector), to be appointed by the Speaker and minority leader, head of the Office for a seven-year term, unless removed by the Speaker and minority leader for cause. Makes the Inspector ineligible for reappointment. Requires the Inspector to appoint: (1) an Assistant Inspector General for Auditing to supervise the auditing of the office procedures and operations of each Member or committee of the House and any other House office whose employees are paid by the Clerk; and (2) an Assistant Inspector General for Investigations to supervise investigations of such office procedures and operations. Sets forth the duties and responsibilities of the Inspector. Requires each Inspector General to report annually to the Speaker and minority leader of the House. Authorizes the Inspector to receive and investigate complaints or information from a House employee concerning the possible existence of a violation of law or the Rules of the House, mismanagement, gross waste of funds, abuse of authority, or a substantial and specific danger to the public health and safety. Prohibits the Inspector, upon receiving the complaint or information, from disclosing the complainant's identity without the employee's consent, unless such disclosure is unavoidable during the course of the investigation. Prohibits any employee who has authority to take, directs others to take, or recommends or approves any personnel action, from taking action against an employee as reprisal for making a complaint or disclosing information to an Inspector, unless the complaint was false and the complainant knew this or willfully disregarded truth or falsity. Title IV: Amendments to the Rules of the House of Representatives - Amends rule I of the Rules of the House of Representatives to require the Speaker to announce a specified legislative program at the beginning of each session of the Congress. Requires the Speaker to ensure that the minority leader is fully consulted in developing the legislative program for the House each week. Amends rule X to require each standing committee of the House, by March 1 in the first session of a Congress, in a meeting open to the public and with a quorum present, to adopt and submit to the Committee on House Administration its oversight plans for that Congress. Prohibits the consideration of any committee expense resolution, or any amendment to it, if that committee has not submitted its oversight plans. Directs the Committee on House Administration to report the oversight plan submitted by each committee to the House. Authorizes the Speaker, with the approval of the House, to appoint special ad hoc oversight committees to review specific matters within the jurisdiction of two or more standing committees. Amends rule XI to require each committee to report, by January 2 of each odd-numbered year, on activities of that committee under this rule and rule X during the Congress ending on January 3 of such year. Amends rule X to require the Speaker to refer legislation initially to one committee as the committee of principal jurisdiction (currently, such legislation may initially be referred simultaneously to two or more committees for concurrent consideration). Requires that the House standing committees be elected by the House within 11 legislative days (currently, seven calendar days) after the commencement of each Congress. Directs the committees to hold their organizational meetings within three legislative days after their election. Requires the membership of each committee (except the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct), subcommittee, task force, or other subunit, to reflect the ratio of majority to minority party Members of the House at the beginning of the Congress. Exempts the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico and the Delegates to the House from the count in determining such party ratio. Requires the membership of each select committee, subcommittee, task force, subunit, or conference committee to reflect the ratio of the majority to minority party Members of the House at the time of its appointment. Prohibits any standing committee of the House (except the Committee on Appropriations) from establishing more than six subcommittees. Prevents any member from serving on more than four House subcommittees at any one time. Amends rule XI to repeal the general permission, subject to certain conditions, for proxy voting by a member of any committee or subcommittee with respect to any measure or matter. Allows committees and subcommittees to close their meetings in circumstances where disclosure of matters to be considered would: (1) endanger national security; (2) tend to defame, degrade, or incriminate any person; (3) violate any law or rule of the House; or (4) involve committee personnel matters. Provides that a majority of the members of each committee or subcommittee shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of any business, including the markup of legislation (currently, all committees but the Committees on Appropriations, Budget, and Ways and Means are permitted to fix the number establishing a quorum). Requires the names of those Members voting for and against any motion to report a public bill or resolution to be included in the committee report of such measure (currently, only the number of votes cast for or against reporting such measure is included). Requires the names of those members of the committees actually present at the time the bill or resolution is ordered reported to be included in the committee report relating to each nonrecord vote on a motion to report such public bill or resolution. Requires that a committee or subcommittee print, document, or other material, except under certain circumstances, prepared for public distribution, shall either: (1) be approved by the committee or subcommittee prior to such public distribution, with opportunity afforded for the inclusion of supplemental, minority, or additional views; or (2) contain a specified disclaimer on its cover. Prohibits any such print, document, or other material not approved by the committee or subcommittee from including the names of its members, other than the name of the chairman releasing such document. Lists material excepted from such requirements. Prohibits a measure reported from the Committee on Rules from being considered on the same calendar day it is presented to the House, nor on the subsequent calendar day of the same legislative day, except in certain circumstances. (Currently it can not be considered on the same day.) Prohibits the Committee on Rules from reporting any rule or order that would prevent a motion to recommit that has amendatory instructions (except in the case of a Senate measure for which the language of a House passed measure has been substituted). Prohibits the consideration of any rule providing for the consideration of a bill or resolution otherwise subject to amendment under House rules if such resolution limits the right of Members to offer germane amendments to such measure, unless the chairman of the Rules Committee has announced, within a specified period of time, that less than an open amendment process might be recommended by the Committee for the consideration of such measure. Makes it out of order to consider any order of business resolution which provides that, upon adoption, the House shall be considered to have automatically adopted a motion, amendment, or resolution, or to have passed a bill, joint resolution, or conference report, unless consideration of such resolution is agreed to by at least two-thirds of the Members voting. Requires any report accompanying a resolution for consideration of a budget waiver measure to include: (1) an explanation and justification for the waiver; (2) an estimated cost of the provisions to which the waiver applies; and (3) a summary or text of any written comments on the waiver received by the committee from the Committee on the Budget. Sets forth procedures for the consideration of such resolution. Prohibits the consideration of a resolution that waives all House rules, except by a two-thirds vote of the Members voting. Makes it out of order to consider any primary expense resolution unless the Committee on House Administration has reported and the House has adopted a resolution establishing an overall ceiling for House committee staff personnel for that year. Makes such a resolution privileged. Establishes guidelines for developing and considering primary and supplemental expense resolutions. Provides that the overall ceiling for committee staff in a resolution reported by the committee or contained in any amendment for the 103d Congress shall not exceed 90 percent of the total committee staff personnel employed at the end of the 102d Congress. Amends rule XIII of the Rules of the House of Representatives to establish a Commemorative Calendar comprised of unreported bills and resolutions respecting commemorative holidays and celebrations that have been: (1) referred to the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service; and (2) requested by the chairman and ranking minority member of such committee to be placed on such calendar. Outlines procedures for the consideration of such measures. Amends rules XV of the Rules of the House of Representatives to provide for an automatic roll call vote when the Speaker puts the question upon final passage of: (1) any bill, joint resolution, or conference report making general appropriations, providing revenue, or adjusting the statutory congressional pay rate; or (2) any budgetary concurrent resolution or conference report that provides an increase in the statutory debt limit. Amends rule XXI of the Rules of the House of Representatives to repeal the declaration that no amendment shall be in order during consideration of a general appropriation bill if it proposes a limitation not specifically contained or authorized in existing law for the period of such limitations. Defines a "general appropriation bill" to include any bill or joint resolution making continuing appropriations in a fiscal year for a period in excess of 30 days. Describes the contents of such bill. Reserves all points of order against any general appropriation bill at the time it is reported. Prohibits the consideration of any bill or joint resolution making appropriations for a period of 30 days or less unless it only provides appropriations in the lesser amount and under the more restrictive authority of the pertinent appropriations measures: (1) as passed by the House; (2) as passed by the Senate; (3) as agreed to by a committee of conference; or (4) as enacted for the preceding fiscal year. Requires a report from the Committee on Appropriations accompanying any appropriation bill to list all appropriations contained in the bill for any expenditure not previously authorized by law. Requires a three-fifths vote of the Members of the whole House to consider any rule or order from the Rules Committee that waives certain rules governing consideration of any short- or long-term continuing appropriations measures. Amends rule XXI to establish certain guidelines for reporting and considering reconciliation measures in the House. Exempts Senate amendments and conference reports from such guidelines. Reserves all points of order against a reconciliation bill at the time it is reported. Prohibits the consideration in the House of any bill or joint resolution which directly or indirectly authorizes enactment of new budget authority for a fiscal year unless such measure is reported in the House on or before May 15 preceding the beginning of such fiscal year. Amends rule XXIV of the rules of the House of Representatives to revise the daily order of business for the House to include the pledge of allegiance to the flag. Amends rule XXVII to establish additional criteria for entertaining motions to suspend the rules and pass a measure in the House. Requires the Clerk of the House, after 100 members have signed a motion to discharge a committee from the consideration of a measure, to: (1) cause the name of each Member who has signed or withdrawn a signature to such motion to be printed in the Congressional Record; and (2) publish an updated list in the Record at the end of each succeeding week the House is in session. Requires three-fifths (currently, a majority) of the total membership of the House to sign such motion before it can be: (1) entered on the Journal; (2) printed with the signatures in the Congressional Record; and (3) referred to the Calendar of Motions to Discharge Committees. Amends rule XXVIII to require inclusion of supplemental, minority, or additional views of a House conferee in the same published volume of the conference committee's report, if specified conditions are met. Amends rule XLVIII to require a specified oath to be administered to: (1) a newly appointed Member of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence; (2) each committee's employee; and (3) any person engaged by contract or to perform services for or at the request of the committee who is required to subscribe to the agreement in writing. Requires the Clerk of the House to provide for the printing of such oaths for: (1) filing in the records of the House; and (2) recording in the House Journal and in the Congressional Record. Directs the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct to investigate and report to the House on any violation of such oath. Authorizes the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence to refer cases of unauthorized disclosure and violations of the required oaths to such committee for investigation. Authorizes the committee by a majority vote to deny a member access to classified information if he or she is subject to a pending investigation. Directs the House Committees on Rules and on Government Operations by a certain date to report legislation granting the President enhanced rescission authority with respect to any budget authority not authorized by law. Sets forth procedures for considering such legislation if it is not reported out of such committees by the stated deadline. Directs the Committee on Rules to study and report to the House on the feasibility of converting to a biennial budget-appropriations process and corresponding multiyear authorizations. Declares that it is the policy of the House of Representatives that the following Federal laws should be amended to apply them to the House in the same or similar manner as they apply to the Executive Branch: (1) the National Labor Relations Act; (2) the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970; (3) the Equal Pay Act of 1963; (4) the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967; (5) the Freedom of Information Act; (6) the Privacy Act of 1974; (7) Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964; and (8) specified provisions of the Federal judicial code relating to an independent counsel. Directs the standing committees of the House with subject jurisdiction over such Federal laws to report legislation to the House to implement such policy. Provides for consideration of such legislation. Requires the ratio of majority party to minority party staff positions, consultants, details, and funding for House committees to be the same ratio as that of Members of the House. Eliminates the following Select Committees in the House: (1) Aging; (2) Hunger; (3) Children, Youth, and Families; and (4) Narcotics Abuse and Control. Transfers the records, files, and materials of such select committees to the Clerk of the House. Applies the Freedom of Information Act to the Congress. Exempts information related to casework or constituent correspondence from such Act with respect to Members of the Congress. Provides that the period for which expenses of the former Speakers of the House may be paid shall end three years after the expiration date of such term of office, except that in the case of a former Speaker who is receiving such expenses on the date of the enactment of this Act, the period shall end three years after such date. Amends Federal law to prohibit a Member of the House from sending any franked mass mailing outside the Member's congressional district. Authorizes a Member of Congress to mail franked mail with a simplified form of address for delivery within his or her congressional district only. (Current law permits such mailings throughout the Member's State). Prohibits the Committee on House Administration from approving any payment for, and a Member from making any expenditure from, any allowance of the House or any other official funds if any portion is for any cost related to a mass mailing by a Member of the House outside his or her congressional district. Amends the Federal Salary Act of 1967 to make it out of order to consider any bill or resolution that would adjust, or have the effect of adjusting, the salaries of Members of Congress if such measure contains any item which does not relate to adjusting Members' salaries. Prohibits consideration of any measure in the House appropriating amounts for the legislative branch of the Government if it permits such amount to remain available for obligation beyond the end of the fiscal year for which the amount is appropriated. Requires at least one attorney in the Office of the Parliamentarian in the House to be appointed upon the recommendation of the minority leader. Declares it the policy of the House of Representatives that it is inappropriate for Members of the House to have access to such items as meals, banking services, medicine, ambulance service, haircuts, and athletic facilities at costs lower than that charged to the public. Requires the Chief Financial Officer to determine the market rate of such services and to report such costs to the Speaker, minority leader, and the chairman and ranking minority party of the Committee on House Administration with recommendations for eliminating the services or continuing them at market rate prices. Directs the chairman to report a resolution that adopts the market rate of the services or proposes their elimination. Sets forth procedures for consideration of legislation that implements such policy or enacts the report of the Chief Financial Officer if such measure is not reported by the Committee on House Administration within 30 days of receiving such report. Amends rule XI to prohibit the expenditure of appropriated funds to defray expenses of committee members or employees incurred while traveling outside of the United States, its territories, or possessions, unless a committee resolution has been approved that authorizes such travel and sets forth certain requirements.
Resolution· SRESS.Res. 358 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 August 2025
Senate GATT Negotiations Observer Group Resolution - Establishes a bipartisan group of Senators to be known as the Senate GATT Negotiations Observer Group to monitor the conclusion of the Uruguay round of GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) negotiations. Terminates the Group upon the adjournment sine die of the 103d Congress.
Bill· SS. 1400 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 August 2025
General Accounting Office Reform Act of 1991 - Title I: Special Inspector General for the General Accounting Office - Establishes the Office of Special Inspector General for the General Accounting Office to be headed by the Special Inspector General. Requires the Special Inspector General to conduct a study and an audit of the operations of the General Accounting Office (GAO), which includes the drawing of samples of GAO studies and subjecting them to independent, outside review of accuracy, fairness, and professionalism. Requires appropriate reports to the Congress and the President on the results of such study and audit, including a review of whether GAO should be limited to strictly accounting and auditing functions. Authorizes appropriations. Title II: General Accounting Office Reform - Limits GAO use of funds for consulting services for FY 1992 to 75 percent of the amount spent for such services in FY 1991. Requires annual Comptroller General reports to the Congress on GAO's internal control structure. Prohibits GAO studies, investigations, or audits which have not been requested by the Congress or a Federal agency or are not required by statute. Requires reimbursement for GAO assignments and details to congressional committees and offices and to Federal agencies. Requires appropriate House and Senate leadership notification in cases of the former. Requires annual GAO reports on its employees detailed to executive agencies or the Congress for submission to the House and Senate leadership. Provides for congressional committee and Congressional Research Service and other congressional agency review and comment with respect to GAO draft reports. Prohibits GAO personnel from performing official duties in a combat zone. Requires GAO reports to the Congress and the President on studies or audits of Federal agencies to note the subject agency's lack of review or comment on such report. Requires the President to designate an Inspector General to conduct a financial audit and internal controls examination of GAO each Congress for submission to the President and the Congress. Requires the Congress to review the Special Inspector General's final report under title I and take appropriate actions.
Bill· HRH.R. 4944 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 August 2025
Job Impact Accountability Act of 1992 - Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to require the Congressional Budget Office to prepare a five-year analysis of the job loss or gain that would result from each reported bill or resolution.
Bill· HRH.R. 5187 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 August 2025
Congressional Salary Act of 1989 - Amends the Federal Salary Act of 1967 to make the recommendations of the President relating to congressional salaries of an advisory nature. Amends the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 to declare the rate of pay for Members of Congress to be that which is payable for such positions on the date of enactment of this Act. Requires increases in such rate of pay to take effect at the beginning of the following Congress. Declares the period which begins on the Tuesday following the first Monday of November of even-numbered years and which ends on the following January 3 as occurring during the first session of the following Congress.
Bill· SS. 3200 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 August 2025
Government Employee Labor Rights Act of 1992 - Amends the Civil Rights Act of 1991 (Public Law 102-166) to apply specified provisions of the National Labor Relations Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, and the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 to employees of the Senate, the House of Representatives, and instrumentalities of the Congress.
Bill· HRH.R. 4295 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 August 2025
Citizen Representative Reform Act Merit Pay Provision - Amends the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 to reduce the annual salary of a Member of Congress by five percent if the total expenditures of the Federal Government exceed its total receipts for a fiscal year. Makes the reduction effective the first pay period beginning on or after the date the Congress receives the report from the Secretary of the Treasury relating to such fiscal year. Requires such reductions in salary to be disregarded the first pay period beginning on or after the date the Congress receives a report indicating that total receipts of the Federal Government are greater than or equal to its total expenditures for a fiscal year. Requires restoration of the Member's salary for such position to the level which would then be in effect without enactment of this Act. Mandates such pay adjustments before any other adjustment scheduled to take effect on the same day for the same position. Prohibits the House of Representatives or the Senate from considering any bill or resolution increasing the salary for Members of Congress, with specified exceptions, unless the bill or resolution deals with no subject matter other than a pay increase for members. Requires a recorded vote by the House or Senate in the passage or adoption of such bill or resolution to reflect the vote of each Member voting.