Witness Sunshine Resolution
Latest action · Sep 29, 2010 Referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7836)
Progress
Where this resolution reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried. A simple resolution is the business of one chamber alone: it is not sent to the other chamber or to the President, and does not become law.
- IntroducedSep 29, 2010
- Agreed to in SenateNot reached
Summary
Witness Sunshine Resolution - Amends Rule XXVI (Committee Procedure) of the Standing Rules of the Senate to require each Senate committee (including the Committee on Appropriations) to require each witness who is to appear before the committee to file with the clerk of the committee, at least one day before a scheduled appearance, a disclosure form identifying any arrangement, affiliation, relationship, or substantial financial interest the witness has with any organization, company, or private or government entity directly related to the subject of the hearing, unless the committee chairman and the ranking minority member determine that there is good cause for noncompliance. Allows a witness who is a federal employee to comply with this disclosure requirement, at the discretion of the committee chairman and the ranking minority member, by submitting an Executive Branch Personnel Public Financial Disclosure Report.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Sep 29, 2010Introduced in Senate
- Sep 29, 2010Referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7836)
- Sep 29, 2010Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7836-7837)
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Congress.
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Sep 29, 2010Introduced in Senate
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