HR 1701 · 115th Congress 2017–2019, ended

EGO Act

Introduced Mar 23, 2017 Originated House Sponsor Matt Cartwright D-PA

Fact sheet

Latest action · Jan 11, 2018 Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 381.

Progress

Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.

IntroducedMar 23, 2017
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Eliminating Government-funded Oil-painting Act or the EGO Act

(Sec. 2) This bill prohibits the use of funds appropriated or otherwise made available to the federal government to pay for an official portrait of an officer or employee of the federal government, including the President, the Vice President, a Member of Congress, the head of an executive agency, or the head of an office of the legislative branch.

Cosponsors 10

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 23, 2017 to Sep 13, 2017, with 7 there on the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-IL	Cheri Bustos	Original	Mar 23, 2017
R-WV	David B. McKinley	Original	Mar 23, 2017
R-OK	Jim Bridenstine	Original	Mar 23, 2017
R-NJ	Leonard Lance	Original	Mar 23, 2017
R-TX	Pete Olson	Original	Mar 23, 2017
R-SC	Tom Rice	Original	Mar 23, 2017
R-NC	Walter B. Jones	Original	Mar 23, 2017
R-VA	Dave Brat		Apr 3, 2017
R-UT	Mia B. Love		Apr 3, 2017
R-OK	Steve Russell		Sep 13, 2017

Actions 7

Everything that happened, newest first.

Jan 11, 2018Committee on House Administration discharged.
Jan 11, 2018Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 381.
Jan 11, 2018Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. H. Rept. 115-511, Part I.
Sep 13, 2017Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Sep 13, 2017Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.

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Related bills 1

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

Bill	Title	Relationship	Latest action
S 188	EGO Act	Identical bill	Mar 27, 2018

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Government Operations and Politics.

Text 2

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Jan 11, 2018Reported in House
Mar 23, 2017Introduced in House

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