Clean Up Congress Act
Latest action · Jun 28, 2019 Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.
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.
- IntroducedJun 5, 2019
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Clean Up Congress Act
This bill (1) revises the post-employment lobbying ban on former Members of Congress, (2) prohibits the use of federal funds for certain official travel expenses of Members, and (3) prohibits automatic pay adjustments for Members during any year following a budget deficit.
Specifically, this bill imposes a permanent ban on lobbying contacts by a former Member of the Senate (currently, a two-year ban), or a former Member of the House of Representatives (currently, a one-year ban). The bill maintains the current one-year ban on elected officers of the House.
In addition, the bill (1) prohibits the use of federal funds for official travel expenses of a Member for airline accommodations that are not coach-class accommodations, and (2) prohibits an automatic adjustment to the pay of Members if the Congressional Budget Office determines that there was a federal budget deficit in the last fiscal year.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 4
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jun 28, 2019Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
- Jun 28, 2019Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.
- Jun 5, 2019Introduced in House
- Jun 5, 2019Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and Oversight and Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Congress.
- Aviation and airports
- Budget deficits and national debt
- Budget process
- Congress
- Congressional oversight
- Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
- Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
- House of Representatives
- Inflation and prices
- Members of Congress
- Public participation and lobbying
- Transportation costs
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jun 5, 2019Introduced in House
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