Additional Earmark Disclosure Resolution

Additional Earmark Disclosure Resolution - Amends rule XXI (Restrictions on Certain Bills) of the Rules of the House of Representatives to make it out of order to consider a conference report unless the accompanying joint explanatory statement includes: (1) a list of congressional earmarks, limited tax benefits, and limited tariff benefits (and the name of any requesting Member or Senator) that were not committed to the conference committee by either House, not in a report on such bill, or not in a report of a Senate committee on a companion measure; or (2) a statement that the proposition contains no congressional earmarks, limited tax benefits, or limited tariff benefits.

Makes it out of order also to consider an amendment between the Houses to a bill or joint resolution unless the proponent has caused to be printed in the Congressional Record before its consideration or contained in a separate part of that amendment: (1) a list of congressional earmarks, limited tax benefits, and limited tariff benefits (and the name of any requesting Member or Senator) that were not in a report on such bill, not in the report of a Senate committee on a companion measure, or not in any earlier amendment between the Houses to such measure; or (2) a statement that the proposition contains no congressional earmarks, limited tax benefits, or limited tariff benefits.

[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 920 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 920

 Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to strengthen the 
                        earmark point of order.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 15, 2008

Mr. Marshall submitted the following resolution; which was referred to 
                         the Committee on Rules

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                               RESOLUTION


 
 Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to strengthen the 
                        earmark point of order.

    Resolved, That (a) this resolution may be cited as the ``Additional 
Earmark Disclosure Resolution''.
     (b) Clause 9(a) of rule XXI of the Rules of the House of 
Representatives is amended by striking ``or'' at the end of 
subparagraph (3), by striking the period and inserting a semicolon at 
the end of subparagraph (4), and by adding at the end the following new 
subparagraphs:
            ``(5) a conference report to accompany a bill or joint 
        resolution unless the joint explanatory statement prepared by 
        the managers on the part of the House and the managers on the 
        part of the Senate includes a list of congressional earmarks, 
        limited tax benefits, and limited tariff benefits in the 
        conference report or joint statement (and the name of any 
        Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, or Senator who 
        submitted a request to the respective House or Senate 
        committees of jurisdiction for each respective item included in 
        such list) that were not committed to the conference committee 
        by either House, not in a report on such bill, or not in a 
        report of a committee of the Senate on a companion measure, or 
        a statement that the proposition contains no congressional 
        earmarks, limited tax benefits, or limited tariff benefits; or
            ``(6) an amendment between the Houses to a bill or joint 
        resolution unless the proponent has caused a list of 
        congressional earmarks, limited tax benefits, and limited 
        tariff benefits in the amendment (and the name of any Member, 
        Delegate, Resident Commissioner, or Senator who submitted a 
        request to the respective proponent for each respective item 
        included in such list) that were not in a report on such bill, 
        not in the report of a committee of the Senate on a companion 
        measure, or not in any earlier amendment between the Houses to 
        such bill or joint resolution, or a statement that the 
        proposition contains no congressional earmarks, limited tax 
        benefits, or limited tariff benefits to be printed in the 
        congressional record prior to its consideration or to be 
        contained in a separate part of that amendment to such bill or 
        joint resolution.''.
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