[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3651 Introduced in House (IH)]







104th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3651

      To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to limit 
          expenditures in House of Representatives elections.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 13, 1996

 Mr. Pomeroy introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on House Oversight

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                                 A BILL


 
      To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to limit 
          expenditures in House of Representatives elections.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. LIMITATION ON EXPENDITURES IN HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
              ELECTIONS.

    Section 315 of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (2 U.S.C. 
441a) is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(i) A candidate for the office of Representative in, or Delegate 
or Resident Commissioner to, the Congress may not make expenditures 
with respect to an election for such office, which, in the aggregate, 
exceed $300,000.''.

SEC. 2. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    The amendment made by section 1 shall apply with respect to 
elections occurring after 1996.
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