[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 486 Introduced in House (IH)]







104th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 486

Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to require witnesses 
 at committee hearings to submit statements identifying Federal grants 
or contracts received during the current and previous two fiscal years.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 22, 1996

 Mr. Doolittle (for himself, Mr. DeLay, and Mr. Radanovich) 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 require witnesses 
 at committee hearings to submit statements identifying Federal grants 
or contracts received during the current and previous two fiscal years.

    Resolved, That (a) clause 2(j) of rule XI of the Rules of the House 
of Representatives is amended by adding at the end the following new 
subparagraph:
    ``(3)(A) Whenever any hearing is to be conducted by any committee 
upon any measure or matter, the chairman shall notify all prospective 
witnesses that written statements submitted to the committee shall 
include the following information: the amount and source (by agency and 
program) of any Federal grant (including subgrants from other 
organizations or from a State pursuant to a Federal block grant) 
received, and contracts entered into, during the current and previous 
two fiscal years, by witnesses and any organizations they represent.
    ``(B) If any witness at a committee hearing fails to make an 
accurate disclosure of the information required by subdivision (A), 
then all testimony of that witness at that hearing shall be expunged 
from the hearing record.''.
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