[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2434 Introduced in Senate (IS)]








109th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2434

     To limit the amount of time Senators spend on non-legislative 
                              activities.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

               March 16 (legislative day, March 15), 2006

 Mr. Wyden (for himself and Mr. Graham) introduced the following bill; 
    which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and 
                             Administration

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                                 A BILL


 
     To limit the amount of time Senators spend on non-legislative 
                              activities.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Senate Campaign Reform Act of 
2006''.

SEC. 2. LIMITATION ON SOLICITATION OR ACCEPTANCE OF CONTRIBUTIONS.

    Paragraph 1 of rule XLI of the Standing Rules of the Senate is 
amended--
            (1) by inserting ``(a)'' after ``1.''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(b)(1) A Member of the Senate, or officer or employee of the 
Senate, shall not solicit, receive, direct, or authorize the acceptance 
of a contribution with respect to a political committee authorized by 
or affiliated with a Senator at any time other than during the period 
beginning on the date that is 18 months prior to the date of the next 
general election for the office held by such Senator and ending on the 
date of such election.
    ``(2) This subparagraph shall not apply for the period beginning on 
the date in which a candidate opposing a Senator receives contributions 
or makes expenditures in excess of $100,000.
    ``(3)(A) This subparagraph shall not apply in any case in which a 
Senator is targeted (by name or office) in broadcast advertisements 
paid for by an individual or group that is not affiliated with any 
candidate for the Senate, but only to the extent that contributions do 
not exceed the amount paid by the individual or group for such 
advertisements.
    ``(B) Contributions permitted by subclause (A) shall be used for 
the sole purpose of responding to such advertisements, and funds 
remaining at the conclusion of such response shall be returned to the 
individual contributors (based on the percentage of the total amount 
contributed).
    ``(C) Not later than 30 days after the date on which a response is 
made under subclause (B), the Senator shall submit for review to the 
Select Committee on Ethics of the Senate the amount raised, copies of 
the advertisements in question, and the dates and outlets on which the 
advertisements were run.
    ``(4) This subparagraph shall not apply to any authorized committee 
of a Senator who is a candidate for an office other than Senator, but 
only if such committee is established for the purpose of running for 
such other office and no contribution accepted by the committee is used 
for the purpose of running for the office of Senator.
    ``(5) Any term used in this subparagraph which is also used in the 
Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (2 U.S.C. 331 et seq.) shall have 
the meaning given such term under such Act.''.
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