[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 284 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 284

 Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to strengthen the 
 point of order against the consideration of legislation that contains 
                        congressional earmarks.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 29, 2007

   Mr. Flake (for himself, Mr. Bilbray, Mr. Lamborn, and Mr. Pitts) 
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 
 point of order against the consideration of legislation that contains 
                        congressional earmarks.

    Resolved,  That clause 9 of rule XXI of the Rules of the House of 
Representatives is amended as follows:
            (1) Before the period at the end of paragraph (c), add the 
        following: ``, or any inaccuracy in the list required by 
        paragraph (a) or any inaccuracy in such statement''.
            (2) At the end, add the following new paragraph:
    ``(g) For the purposes of this clause, any provision or report 
language that is inserted by the chairman of a standing committee or 
any subcommittee thereof with subject matter jurisdiction over the 
measure containing such provision or report language and that would be 
a congressional earmark, limited tax benefit, or limited tariff benefit 
but for the fact that it was not requested by any Member, Delegate, 
Resident Commissioner, or Senator, and that is either targeted to the 
congressional district of such chairman or unrelated to the purpose of 
the underlying measure shall be required to be included in the 
applicable list of congressional earmarks, limited tax benefits, or 
limited tariff benefits.''.
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