[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 1542 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 1542

  Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to require that 
 Members official websites include congressional earmark requests and 
       video presentations for requests submitted to committees.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 20, 2010

  Ms. Pingree of Maine submitted the following resolution; which was 
       referred to the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct

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                               RESOLUTION


 
  Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to require that 
 Members official websites include congressional earmark requests and 
       video presentations for requests submitted to committees.

    Resolved, That clause 17 of rule XXIII of the Rules of the House of 
Representatives is amended by adding at the end the following new 
paragraph:
    ``(c) (1) Each Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner shall 
maintain an official website and include on it a comprehensive, 
sortable, and searchable database comprised of all congressional 
earmark request for the current fiscal year, and for the budget year 
including for each such request the name and address of any recipient, 
the purpose of the earmark, the merits of the earmark, whether it meets 
applicable eligibility requirements (if any), the amount requested, 
and, in the case of the Committee on Appropriations, a video 
presentation by the intended recipient with a link for public comment.
    ``(2) Each Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner may waive the 
requirement for a video presentation by the intended recipient of a 
congressional earmark if the Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner 
determines that the video presentation is unnecessary and places that 
determination on the official website of that Member, Delegate, or 
Resident Commissioner.''.
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