[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 188 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 188

    To prohibit the use of Federal funds for the costs of painting 
     portraits of officers and employees of the Federal Government.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 23, 2017

    Mr. Cassidy (for himself, Mr. Johnson, Mrs. McCaskill, and Mrs. 
   Fischer) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
    To prohibit the use of Federal funds for the costs of painting 
     portraits of officers and employees of the Federal Government.

    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 ``Eliminating Government-funded Oil-
painting Act'' or the ``EGO Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON USE OF FUNDS FOR PORTRAITS.

    (a) Prohibition.--No funds appropriated or otherwise made available 
to the Federal Government may be used to pay for the painting of a 
portrait of an officer or employee of the Federal Government, including 
the President, the Vice President, a Member of Congress, the head of an 
executive agency, or the head of an office of the legislative branch.
    (b) Definitions.--In this section--
            (1) the term ``executive agency'' has the meaning given the 
        term in section 133 of title 41, United States Code; and
            (2) the term ``Member of Congress'' includes a Delegate or 
        Resident Commissioner to Congress.
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