[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 9726 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 9726

  To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to establish an 
     expenditure limit with respect to candidates for the House of 
                            Representatives.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 16, 2026

 Mr. Barrett introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                   Committee on House Administration

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to establish an 
     expenditure limit with respect to candidates for the House of 
                            Representatives.

    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 ``Campaign Accountability and Parity 
Act'' or the ``CAP Act''.

SEC. 2. ANNUAL EXPENDITURE LIMIT FOR HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
              CANDIDATES.

    Title III of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (52 U.S.C. 
30101 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following:

``SEC. 325. ANNUAL EXPENDITURE LIMIT FOR HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
              CANDIDATES.

    ``The principal campaign committee of a candidate for the office of 
Representative in, or Delegate or Resident Commissioner to, the House 
of Representatives may not make in a year expenditures aggregating in 
excess of the average amount made available for use in the previous 
year by a Member of the House of Representatives from the Members' 
Representational Allowance established in section 101 of the House of 
Representatives Administrative Reform Technical Corrections Act (2 
U.S.C. 5341).''.
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