[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 133 (Friday, August 1, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5223-S5224]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 3428. Mr. JOHNSON submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
to amendment SA3411 submitted by Ms. Collins and intended to be 
proposed to the bill H.R. 3944, making appropriations for military 
construction, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and related agencies 
for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026, and for other purposes; 
as follows:

       On page 2, after line 13, add the following:

     SEC. 4. LIMITATION ON DISCLOSURE OF EARMARKS.

       (a) Definitions.--For the purposes of this section--
       (1) the term ``congressional earmark'' has the meaning 
     given that term in clause 9 of rule XXI of the Rules of the 
     House of Representatives; and
       (2) the term ``disclosure'' means a mention or reference in 
     any communications sent from the official office of a Member 
     of Congress, any debate of a bill other than this Act in a 
     congressional committee or on the

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     floor of the Senate or the House of Representatives, any 
     media interview or appearance, any public speaking 
     engagement, or any public communications pursuant to a 
     political campaign.
       (b) Limitation.--Funds provided under any division of this 
     Act for a congressional earmark shall be rescinded if a 
     Member of Congress who requested and received the 
     congressional earmark makes a disclosure of the congressional 
     earmark outside of official debate of this Act in the 
     Committee on Appropriations of the Senate or the Committee on 
     Appropriations of the House of Representatives or on the 
     floor of the Senate or the House of Representatives.
       (c) Notice.--Not later than 15 days after the date on which 
     funds provided for any congressional earmark are rescinded 
     under subsection (b), the head of the Federal agency to which 
     the funds were made available shall notify the Committee on 
     Appropriations of the Senate and the Committee on 
     Appropriations of the House of Representatives about the 
     rescission.
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