[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 163 (2017), Part 10]
[Senate]
[Pages 14585-14586]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




             ELIMINATING GOVERNMENT-FUNDED OIL-PAINTING ACT

  Mr. LANKFORD. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate 
proceed to the immediate consideration of Calendar No. 37, S. 188.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the bill by title.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       A bill (S. 188) to prohibit the use of Federal funds for 
     the costs of painting portraits of officers and employees of 
     the Federal Government.

  There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the bill.
  Mr. LANKFORD. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the bill be 
considered read a third time and passed and the motion to reconsider be 
considered made and laid upon the table.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The bill (S. 188) was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, 
was read the third time, and passed, as follows:

                                 S. 188

       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--

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       (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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