IV 

111TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. RES. 100 

Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to provide for earmark 

reform. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JANUARY 28, 2009 

Mr. PUTNAM submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 

Committee on Rules, and in addition to the Committee on Standards of 

Official Conduct, for a period to be subsequently determined by the 

Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within 

the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 

RESOLUTION 

Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to 

provide for earmark reform. 

1 Resolved, That (a) clause 9 of rule XXI of the Rules 

2 of the House of Representatives is amended by adding the 

3 following new paragraphs: 

4 ‘‘(h)(1) Except as provided by subparagraph (2), it 

5 shall not be in order to consider any bill or joint resolution 

6 (or accompanying report), amendment, or conference re7 port that contains a congressional earmark for a nonpublic 

8 entity. 


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1 ‘‘(2) Subparagraph (1) shall not apply to any institu2 tion of higher education within the meaning of section 101 

3 of the Higher Education Act of 1965. 

4 ‘‘(i) It shall not be in order to consider any bill or 

5 joint resolution (or accompanying report), amendment, or 

6 conference report that contains a congressional earmark 

7 for any entity named after an individual then serving as 

8 a Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, or Sen9 ator.’’. 

10 (b)(1) Clause 17 of rule XXIII of the Rules of the 

11 House of Representatives is amended by redesignating 

12 paragraph (b) as paragraph (c), in such redesignated 

13 paragraph (c) by striking: 

14 ‘‘(b) Whenever any Member, Delegate, or Resident 

15 Commissioner requests a congressional earmark in any bill 

16 or joint resolution (or accompanying report)— 

17 ‘‘(1) that Member, Delegate, or Resident Commis18 sioner shall include the amount requested, the project 

19 name, and a project description of the matter that is the 

20 subject of that congressional earmark, and submit such 

21 information to the Clerk for posting on the Web site of 

22 the Clerk within 24 hours of making such request; 

23 ‘‘(2) that request, in the case of an earmark for non24 Federal entity, shall be accompanied by a letter of support 

25 from that entity that would receive the earmark certifying 


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1 that it will provide matching funds in an amount not less 

2 than 10 percent of the amount of the earmark; and 

3 ‘‘(3) that Member, Delegate, or Resident Commis4 sioner shall provide a written statement to the chairman 

5 and ranking minority member of the committee of juris6 diction certifying that no family member of that Member, 

7 Delegate, or Resident Commissioner has any financial in8 terest in the earmark.’’. 

9 (2) Clause 17 of rule XXIII of the Rules of the House 

10 of Representatives is further amended by adding at the 

11 end the following new paragraph: 

12 ‘‘(c) In this clause, the term ‘family member’ has the 

13 same meaning as the term ‘relative’ in section 109 of the 

14 Ethics in Government Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.).’’. 

15 (c) Clause 2 of rule II of the Rules of the House of 

16 Representatives is amended by adding at the end the fol17 lowing new paragraph: 

18 ‘‘(l) The Clerk shall post on the Web site of the Clerk 

19 an up-to-date list of all information submitted to the Clerk 

20 pursuant to clause 7(b)(1) of rule XXIII under a heading 

21 entitled ‘Member Spending Requests’.’’. 

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