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111TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. RES. 1707 

Requiring the posting of information on the disbursements made during 

each session of Congress from the Members’ Representational Allowance 

on official public Internet sites of the House of Representatives, and 

for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010 

Mr. PETERS (for himself, Mr. LEVIN, and Mr. HIMES) submitted the following 

resolution; which was referred to the Committee on House Administration 

RESOLUTION 

Requiring the posting of information on the disbursements 

made during each session of Congress from the Members’ 

Representational Allowance on official public Internet 

sites of the House of Representatives, and for other 

purposes. 

1 Resolved, 

2 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

3 This resolution may be cited as the ‘‘Holding Con4 gress Accountable Resolution of 2010’’. 

5 SEC. 2. ONLINE POSTING OF DISBURSEMENTS FROM MEM6 BERS’ REPRESENTATIONAL ALLOWANCE. 

7 (a) REQUIRING POSTING.— 


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1 (1) IN GENERAL.—With respect to each session 

2 of a Congress— 

3 (A) the Chief Administrative Officer of the 

4 House of Representatives shall post on the offi5 cial public Internet site of the House of Rep6 resentatives a statement showing each disburse7 ment made from the Members’ Representa8 tional Allowance during that session, and in9 clude as part of the statement hyperlinks to in10 formation on the amount of such disbursements 

11 which are attributable to each specific Member 

12 of the House of Representatives; and 

13 (B) except as provided in paragraph (2), 

14 each Member of the House of Representatives 

15 shall include on the Member’s official public 

16 Internet site a hyperlink to the information pro17 vided on the House of Representatives site 

18 under subparagraph (A) with respect to the dis19 bursements made by the Member. 

20 (2) EXCEPTION FOR FORMER MEMBERS.— 

21 Paragraph (1)(B) does not apply to any individual 

22 who is not a Member of the House of Representa23 tives at the time the Chief Administrative Officer 

24 posts the statement described in paragraph (1)(A). 


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1 (b) SOURCE OF INFORMATION.—The information 

2 provided on the House of Representatives site under sub3 section (a)(1) shall be based on the reports of disburse4 ments for the operations of the House of Representatives 

5 which are submitted by the Chief Administrative Officer 

6 under section 106 of the House of Representatives Admin7 istrative Reform Technical Corrections Act (2 U.S.C. 

8 104b). 

9 (c) DEADLINES.— 

10 (1) CHIEF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER.—The 

11 Chief Administrative Officer shall post the informa12 tion required under subsection (a)(1) with respect to 

13 a session of Congress not later than 30 days after 

14 the publication of the final report of disbursements 

15 for the operations of the House of Representatives 

16 (as described in subsection (b)) for that session, ex17 cept that the Chief Administrative Officer shall post 

18 the information with respect to the first session of 

19 the One Hundred Eleventh Congress not later than 

20 30 days after the date of the adoption of this resolu21 tion. 

22 (2) MEMBERS.—Each Member of the House of 

23 Representatives shall meet the requirements of sub24 section (a)(2) not later than 5 days after the Chief 

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1 quired under subsection (a)(1) with respect to a ses2 sion of Congress. 

3 (d) MEMBER DEFINED.—In this section, a ‘‘Member 

4 of the House of Representatives’’ includes a Delegate or 

5 Resident Commissioner to the Congress. 

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