IV 
112TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 135 
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 
MARCH 1, 2011 
Mr. PETERS (for himself 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. 
Resolved, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This resolution may be cited as the ‘‘Holding Con-
gress Accountable Act of 2011’’. 
SEC. 2. ONLINE POSTING OF DISBURSEMENTS FROM MEM-
BERS’ REPRESENTATIONAL ALLOWANCE. 
(a) REQUIRING POSTING.— 
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•HRES 135 IH 
(1) IN GENERAL.—With respect to each session 
of a Congress— 
(A) the Chief Administrative Officer of the 
House of Representatives shall post on the offi-
cial public Internet site of the House of Rep-
resentatives a statement showing each disburse-
ment made from the Members’ Representa-
tional Allowance during that session, and in-
clude as part of the statement hyperlinks to in-
formation on the amount of such disbursements 
which are attributable to each specific Member 
of the House of Representatives; and 
(B) except as provided in paragraph (2), 
each Member of the House of Representatives 
shall include on the Member’s official public 
Internet site a hyperlink to the information pro-
vided on the House of Representatives site 
under subparagraph (A) with respect to the dis-
bursements made by the Member. 
(2) EXCEPTION
FOR
FORMER
MEMBERS.— 
Paragraph (1)(B) does not apply to any individual 
who is not a Member of the House of Representa-
tives at the time the Chief Administrative Officer 
posts the statement described in paragraph (1)(A). 
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•HRES 135 IH 
(b) SOURCE
OF INFORMATION.—The information 
provided on the House of Representatives site under sub-
section (a)(1) shall be based on the reports of disburse-
ments for the operations of the House of Representatives 
which are submitted by the Chief Administrative Officer 
under section 106 of the House of Representatives Admin-
istrative Reform Technical Corrections Act (2 U.S.C. 
104b). 
(c) DEADLINES.— 
(1) CHIEF
ADMINISTRATIVE
OFFICER.—The 
Chief Administrative Officer shall post the informa-
tion required under subsection (a)(1) with respect to 
a session of Congress not later than 30 days after 
the publication of the final report of disbursements 
for the operations of the House of Representatives 
(as described in subsection (b)) for that session. 
(2) MEMBERS.—Each Member of the House of 
Representatives shall meet the requirements of sub-
section (a)(2) not later than 5 days after the Chief 
Administrative Officer posts the information re-
quired under subsection (a)(1) with respect to a ses-
sion of Congress. 
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(d) MEMBER DEFINED.—In this section, a ‘‘Member 
of the House of Representatives’’ includes a Delegate or 
Resident Commissioner to the Congress. 
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