I 
111TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5997 
To amend the Rules of the House of Representatives and the Congressional 
Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to require that public 
hearings be held on all earmark requests in the district of the Member, 
Delegate, or Resident Commissioner making the request, and to further 
increase earmark transparency and accountability. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 30, 2010 
Mr. TURNER (for himself and Mr. REICHERT) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, 
and in addition to the Committee on Rules, for a period to be subse-
quently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such 
provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To amend the Rules of the House of Representatives and 
the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act 
of 1974 to require that public hearings be held on all 
earmark requests in the district of the Member, Delegate, 
or Resident Commissioner making the request, and to 
further increase earmark transparency and account-
ability. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Anti-Pork Act of 
2010’’. 
SEC. 2. PUBLIC HEARINGS ON EARMARK REQUESTS. 
(a) CERTIFICATION BY MEMBERS, DELEGATES, AND 
THE RESIDENT COMMISSIONER.—Clause 17 of rule XXIII 
of the Rules of the House of Representatives is amended 
by adding at the end the following new paragraph: 
‘‘(c) A Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner 
who requests a congressional earmark in any bill or joint 
resolution (or an accompanying report) shall provide a 
written statement to the chair and ranking minority mem-
ber of the committee of jurisdiction certifying the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(1) A governmental entity or nonprofit, non-
congressional earmark recipient within the district 
of, and designated by, such Member, Delegate, or 
Resident Commissioner has held a public hearing on 
such congressional earmark at least 30 days before 
the date of submission of the congressional earmark 
request to the committee. 
‘‘(2) Notice of such public hearing was printed 
in the appropriate local newspaper at least 15 days 
before the hearing and such notice included the fol-
lowing information: 
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‘‘(A) The name of the applicable govern-
mental entity or nonprofit, noncongressional 
earmark recipient. 
‘‘(B) The time, date, place, and purpose of 
the meeting. 
‘‘(C) A summary of the agenda and topics 
to be discussed. 
‘‘(3) If the congressional earmark request is for 
public improvement purposes, the local government 
entity having jurisdiction over the requested public 
improvement has passed a resolution in support of 
the earmark request or written an official commu-
nication binding to that governmental entity in sup-
port of the earmark request. 
‘‘(4) Not more than 50 percent of the total cost 
of the project being funded by the congressional ear-
mark shall be appropriated funds. 
‘‘(5) The congressional earmark does not fund 
any administrative costs. 
‘‘(6) The Member, Delegate, or Resident Com-
missioner has posted the congressional earmark re-
quest on the public Web site of such Member, Dele-
gate, or Resident Commissioner providing the infor-
mation described in subparagraphs (2) and (4) of 
paragraph (a) and a notice of the hearing referred 
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to in subparagraph (1) (including the date, time, 
place, and entity convening the hearing).’’. 
(b) HEARINGS ON EARMARKS BY SUBCOMMITTEES 
OF
THE HOUSE COMMITTEE
ON APPROPRIATIONS.— 
Clause 4(a) of rule X of the Rules of the House of Rep-
resentatives is amended by adding at the end the following 
new subparagraph: 
‘‘(6)(A) Before any subcommittee of the Committee 
on Appropriations may approve any bill or joint resolution 
(or any accompanying report) containing a congressional 
earmark, that subcommittee shall hold a hearing on all 
congressional earmarks requested to be included in that 
measure or any accompanying report. The chair of that 
subcommittee shall provide at least 14 days notice to the 
public on the Web site of the committee before the date 
of any such hearing and such notice shall include the time, 
place, and entity convening the hearing. As used in this 
subparagraph, the term ‘congressional earmark’ has the 
meaning given to such term in clause 9 of rule XXI. 
‘‘(B) The Member, Delegate, or Resident Commis-
sioner who requests any congressional earmark referred 
to in subdivsion (A) shall testify in support of that ear-
mark at the applicable subcommittee hearing.’’. 
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