‘‘(e) It shall not be in order to consider any bill or 
joint resolution, or an amendment thereto or conference 
report thereon, that carries a congressional earmark, lim-
ited tax benefit, or limited tariff benefit for which a Mem-
ber, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner failed to comply 
with any applicable requirement of clause 18 of rule 
XXIII.’’. 
(d) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 
this section shall apply to requests for congressional ear-
marks, limited tax benefits, and limited tariff benefits 
made after the date this resolution is agreed to. 
(e) CENTRALIZED DATABASE FOR EARMARKS, LIM-
ITED TAX BENEFITS, AND LIMITED TARIFF BENEFITS.— 
(1) The Clerk of the House of Representatives, the Sec-
retary of the Senate, and the chairs of the Committee on 
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the 
Senate shall collaborate to create one centralized database 
where all requests for earmark, limited tax benefits, and 
limited tariff benefits are available on the Internet in a 
searchable, sortable, downloadable format to the public. 
The data available to the public for each earmark should 
include— 
(A) an identification of the bill into which the 
earmark is to be inserted; 
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(B) the name, State, and district of the Mem-
ber of Congress requesting the earmark; 
(C) the name and address of the intended re-
cipient; 
(D) whether the intended recipient is a for-prof-
it or not-for-profit entity; 
(E) the requested amount (only in the case of 
congressional earmarks); 
(F) a brief description of the earmark; and 
(G) the applicable department or agency of the 
Government, and the account or program (if pro-
vided to the committee in the request). 
(2) The centralized database for earmarks referred 
to in paragraph (1) shall be implemented within six 
months after the date of enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 105. ONLINE POSTING OF DISBURSEMENTS FROM 
MEMBERS’ 
REPRESENTATIONAL 
ALLOW-
ANCE. 
(a) REQUIRING POSTING.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—With respect to each session 
of a Congress (beginning with the second session of 
the One Hundred Thirteenth 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-
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resentatives 
a 
machine-readable 
statement 
showing each disbursement made from the 
Members’ Representational Allowance during 
that session, and include as part of the state-
ment hyperlinks to information on the amount 
of such disbursements which are attributable to 
each specific Member of the House of Rep-
resentatives; 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). 
(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 
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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. 
(d) MEMBER DEFINED.—In this section, a ‘‘Member 
of the House of Representatives’’ includes a Delegate or 
Resident Commissioner to the Congress. 
SEC. 106. GAO STUDY AND REPORT ON EFFECTS OF WRIT-
TEN REQUESTS BY MEMBERS OF CONGRESS 
FOR FUNDING OF PROJECTS. 
(a) STUDY.—The Comptroller General shall conduct 
a study of the effect of written requests to carry out and 
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provide funding for projects and activities which are sub-
mitted to offices of the executive branch by Members of 
Congress on the decisions made by such offices regarding 
the funding of those projects and activities. 
(b) REPORT.—Not later than 1 year after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General shall 
submit to Congress a report on the study conducted under 
subsection (a). 
TITLE II—ENHANCING PUBLIC 
ACCESS TO THE WORK OF 
CONGRESSIONAL 
COMMIT-
TEES, 
LEGISLATION, 
AND 
VOTES 
SEC. 201. INCREASED TRANSPARENCY OF COMMITTEE 
WORK. 
(a) IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.—Clause 
1 of rule XI of the Rules of the House of Representatives 
is amended by adding at the end the following new para-
graph: 
‘‘(e)(1) Each committee shall post on its Internet 
website the public hearings and markup schedules of the 
committee and each of its subcommittees at the same time 
that information is made available to members of the com-
mittee. 
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‘‘(2) For each hearing and markup for which infor-
mation is posted under subparagraph (1), the committee 
shall post on its Internet website within 45 days the fol-
lowing: the topic, related legislation, testimony of wit-
nesses, opening statements of the chair and ranking mi-
nority member, transcripts, and audio and video record-
ings. 
‘‘(3) Within 24 hours after a committee or sub-
committee orders any bill or resolution to be reported, the 
committee or subcommittee, as applicable, shall post on 
its Internet website all amendments that were agreed to, 
except for technical and conforming changes authorized by 
the committee or subcommittee.’’. 
(b) IN THE SENATE.—Comparable language to be 
added by the Senate. 
SEC. 202. INCREASED TRANSPARENCY OF COMMITTEE 
SCHEDULES THROUGH THE CLERK. 
Clause 2 of rule II of the Rules of the House of Rep-
resentatives is amended by adding at the end the following 
new paragraph: 
‘‘(l) The House Committees shall provide to the 
Clerk, in a structured data format, a complete list 
of all public hearing and markup schedules of com-
mittees and subcommittees as soon as publically 
available; and the Clerk shall post this information 
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on its Web site, including links to committee 
websites.’’. 
SEC. 203. INCREASED TRANSPARENCY OF RECORDED 
VOTES. 
(a) ADDITIONAL DUTIES OF THE CLERK OF THE 
HOUSE AND THE SECRETARY OF THE SENATE.—The 
Clerk of the House of Representatives and the Secretary 
of the Senate shall post on the public Internet site of the 
Office of the Clerk or of the Secretary, respectively, a 
record, organized by the name of each Member or Senator, 
in a structured data format, of the recorded votes of that 
Member or Senator, including the roll, date, issue, ques-
tion, result, and title or description of the vote, and any 
cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office related 
to the vote. 
(b) WEB LINK.—Each Member shall provide a link 
to the Clerk of the House of Representatives of a list of 
recorded votes from that Member’s website, and each Sen-
ator shall provide a link to the Secretary of the Senate 
of a list of recorded votes from that Senator’s website. 
(c) DEFINITION.—As used in this section, the term 
‘‘Member’’ means a Representative in Congress, a delegate 
to Congress, or the Resident Commissioner from Puerto 
Rico. 
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(d) EFFECTIVE DATE.—This section shall apply to 
recorded votes occurring after the date of enactment of 
this Act. 
TITLE III—ENHANCING PUBLIC 
ACCESS TO CONGRESSIONAL 
RESEARCH SERVICE 
SEC. 301. SHORT TITLE; FINDINGS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This title may be cited as the 
‘‘Public Access to Congressional Research Service Reports 
Resolution of 2014’’ or the ‘‘Congressional Research Serv-
ice Electronic Accessibility Resolution of 2014’’. 
(b) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
(1) The Congressional Research Service, a spe-
cial reference unit within the Library of Congress, 
offers invaluable research and analysis to Members 
of Congress on all current and emerging issues of 
national policy. 
(2) The Congressional Research Service staff of 
approximately 700 employees, including lawyers, 
economists, reference librarians, and social, natural, 
and physical scientists, are governed by require-
ments for accuracy, objectivity, balance, and non-
partisanship. 
(3) The Congressional Research Service has a 
responsibility to ensure that Members of Congress 
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have available the best possible information and 
analysis on which to base the policy decisions the 
American people have elected them to make. 
(4) It is often burdensome, difficult, and time- 
consuming for citizens to obtain access to objective 
and nonpartisan policy analysis on issues affecting 
their interests. 
(5) It will enhance our democracy to provide 
citizens with access to unbiased and accurate CRS 
documents on legislation and other critical issues be-
fore Congress. 
(6) Allowing public access to CRS will empower 
citizens and enable Members of Congress to become 
even more effective ‘‘representatives’’ of the public’s 
concerns and goals. 
SEC. 302. AVAILABILITY OF CERTAIN CONGRESSIONAL RE-
SEARCH SERVICE INFORMATION. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF DATA-
BASE OF INFORMATION.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Clerk of the House of 
Representatives, in consultation with the Director of 
the Congressional Research Service, shall establish 
and 
maintain 
a 
centralized, 
searchable, 
bulk 
downloadable, electronic database consisting of— 
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(A) all of the information described in 
paragraph (2) that is available to Members, of-
ficers, employees, and offices of the House of 
Representatives through the Congressional Re-
search Service website; and 
(B) in accordance with subsection (b), an 
index of the information described in subpara-
graph (A). 
(2) INFORMATION
DESCRIBED.—The informa-
tion described in this paragraph is as follows: 
(A) Congressional Research Service Issue 
Briefs. 
(B) Congressional Research Service Re-
ports. 
(C) Congressional Research Service Au-
thorization of Appropriations Products and Ap-
propriations Products. 
(D) Materials intended or available for 
general congressional distribution that are the 
same or substantially similar in content to CRS 
Reports, Issue Briefs, and Appropriations Prod-
ucts. 
(3) SPECIFIC INFORMATION FOR MATERIALS IN-
CLUDED.—With respect to each issue brief, product, 
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or report included in the database under this sub-
section, the Clerk shall include— 
(A) the name and identification number; 
(B) the dates of initial release and updates 
(if any); and 
(C) the Congressional Research Service di-
vision or divisions that were responsible for its 
production. 
(4) UPDATES.—The Clerk, in consultation with 
the Director, shall ensure that the information in 
the database under this subsection is updated auto-
matically and electronically to reflect the availability 
of new information and updates to existing informa-
tion described in paragraph (2). 
(5) INITIAL INFORMATION.—The initial estab-
lishment of the database under this subsection shall 
include all of the contents described in paragraph 
(1) as of the date on which this resolution is agreed 
to. 
(b) INDEX OF DATABASE INFORMATION.—In addi-
tion to the database under subsection (a), the Clerk, in 
consultation with the Director, shall establish and main-
tain contemporaneously a website containing a searchable, 
sortable index of all of the information in the database 
in both human-readable and machine-readable formats 
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(such as XML) that includes for each issue brief, product, 
or report in the database— 
(1) the name and identification number; 
(2) the dates of initial release and updates (if 
any); and 
(3) the Congressional Research Service division 
or divisions that were responsible for its production. 
(c) LIMITATIONS.— 
(1) CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION.—Subsections 
(a) and (b) do not apply to— 
(A) any information that is confidential, as 
determined by— 
(i) the Director, or 
(ii) the head of a Federal department 
or agency that provided the information to 
the Congressional Research Service; or 
(B) any document that— 
(i) is the product of a confidential re-
search request made by a Member, officer, 
employee, or office of the House of Rep-
resentatives; 
(ii) has not been distributed to any in-
dividual or office other than the individual 
or office making the request; and 
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Clerk shall indicate in the database (with such 
notation as the Clerk considers appropriate) 
that more current information is available with 
respect to the material than the information 
provided in the database. 
(3) METHOD OF REDACTION.—The Clerk shall 
carry out any redaction under paragraph (2)(C) in 
a manner which removes the least amount of mate-
rial necessary to carry out the purposes of the redac-
tion. 
(4) ASSISTANCE FROM DIRECTOR FOR AUTO-
MATIC REDACTION.—The Clerk shall consult with 
the Director to ensure the availability and implemen-
tation of such technology as may be necessary to fa-
cilitate the automatic redaction of information under 
this subsection. 
(d) FURNISHING OF NECESSARY INFORMATION.— 
The Clerk shall consult with the Director to ensure that 
the Clerk is provided with all of the information necessary 
to carry out this section in such format as the Clerk con-
siders appropriate. 
SEC. 303. OTHER METHODS OF PUBLIC ACCESS. 
(a) ACCESS THROUGH WEBSITES OF MEMBERS AND 
COMMITTEES.—Each official public website of a Member 
of the House of Representatives, a committee of the House 
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of Representatives, or a joint committee of the Congress 
shall permit members of the public to use the website to 
obtain the information contained in the database estab-
lished under section 302, in the same manner and to the 
same extent as Members, officers, employees, and offices 
of the House of Representatives may obtain such informa-
tion through the Congressional Research Service website. 
(b) REGULATIONS.—Subsection (a) shall be carried 
out in accordance with regulations promulgated by the 
Committee on House Administration of the House of Rep-
resentatives. 
SEC. 304. DEFINITIONS. 
In this title— 
(1) the term ‘‘Clerk’’ means the Clerk of the 
House of Representatives; 
(2) the term ‘‘Director’’ means the Director of 
the Congressional Research Service; and 
(3) the term ‘‘Member of the House of Rep-
resentatives’’ includes a Delegate or Resident Com-
missioner to the Congress. 
SEC. 305. EFFECTIVE DATE. 
This title shall take effect upon the expiration of the 
6-month period which begins on the date of the enactment 
of this Act, without regard to whether the regulations de-
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scribed in section 303(b) or any other regulations have 
been promulgated prior to the expiration of such period. 
TITLE IV—LOBBYING 
DISCLOSURE 
SEC. 401. SHORT TITLE. 
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Lobbyist Disclosure 
Enhancement Act’’. 
SEC. 402. MODIFICATIONS TO ENFORCEMENT. 
(a) LOBBYING DISCLOSURE ACT TASK FORCE.— 
(1) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Attorney General 
shall establish the Lobbying Disclosure Act Enforce-
ment Task Force (in this subsection referred to as 
the ‘‘Task Force’’). 
(2) FUNCTIONS.—The Task Force— 
(A) shall have primary responsibility for 
investigating and prosecuting each case referred 
to the Attorney General under section 6(a)(8) 
of the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 (2 
U.S.C. 1605(a)(8)); 
(B) shall collect and disseminate informa-
tion with respect to the enforcement of the Lob-
bying Disclosure Act of 1995 (2 U.S.C. 1601 et 
seq.); 
(C) shall audit, at a minimum on an an-
nual basis, and as frequently as deemed nec-
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essary by the Task Force, the extent of compli-
ance or noncompliance with the requirements of 
the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 by lobby-
ists, lobbying firms, and registrants under that 
Act through a random sampling of lobbying 
registrations and reports filed under that Act 
during each calendar year; and 
(D) shall establish, publicize, and operate a 
toll-free telephone number to serve as a hotline 
for members of the public to report noncompli-
ance with lobbyist disclosure requirements 
under the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995, 
and shall develop a mechanism to allow mem-
bers of the public to report such noncompliance 
online. 
(b) REFERRAL OF CASES TO THE ATTORNEY GEN-
ERAL.—Section 6(a) of the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 
1995 (2 U.S.C. 1605(a)) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (8), by striking ‘‘United 
States Attorney for the District of Columbia’’ and 
inserting ‘‘Attorney General’’; and 
(2) in paragraph (11), by striking ‘‘United 
States Attorney for the District of Columbia’’ and 
inserting ‘‘Attorney General’’. 
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(c) RECOMMENDATIONS FOR IMPROVED ENFORCE-
MENT.—The Attorney General may make recommenda-
tions to Congress with respect to— 
(1) the enforcement of and compliance with the 
Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995; and 
(2) the need for resources available for the en-
hanced enforcement of the Lobbying Disclosure Act 
of 1995. 
(d) INFORMATION
IN ENFORCEMENT REPORTS.— 
Section 6(b)(1) of the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 
(2 U.S.C. 1605(b)(1)) is amended by striking ‘‘by case’’ 
and all that follows through ‘‘public record’’ and inserting 
‘‘by case and name of the individual lobbyists or lobbying 
firms involved, any sentences imposed’’. 
SEC. 403. DEFINITION OF LOBBYIST. 
Section 3(10) of the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 
(2 U.S.C. 1602(10)) is amended by striking ‘‘, other than 
an individual’’ and all that follows through ‘‘period’’. 
SEC. 404. EXPEDITED ONLINE REGISTRATION OF LOBBY-
ISTS; EXPANSION OF REGISTRANTS. 
Section 4(a) of the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 
(2 U.S.C. 1603(a)) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (1)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘45 days’’ and inserting 
‘‘10 days’’; 
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(B) by striking ‘‘, or on the first business 
day after such 45th day if such 45th day is not 
a business day,’’ and inserting ‘‘, or on the first 
business day occurring after such 10th day if 
such 10th day does not occur on a business 
day,’’; and 
(C) by inserting ‘‘online’’ after ‘‘shall reg-
ister’’; and 
(2) in paragraph (2)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘Any organization’’ and in-
serting the following: 
‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—Subject to subpara-
graph (B), any organization’’; and 
(B) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(B) THRESHOLD FOR CERTAIN ORGANI-
ZATIONS.—In the case of an organization whose 
employees who are lobbyists engage in lobbying 
activities only on behalf of the organization, the 
organization is required to register under this 
subsection only if the lobbying activities of each 
such employee includes or is expected to include 
more than one lobbying contact.’’. 
SEC. 405. DISCLOSURE OF POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS. 
Section 5(d)(1) of the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 
1995 (2 U.S.C. 1604(d)(1)) is amended— 
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