SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSE. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds that, while the 
United States is endeavoring to bring democracy to coun-
tries such as Iraq and Afghanistan, recent events in the 
Congress have battered the pillars of our democratic sys-
tem here at home within the world’s greatest deliberative 
body. 
(b) PURPOSE.—The purpose of this Act is to stop 
this loss of democracy here at home and prevent further 
occurrences of recent injustices including—
(1) barring Members appointed to conference 
committees from attending meetings of those com-
mittees; 
(2) calling the Capitol Police to forcibly remove 
Members from legislative meetings; 
(3) extending the time limit on recorded votes 
from minutes to hours to alter the outcome; 
(4) attaching special-interest amendments to 
conference reports that have not been the subject of 
hearings or votes in either House or contained in the 
underlying legislation as passed either House; 
(5) redrawing congressional districts for par-
tisan political gains in between censuses; 
(6) requiring Members to vote on legislation 
that has not been circulated or read;
(7) allegedly offering a bribe on the House 
floor; 
(8) allegedly stealing confidential documents 
from a committee’s computer server; and 
(9) spending committee funds to pay for mass 
mail communications to individual Members’ dis-
tricts. 
SEC. 3. TIME LIMIT ON ROLL CALL VOTES. 
The last sentence of clause 2(a) of rule XX of the 
House of Representatives is amended by inserting ‘‘and, 
except by unanimous consent or mutual agreement of the 
majority and minority leaders, the maximum time shall 
be 17 minutes’’ before the period at the end. 
SEC. 4. ACTUAL VOTING REQUIRED IN CONFERENCE COM-
MITTEE MEETINGS. 
Clause 8(a) of rule XXII of the Rules of the House 
of Representatives is amended by adding at the end the 
following new subparagraph: 
‘‘(3) It shall not be in order to consider a conference 
report unless the senior manager from the majority party 
on the part of the House as so designated for that purpose 
by the majority leader and the senior manager from the 
minority party on the part of the House as so designated 
for that purpose by the minority leader include in the 
statement of managers accompanying such conference re-
port a signed statement that all House managers have 
been afforded an opportunity at a meeting of the com-
mittee on conference to vote on all amendments and other 
propositions considered by that committee.’’. 
SEC. 5. GERMANENESS REQUIREMENT FOR CONFERENCE 
REPORTS MAY NOT BE WAIVED. 
Clause 6(c) of rule XIII of the Rules of the House 
of Representatives is amended by adding at the end the 
following new subparagraph: 
‘‘(3) a rule or order that would prevent a Mem-
ber from making a point of order against non-
germane matter in a conference agreement pursuant 
to clause 9 of rule XXII.’’. 
SEC. 6. REMOVAL OF MEMBERS FROM COMMITTEE MEET-
INGS. 
Clause 3 of rule II of the Rules of the House of Rep-
resentatives is amended by adding at the end the following 
new paragraph: 
‘‘(g) The duty to forcibly remove a Member, Delegate, 
or Resident Commissioner from any committee meeting 
room shall reside exclusively with the Sergeant-at-Arms 
and such removal may only be executed at the request of 
any other such individual.’’.