IV 
118TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 491 
Requiring Members of the House of Representatives to post monthly activity 
reports on their official public websites, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 9, 2023 
Ms. PORTER submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 
Committee on House Administration 
RESOLUTION 
Requiring Members of the House of Representatives to post 
monthly activity reports on their official public websites, 
and for other purposes. 
Resolved, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This resolution may be cited as the ‘‘Congress at 
Work Act’’. 
SEC. 2. POSTING OF MONTHLY MEMBER ACTIVITY RE-
PORTS. 
(a) REQUIREMENT.—Each Member of the House of 
Representatives, including each Delegate and Resident 
Commissioner to the Congress, shall post on the Member’s 
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official public website a monthly activity report which con-
sists of the following information: 
(1) Information on the Member’s schedule dur-
ing the month, as described in paragraph (1) of sub-
section (b). 
(2) Information on the Member’s activity at 
committee hearings and other meetings during the 
month, as described in paragraph (2) of subsection 
(b). 
(3) Information on the Member’s voting record 
during the month, as described in paragraph (3) of 
subsection (b). 
(4) Information on the Member’s legislative ac-
tivity during the month, as described in paragraph 
(4) of subsection (b). 
(b) DESCRIPTION OF INFORMATION REQUIRED.— 
(1) SCHEDULE.—The information described in 
this paragraph is a description of the Member’s 
schedule, including a list of the meetings and events 
the Member actually attended which were related to 
the Member’s official and representational duties 
and the names of the individuals and entities who 
attended meetings with the Member. 
(2) COMMITTEE
ACTIVITY.—The information 
described in this paragraph is a record of the Mem-
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ber’s attendance at hearings and other meetings of 
each standing, special, and select committee of the 
House on which the Member sits, together with a 
record of how the Member voted on each recorded 
vote (if any) taken at such meetings, presented in 
the form of a hyperlink to the report posted by the 
committee under section 3. 
(3) VOTING
RECORD.—The information de-
scribed in this paragraph is a record of how the 
Member voted on each recorded vote taken in the 
House or the Committee of the Whole House on the 
State of the Union, as follows: 
(A) The number of the bill, resolution, 
joint resolution, conference report, or amend-
ment involved, together with a hyperlink to the 
bill, resolution, joint resolution, conference re-
port, or amendment on congress.gov. 
(B) The roll call number of the recorded 
vote, together with a hyperlink to the roll call 
number on the site of the Office of the Clerk 
of the House. 
(C) The date on which the vote was re-
corded. 
(D) How the Member voted. 
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