I
103D CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 3801
To improve the operations of the legislative branch of the Federal
Government, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
FEBRUARY 3, 1994
Mr. HAMILTON introduced the following bill; which was referred jointly to the
Committees on Rules, House Administration, and Government Operations
A BILL
To improve the operations of the legislative branch of the
Federal Government, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS.
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the
‘‘Legislative Reorganization Act of 1994’’.
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.
Sec. 2. Rulemaking power of Senate and House.
TITLE I—HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Sec. 101. Multiple referral of legislation.
Sec. 102. Membership on committees.
Sec. 103. Scheduling.
Sec. 104. Subcommittee meetings prohibited during full committee meetings.
Sec. 105. Committee reports.
Sec. 106. Notice of jurisdictional violations.
Sec. 107. Independent investigations and factfinding for ethics investigations.
Sec. 108. Use of independent factfinders by the Committee on Standards of Of-
ficial Conduct.
Sec. 109. Term of membership and chairmanship on Permanent Select Com-
mittee on Intelligence
Sec. 110. Reform of oversight process.
Sec. 111. Staff training.
Sec. 112. Availability of legislative information.
Sec. 113. Public understanding of Congress.
Sec. 114. House-Senate staff salary parity.
Sec. 115. Expansion of unauthorized appropriations points of order.
Sec. 116. Motion to recommit.
Sec. 117. Debate in the House.
Sec. 118. Committee reports.
Sec. 119. Publication of committee attendance and voting records.
Sec. 120. Accuracy of the Congressional Record.
Sec. 121. Recodification of Rules of the House of Representatives.
TITLE II—SENATE
TITLE III—JOINT HOUSE AND SENATE MATTERS
Subtitle A—Congressional Budget Process
CHAPTER 1—BIENNIAL BUDGETING
Sec. 301. Revision of timetable.
Sec. 302. Amendments to the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control
Act of 1974.
Sec. 303. Amendments to title 31, United States Code.
Sec. 304. Two-year appropriations; title and style of appropriations Acts.
Sec. 305. Conforming amendments to Rules of House of Representatives.
Sec. 306. Multiyear authorizations.
CHAPTER 2—ADDITIONAL BUDGET PROCESS CHANGES
Sec. 321. CBO reports to budget committees.
Sec. 322. GNP budget analysis; fiscal and budget policy reports.
Sec. 323. Government-wide review.
Sec. 324. Content of budget resolutions.
CHAPTER 3—EFFECTIVE DATE
Sec. 331. Effective date; application.
Subtitle B—Staffing and Instrumentalities
Sec. 341. Legislative branch streamlining and restructuring.
Sec. 342. Authorization and funding of certain congressional instrumentalities.
Sec. 343. Coordination of legislative branch services.
Sec. 344. Competitive bidding for legislative branch services and facilities.
Subtitle C—Application of Federal Laws
Sec. 351. Definitions.
Sec. 352. Application of laws.
Sec. 353. Office of compliance.
Sec. 354. Study and regulations.
Sec. 355. Other functions.
Sec. 356. Procedure for consideration of alleged violations.
Sec. 357. Step I: Counseling.
Sec. 358. Step II: Mediation.
Sec. 359. Step III: Formal complaint and hearing.
Sec. 360. Judicial review.
Sec. 361. Resolution of complaint.
Sec. 362. Prohibition of intimidation.
Sec. 363. Confidentiality.
Sec. 364. Political affiliation and place of residence.
Sec. 365. Other review.
Subtitle D—Miscellaneous
Sec. 371. Sunset agency reporting requirements.
Sec. 372. Joint committee on information management.
Subtitle E—Budget Control
Sec. 381. Short title; purpose.
Sec. 382. Establishment of direct spending targets.
Sec. 383. Annual review of direct spending and receipts by president.
Sec. 384. Special direct spending message by President.
Sec. 385. Required response by Congress.
Sec. 386. Adjustments to direct spending targets.
Sec. 387. Relationship to Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act
of 1985.
Sec. 388. Estimating margin.
Sec. 389. Consideration of appropriation bills.
Sec. 390. Means-tested programs.
Sec. 391. Effective date.
SEC. 2. RULEMAKING POWER OF SENATE AND HOUSE.
The provisions of this Act (as applicable) are enacted
by the Congress—
(1) insofar as applicable to the House of Rep-
resentatives, as an exercise of the rulemaking power
of the House of Representatives, subject to and with
full recognition of the power of the House of Rep-
resentatives to enact or change any rule of the
House at any time in its exercise of its constitutional
right to determine the rules of its proceedings; and
(2) insofar as applicable to the Senate, as an
exercise of the rulemaking power of the Senate and,
to the extent so applicable, those sections are
deemed a part of the Standing Rules of the Senate,
superseding other individual rules of the Senate only
to the extent that those sections are inconsistent
with those other individual Senate rules, subject to
and with full recognition of the power of the Senate
to enact or change any rule of the Senate at any
time in its exercise of its constitutional right to de-
termine the rules of its proceedings.
TITLE I—HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES
SEC. 101. MULTIPLE REFERRAL OF LEGISLATION.
Clause 5(c) of rule X of the Rules of the House of
Representatives is amended—
(1) by inserting ‘‘and subject-matter’’ after
‘‘time’’; and
(2) by adding at the end the following new sen-
tence:
‘‘If practicable, whenever the Speaker refers a matter
simultaneously to two or more committees, he shall ini-
tially designate one committee as the committee of pri-
mary jurisdiction and subsequently place appropriate time
and subject-matter limitations for completion of consider-
ation of the matter by any other committee after the com-
mittee of primary jurisdiction reports the matter.’’.
SEC. 102. MEMBERSHIP ON COMMITTEES.
(a) MAXIMUM NUMBER OF COMMITTEE AND SUB-
COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS.—Clause 6(a) of rule X of the
Rules of the House of Representatives is amended by add-
ing at the end the following new subparagraph:
‘‘(3)(A) Except as provided by subdivision (E), no
Member (including the Resident Commissioner from Puer-
to Rico and each Delegate to the House) may serve on
more than 2 standing committees or 4 subcommittees of
those standing committees.
‘‘(B) Any resolution submitted pursuant to the first
sentence of subparagraph (1) that violates subdivision (A)
shall not be privileged.
‘‘(C) Before any committee may approve any sub-
committee assignment that violates subdivision (A), the
chairman or the ranking minority party member, as the
case may be, shall notify the appropriate party caucus.
Each such nomination for subcommittee membership shall
have no force or effect until approved by the House.
‘‘(D) If a Member notifies the House of that Mem-
ber’s intention to make a unanimous consent request or
to offer a privileged motion to request a vote to waive the
limitation set forth in subdivision (A) with respect to that
Member, then after the passage of 48 hours, the Speaker
may entertain, upon recommendation of the respective
party caucus, a unanimous consent request of that Mem-
ber or a privileged motion for the waiver of the limitation
set forth in subdivision (A) with respect to that Member.
No such privileged motion or unanimous consent request
may be made for more than one Member at a time.
‘‘(E)(i) This subparagraph shall not apply to the
Committee on Standards of Official Conduct.
‘‘(ii) Members serving on the Committee on the
Budget may serve on one other standing committee during
their term of service on the Committee on the Budget.
Such Members may take a leave of absence from service
on any committee or subcommittee during the period they
serve on the Budget Committee and their seniority rights
on such committees and on each subcommittee to which
they were assigned at the time shall be fully protected as
if they had continued to serve during the period on leave
of absence. Any Member on such a leave of absence from
a standing committee shall not be deemed to be in viola-
tion of any committee or subcommittee service limitation
in this subparagraph.’’.
(b) DE MINIMIS RULE
FOR CONTINUATION
OF
STANDING COMMITTEES.—Clause 6 of rule X of the Rules
of the House of Representatives is amended by adding at
the end the following new paragraph:
‘‘(i) If the membership of a standing committee for
a Congress is below 50 percent of the number of members
serving on that committee at the end of the One Hundred
Third Congress, then the Committee on Rules shall con-
sider a resolution amending these Rules to eliminate that
committee and transfer its jurisdiction to one or more
other standing committees.’’.
(c) RESTRICTION
ON
NUMBER
OF
SUBCOMMIT-
TEES.—Clause 6(d) of rule X of the Rules of the House
of Representatives is amended to read as follows:
‘‘(d)(1) No exclusive or major committee, except the
Committee on Appropriations, shall have more than 5 sub-
committees. No nonmajor committee shall have more than
4 subcommittees.
‘‘(2) As used in this paragraph, the terms exclusive,
major, and nonmajor, when referring to a committee, shall
have the meanings given them by the rules of the majority
party caucus.
‘‘(3) No committee may establish any subunit of that
committee other than a subcommittee, unless the House,
by resolution, authorizes such establishment.’’.
SEC. 103. SCHEDULING.
(a) LEGISLATIVE ACTIVITIES OF THE HOUSE.—It is
the sense of the House of Representatives that there
should be established a schedule of legislative activities of
the House that—
(1) provides for 4 full days of legislative busi-
ness per week while the House is in session;
(2) sets aside specific periods exclusively for
floor proceedings and exclusively for committee
meetings and hearings;
(3) rationalizes the scheduling of committee and
subcommittee meetings and hearings to minimize
scheduling conflicts; and
(4) encourages the use of computerized schedul-
ing to minimize such conflicts and requires that the
House Information Systems provide training to com-
mittee and subcommittee staff on the use of comput-
erized scheduling.
(b) NOTIFICATION OF COMMITTEE AND SUBCOMMIT-
TEE MEETINGS AND HEARINGS.—Clause 2(g)(3) of rule
XI of the Rules of the House of Representatives is amend-
ed—
(1) in the first sentence by striking ‘‘committee
hearing’’ and inserting ‘‘committee or subcommittee
meeting or hearing’’;
(2) in the first sentence by inserting ‘‘meeting
or’’ before ‘‘hearing.’’; and
(3) in the second sentence by inserting ‘‘meet-
ing or’’ before ‘‘hearing’’.
SEC. 104. SUBCOMMITTEE MEETINGS PROHIBITED DURING
FULL COMMITTEE MEETINGS.
Clause 2(g) of rule XI is amended by adding at the
end the following new subparagraph:
‘‘(7) No subcommittee of any committee may sit
when a meeting or hearing of the committee is in progress
without the prior written approval of the chairman of that
committee.’’.
‘‘SEC. 105. COMMITTEE REPORTS.
‘‘Clause 3 of rule XXI of the Rules of the House of
Representatives is amended to read as follows:
‘‘3. A report from any committee accompanying any
bill authorizing or providing obligational authority or tax
expenditures (as defined by section 3(3) of the Congres-
sional Budget Act of 1974), or the joint explanatory state-
ment accompanying a conference report on any bill au-
thorizing or providing obligational authority or tax ex-
penditures shall contain a concise statement—
‘‘(1) describing fully the effect of any provision
of the accompanying bill or conference report which
directly or indirectly changes the application of ex-
isting laws; and
‘‘(2) in a separate, clearly identifiable part of
the report or joint explanatory statement, list each
item in the accompanying bill (or that report) or
conference report (or that joint explanatory state-
ment) that earmarks the required use of funds below
the appropriation account level or provides a specific
tax expenditure.’’.
SEC. 106. NOTICE OF JURISDICTIONAL VIOLATIONS.
Rule XXI of the Rules of the House of Representa-
tives is amended by adding at the end the following new
clause:
‘‘8. (a) Whenever the Committee on Appropriations
orders reported any general appropriation bill which in-
cludes any provision in violation of clause 2 or 6 and with-
in the jurisdiction of any other standing committee, it
shall immediately notify that committee.
‘‘(b) Whenever any other committee of the House or-
ders reported any bill or resolution, or amendment thereto,
carrying an appropriation from a committee not having
jurisdiction to report appropriations in violation of clause
5, that committee shall immediately notify the Committee
on Appropriations.
‘‘(c) The Committee on Appropriations shall deliver
copies of appropriation bills as passed the House with
numbered Senate amendments to the appropriate author-
izing committees at least 24 hours before requesting ap-
pointment of conferees thereon unless the Speaker deter-
mines otherwise. The Committee on Appropriations shall,
upon the filing of a conference report on an appropriation
measure, deliver copies of the conference report and ac-
companying joint explanatory statement to the appro-
priate authorizing committees at least 24 hours before
floor action thereon unless the Speaker determines other-
wise.’’.
SEC. 107. INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATIONS AND FACTFIND-
ING FOR ETHICS INVESTIGATIONS.
(a) APPOINTMENT OF INDEPENDENT PANEL.—(1)
The Speaker and the minority leader of the House of Rep-
resentatives 
shall 
appoint 
jointly 
independent
factfinders at the beginning of each Congress to carry out
investigations on behalf of the House of Representatives
as required by the Committee on Standards of Official
Conduct. Independent factfinders appointed under this
section may include former Members of Congress, former
officers or employees of the Congress, or other private
citizens.
(2) No individual who engages in, or is otherwise em-
ployed in, lobbying of the Congress and who is required
under the Federal Regulation of Lobbying Act to register
with the Clerk of the House of Representatives or the
Secretary of the Senate shall be considered eligible for ap-
pointment as an independent factfinder under this sub-
section.
(b) COMPENSATION OF FACTFINDERS.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—Each independent factfinder
shall be compensated at a rate equal to the daily
equivalent of the annual rate of basic pay prescribed
for level IV of the Executive Schedule under section
5315 of title 5, United States Code, for each day
(including travel time) during which the independent
factfinder is engaged in the performance of his or
her duties under this section.
(2) TRAVEL
EXPENSES.—Each independent
factfinder shall be allowed travel expenses, including
per diem in lieu of subsistence, at rates authorized
for employees of agencies under subchapter I of
chapter 57 of title 5, United States Code, while
away from his or her home or regular place of busi-
ness in the performance of his or her duties under
this section.
SEC. 108. USE OF INDEPENDENT FACTFINDERS BY THE
COMMITTEE ON STANDARDS OF OFFICIAL
CONDUCT.
The Committee on Standards of Official Conduct of
the House of Representatives shall adopt rules—
(1) allowing the committee to decide whether to
use, on a case-by-case basis, 4 or 6 independent
factfinders appointed in lieu of a 4 or 6-member in-
vestigative subcommittee whenever the committee
votes to conduct a preliminary inquiry;
(2) providing for the joint selection of 4 or 6
independent factfinders by the chairman and rank-
ing minority party member from the pool of 20 inde-
pendent factfinders appointed pursuant to section
107(a);
(3) 
providing 
that 
whenever 
independent
factfinders are used in lieu of a 4 or 6-member in-
vestigative subcommittee—
(A) upon completion of an investigation,
the independent factfinders shall report their
findings of fact and recommendations, if any, to
the committee;
(B) if the independent factfinders, by ma-
jority vote, adopt a statement of alleged viola-
tion, the entire committee shall be deemed to be
an adjudicatory subcommittee and be governed
by the rules adopted by the committee to carry
out section 803(d) of the Ethics Reform Act of
1989;
(4) providing that independent factfinders con-
ducting an investigation pursuant to this subsection
shall have the same power to investigate as vested
in the investigative subcommittee, subject to the ap-
proval of the chairman and ranking minority party
member; and
(5) providing that the staff of the committee
shall assist the independent factfinders in carrying
out their responsibilities.
SEC. 109. TERM OF MEMBERSHIP AND CHAIRMANSHIP ON
PERMANENT SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTEL-
LIGENCE
Clause 1(c) of rule XLVIII of the Rules of the House
of Representatives is amended to read as follows:
‘‘(c) No Member of the House other than the major-
ity leader and the minority leader may serve on the select
committee during more than four Congresses in any pe-
riod of six successive Congresses (disregarding for this
purpose any service performed as a member of such com-
mittee for less than a full session in any Congress), except
that the incumbent chairman or ranking minority member
having served on the select committee for four Congresses
and having served as chairman or ranking minority mem-
ber for not more than one Congress shall be eligible for
reappointment to the select committee as chairman or
ranking minority member for one additional Congress.’’.
SEC. 110. REFORM OF OVERSIGHT PROCESS.
(a) COMMITTEE OVERSIGHT AGENDA.—Clause 2 of
Rule X of the Rules of the House of Representatives is
amended by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(d)(1) Not later than March 1 of the first session
of a Congress, each standing committee of the House shall
adopt an oversight agenda for that Congress addressing
the matters in paragraph (b)(1) of this Clause, and that
agenda shall be submitted to the Committee on House Ad-
ministration. Each committee may request the assistance
of the General Accounting Office and the Congressional
Research Service of the Library of Congress in developing
its oversight agenda and shall, to the maximum extent fea-
sible—
‘‘(A) give priority consideration to including in
its plans the review of those laws, programs, or
agencies operating under permanent budget author-
ity or permanent statutory authority;
‘‘(B) consult with other committees of the
House which have jurisdiction over the same or re-
lated laws, programs, or agencies within its jurisdic-
tion with the objective of ensuring that there is max-
imum coordination between such committees in the
conduct of such reviews; and such plans shall include
an explanation of what steps have been and will be
taken to assure such coordination and cooperation;
and
‘‘(C) ensure that all significant laws, programs,
or agencies within its jurisdiction are subject to re-
view at least once every 10 years.
‘‘(2) Each standing committee shall transmit its over-
sight agenda to the Committee on House Administration
for appropriate consideration in conjunction with its com-
mittee expense resolution pursuant to clause 5 of rule XI.
‘‘(3) Not later than March 31 in the first session of
a Congress the Committee on House Administration, in
consultation with the Committee on Government Oper-
ations, shall publish and report to the House the oversight
agenda submitted by each committee together with any
recommendations which it may make to assure the most
effective coordination of such plans and otherwise achieve
the objective of this Clause.
‘‘(e) Each standing committee of the House shall hold
hearings during each Congress for the purpose of review-
ing appropriate reports relating to the activities of execu-
tive agencies over which the committee has oversight re-
sponsibility filed during the preceding Congress, including
reports of the inspectors general, the General Accounting
Office, as well as agency audit reports.
‘‘(f) The Speaker, with approval of the House, may
appoint special ad hoc oversight committees for the pur-
pose of reviewing specific matters within the jurisdiction
of 2 or more standing committees.’’.
(b) COMMITTEE OVERSIGHT REPORT.—Clause 1(d)
of Rule XI of the Rules of the House of Representatives
is amended to read as follows:
‘‘(d)(1) Each committee shall submit to the House
not later than January 2 of each odd-numbered year, a
report on the activities of that committee under this Rule
and Rule X during the Congress ending on January 3 of
such year.
‘‘(2) Such report shall include separate sections sum-
marizing the legislative and oversight activities of that
committee during that Congress.
‘‘(3) The oversight section of such report shall in-
clude a summary of the oversight agenda submitted by
the committee pursuant to Clause 2(d) of Rule X, a sum-
mary of the actions taken and recommendations made
with respect to each such agenda, and a summary of any
additional oversight activities undertaken by that commit-
tee, and any recommendations made or actions taken
thereon.’’.
SEC. 111. STAFF TRAINING.
It is the sense of the House that the Committee on
House Administration should review the training and ori-
entation programs currently available for the personal,
committee, and administrative staff of the House, evaluate
their overall effectiveness and utility, and develop, admin-
ister, and coordinate a comprehensive training program
for House staff employees to enhance their subject exper-
tise, skills, and knowledge so they can better assist the
House of Representatives in the discharge of its respon-
sibilities.
SEC. 112. AVAILABILITY OF LEGISLATIVE INFORMATION.
It is the sense of the House that—
(1) the 3-day layover requirement for committee
reports on legislation and on conference reports may
not be waived unless the legislation and any accom-
panying committee report or conference report have
been available to each Member for at least 24 hours
prior to its consideration on the House floor;
(2) an amendment to a bill to be considered
under suspension of the rules should be printed and
available to each Member for at least 24 hours prior
to its consideration;
(3) committees and conference committees
should endeavor to file reports on word processing
computer disks to facilitate availability to Members;
(4) an internal cable system, a cable channel, or
party specific channels should be developed to pro-
vide Members with summaries of the pending legisla-
tion and should be available to Members in their of-
fices, committee hearing rooms, and in the cloak-
rooms;
(5) the full text of bills, amendments, reports,
Congressional Budget Office cost estimates, General
Accounting Office reports, Office of Technology As-
sessment reports, Congressional Research Service re-
ports and Issue Briefs, the Code of Federal Regula-
tions, the annotated Code of Federal Regulations,
the Congressional Record, and the Federal Register
should be made available to all Members and con-
gressional staff via computer no later than the be-
ginning of the 105th Congress; and
(6) appropriate legislative information referred
to under paragraph (5) should also be made avail-
able to the public and the Depository Libraries
through a low-cost computer connection.
SEC. 113. PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING OF CONGRESS.
It is the sense of the House of Representatives that
steps should be taken to improve the public’s understand-
ing of Congress and the legislative process by—
(1) enhancing floor debate on major national is-
sues and improving the deliberative process on the
floor of the House by, for example, implementing
Oxford Union-style debates and related innovations;
(2) endorsing the efforts of the United States
Capitol Preservation Commission to raise private
funds for the creation of a congressional education
center;
(3) creating a central information telephone line
to enable citizens to find out such information as the
daily floor schedule, committee schedules, bill status
information, issue summaries, newly released re-
ports, how to access on-line information, and visitor
information;
(4) encouraging civic education programs to
better inform students, teachers, and citizens in gen-
eral about the legislative process; and
(5) encouraging the media galleries to orient
new journalists to the galleries and the Capitol and
to set up parliamentary procedure orientations
through the Congressional Research Service or some
other entity.
SEC. 114. HOUSE-SENATE STAFF SALARY PARITY.
It is the sense of the House that the Committee on
House Administration and the Committee on Appropria-
tions of the House of Representatives, in consultation with
the Committee on Rules and Administration and the Com-
mittee on Appropriations of the Senate, should conduct
a study of the salary ranges of House and Senate per-
sonal, committee, and administrative staff with a view to-
ward achieving bicameral salary parity for House and Sen-
ate staff performing analogous functions.
SEC. 115. EXPANSION OF UNAUTHORIZED APPROPRIA-
TIONS POINTS OF ORDER.
Clause 2(a) of rule XXI of the Rules of the House
of Representatives is amended by adding at the end the
following new sentence: ‘‘It shall not be in order to con-
sider any provision of a general appropriation bill (except
a conference report) that would exceed any applicable au-
thorization level as set forth in any authorization measure
as passed by the House.’’.
SEC. 116. MOTION TO RECOMMIT.
(a) AFFIRMATION OF THE MOTION TO RECOMMIT.—
The second sentence of clause 4(b) of rule XI of the Rules
of the House of Representatives is amended by inserting
‘‘nor shall it report any rule or order which would prevent
the motion to recommit from being made as provided in
clause 4 of rule XVI, including a motion to recommit with
amendatory instructions (except in the case of a Senate
measure for which the language of a House-passed meas-
ure has been proposed to be substituted) if offered by the
minority leader (or a designee);’’ after ‘‘present;’’.
(b) POSTPONEMENT OF CONSIDERATION.—Rule I of
the Rules of the House of Representatives is amended by
adding at the end thereof the following new clause:
‘‘3. The Speaker may postpone for not to exceed 2
hours the consideration of any motion to recommit.’’.
SEC. 117. DEBATE IN THE HOUSE.
Strike the second sentence of clause 1 of rule XIV
of the Rules of the House of Representatives and insert
the following: ‘‘Debate may include references to actions
taken by the Senate or by the committees thereof which
are a matter of public record, references to the pendency
or sponsorship in the Senate of bills, resolutions, and
amendments, descriptions relating to Senate action or in-
action concerning a measure or matter, descriptions relat-
ing to the rules of the Senate and the effect of such rules
on actions concerning measures or matters in the Senate,
and quotations from Senate proceedings.’’.
SEC. 118. COMMITTEE REPORTS.
(a) ROLLCALL VOTES.—Clause 2(l)(2)(B) of rule XI
of the Rules of the House of Representatives is amended
to read as follows:
‘‘(B) With respect to each rollcall vote on a motion
to report any bill, resolution or matter of a public char-
acter, the total number of votes cast for and against re-
porting, and the names of those members voting for and
against, shall be included in the committee report on the
measure or matter.’’.
(b) VOICE VOTES.—Clause 2(l)(2) of rule XI of the
Rules of the House of Representatives is amended by add-
ing at the end the following:
‘‘(C) With respect to each nonrecord vote on a motion
to report any measure or matter of a public character,
the names of those members of the committee actually
present at the time the measure or matter is ordered re-
ported shall be included in the committee report.’’.
SEC. 119. PUBLICATION OF COMMITTEE ATTENDANCE AND
VOTING RECORDS.
Clause 2(e)(1) of rule XI of the Rules of the House
of Representatives is amended—
(1) in the first sentence by inserting ‘‘or sub-
committee’’ after ‘‘committee’’ the second place it
appears; and
(2) by inserting at the end the following new
sentence: ‘‘The chairman of each committee shall
publish, in the Congressional Record, the committee
and subcommittee attendance and voting records (by