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(3) 
AVAILABILITY.—Each 
Committee 
shall 
make reasonable efforts to make a comparative print 
required by paragraph (1) available to the members 
of the Committee and to the public as early as prac-
ticable, and before a covered markup, if practical. 
(h) QUESTIONS FOR THE RECORD.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in para-
graph (2), for each covered hearing or covered mark-
up, a Committee shall make available on the website 
of the Committee any response to questions for the 
record of the covered hearing or covered markup 
that the Committee receives from a testifying wit-
ness. 
(2) PROTECTION OF CERTAIN INFORMATION.— 
Upon agreement by the Chairman and Ranking Mi-
nority Member of a Committee, a response described 
in paragraph (1) may be withheld from the website 
of the Committee if it includes individual casework 
or constituent information or information that the 
Chairman and Ranking Minority Member determine 
is confidential information. 
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SEC. 642. INCREASED TRANSPARENCY OF RECORDED 
VOTES. 
(a) DEFINITION.—In this section, the term ‘‘Member 
of Congress’’ means a member of the House of Represent-
atives and a member of the Senate. 
(b) ADDITIONAL DUTIES OF THE CLERK OF THE 
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND THE SECRETARY OF 
THE SENATE.—The Clerk of the House of Representatives 
and the Secretary of the Senate shall make available on 
the website of the Office of the Clerk or of the Secretary, 
respectively, a record of the recorded votes of each Mem-
ber of Congress who is a member of their House of Con-
gress, organized by the name of the Member of Congress, 
in a structured data format, which shall include the roll, 
date, issue, question, result, and title or description of the 
vote. 
(c) WEB LINK.—Each Member of Congress shall pro-
vide a link on the website of the Member of Congress to 
the record of recorded votes of the Member of Congress 
made available by the Clerk of the House of Representa-
tives or the Secretary of the Senate, as applicable. 
(d) EFFECTIVE DATE.—This section shall apply to 
recorded votes by Members of Congress occurring after 
the date of enactment of this Act. 
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SEC. 643. INCREASED TRANSPARENCY OF APPROPRIA-
TIONS BILLS. 
(a) INCLUSION.—The Clerk of the House of Rep-
resentatives and the Secretary of the Senate shall ensure 
that each report accompanying any appropriations bill re-
ported by the Committees on Appropriations of the House 
of Representatives or the Committee on Appropriations of 
the Senate, respectively, includes a formatted spreadsheet 
showing the amounts made available by the bill, in a tab-
ular, digital format that shows separate entries for each 
fiscal year covered by the bill. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—Subsection (a) shall apply 
with respect to any appropriations bill making funds avail-
able for fiscal year 2019 or any fiscal year thereafter. 
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