Title: Go to Washington, Go to Work Act
Policy area: Congress

Summary:
Go to Washington, Go to Work Act
This bill prohibits Members of Congress and congressional candidates from soliciting campaign funds while the chamber of Congress in which the Member serves, or in which the candidate seeks to serve, is in session.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6433 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6433

    To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit 
   Congressional candidates and Members of Congress from soliciting 
 campaign funds on any day on which the House of Congress in which the 
      candidate seeks election or the Member serves is in session.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 18, 2018

  Mr. Nolan (for himself and Mr. Gallagher) introduced the following 
   bill; which was referred to the Committee on House Administration

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit 
   Congressional candidates and Members of Congress from soliciting 
 campaign funds on any day on which the House of Congress in which the 
      candidate seeks election or the Member serves is in session.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Go to Washington, Go to Work Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITING CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATES AND MEMBERS OF CONGRESS 
              FROM SOLICITING CAMPAIGN FUNDS WHILE IN SESSION.

    (a) Prohibition.--Title III of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 
1971 (52 U.S.C. 30101 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the 
following new section:

``SEC. 325. PROHIBITING CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATES AND MEMBERS OF 
              CONGRESS FROM SOLICITING CAMPAIGN FUNDS WHILE IN SESSION.

    ``A candidate for election for the office of Senator or 
Representative in, or Delegate or Resident Commissioner to, the 
Congress or an individual holding such an office may not solicit funds 
in connection with an election for Federal office or an election for 
State or local office--
            ``(1) on any day on which the Senate is in session (other 
        than a day on which the Senate convenes solely in a pro forma 
        session), in the case of a candidate for election for, or an 
        individual holding, the office of Senator; or
            ``(2) on any day on which the House of Representatives is 
        in session (other than a day on which the House convenes solely 
        in a pro forma session), in the case of a candidate for 
        election for, or an individual holding, the office of 
        Representative in, or Delegate or Resident Commissioner to, the 
        Congress.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall 
apply with respect to elections occurring during 2019 or any succeeding 
year.
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