Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to prohibit the Committee on Ethics from waiving any requirement that Members, officers, and employees of the House include information on reimbursements for travel in the financial disclosure reports such individuals are required to file under the Ethics in Government Act of 1978.

Bill: 113-hres-659
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Loebsack, David [D-IA-2]
Introduced: 2014-07-08
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Congressional officers and employees

Government ethics and transparency, public corruption

Government information and archives

House Committee on Ethics

House of Representatives

Legislative rules and procedure

Members of Congress

Transportation costs

Travel and tourism
Latest action: action_date: 2014-07-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Rules.

Summaries:
action_date: 2014-07-08
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>Amends Rule XXV (Limitations on Outside Earned Income and Acceptance of Gifts) of the Rules of the House of Representatives to prohibit the Committee on Ethics from using its authority under the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 to waive any requirement that Members, officers, and employees of the House include information on reimbursements for travel in the financial disclosure reports these individuals are required to file under the Act.</p>

tv_txt: IV 113th CONGRESS 2d Session H. RES. 659 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES July 8, 2014 Mr. Loebsack (for himself, Mr. Fitzpatrick , Mr. Braley of Iowa , Mr. Enyart , Mr. Walz , Mrs. Bustos , Mr. Cohen , Mr. Quigley , Mr. Cooper , Mr. McDermott , Mr. Ruiz , Mr. Barrow of Georgia , Mr. Nolan , Ms. Tsongas , Ms. Shea-Porter , and Mr. Foster ) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Rules RESOLUTION Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to prohibit the Committee on Ethics from waiving any requirement that Members, officers, and employees of the House include information on reimbursements for travel in the financial disclosure reports such individuals are required to file under the Ethics in Government Act of 1978.

1. Prohibiting waiver of requirement to include travel information in financial disclosure reports of Members, officers, and employees of the House Clause 5 of rule XXV of the Rules of the House of Representatives is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph: (j) The Committee on Ethics may not use its authority under this clause or section 111(2) of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 ( 5 U.S.C. App. 112(2) ) to waive any requirement under title I of such Act that Members, Delegates, Resident Commissioners, officers, or employees include information on reimbursements for travel (as described in section 102(a)(2)(B) of such Act) in the reports such individuals are required to file under title I of such Act. .