Strengthen House Floor Integrity Resolution

Bill: 114-hres-93
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Kuster, Ann M. [D-NH-2]
Introduced: 2015-02-05
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Congressional officers and employees

Government ethics and transparency, public corruption

House of Representatives

Legislative rules and procedure

Members of Congress

Public participation and lobbying
Latest action: action_date: 2015-02-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Rules.

Summaries:
action_date: 2015-02-05
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>Amends Rule IV (The Hall of the House) of the Rules of the House of Representatives with respect to the prohibition against admission to the Hall of the House, and rooms leading to it, of former House officials with business before Congress.</p> <p>Prohibits any regulations promulgated by the Speaker under the Rule from exempting from the prohibition even for ceremonial or educational functions any former Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, House Parliamentarian, elected House officer, or minority employee nominated as an elected House officer if the individual:</p> <ul> <li>is a registered lobbyist or agent of a foreign principal;</li> <li>has any direct personal or pecuniary interest in any legislative measure pending before the House or reported by a committee; or</li> <li>is in the employ of, or represents any part or organization for, the purpose of influencing, directly or indirectly, the passage, defeat, or amendment of a legislative proposal. </li></ul>

tv_txt: IV 114th CONGRESS 1st Session H. RES. 93 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES February 5, 2015 Ms. Kuster (for herself, Mrs. Bustos , Mr. Cohen , Mr. Grijalva , Mr. Murphy of Florida , Mr. Ruiz , Mr. Takano , and Mr. Walz ) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Rules RESOLUTION Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to prohibit the regulations promulgated by the Speaker to carry out the rule prohibiting admission to the Hall of the House by former House officials with business before Congress from providing an exemption for admission to the Hall for ceremonial or educational functions.

1. Short title This resolution may be cited as the Strengthen House Floor Integrity Resolution . 2. Prohibiting former House officials with business before Congress from admission to Hall of the House for ceremonial or educational functions Clause 4(b) of rule IV of the Rules of the House of Representatives is amended to read as follows: (b) The Speaker may promulgate regulations to carry out this rule, except that such regulations may not exempt ceremonial or educational functions from the restrictions of this clause. .