A resolution amending the Rules of the House of Representatives with respect to use of committee funds for travel.
Latest action. Referred to House Committee on Rules.
Amends rule XI of the Rules of the House of Representatives to require any Member or employee of a House committee to include, with the required itemized report with respect to travel outside the United States or its territories or possessions, an analysis of the extent to which the legislative objectives of such travel were realized. Prohibits a committee from reimbursing a committee Member or employee for travel expenses unless: (1) the Member or employee files a written request with the committee chairman before the travel is undertaken, or, in the case of an emergency, an oral request to convene a meeting of the committee to authorize the travel; (2) such request sets forth the itinerary, legislative objectives, and projected cost of such travel; and (3) the committee by rollcall vote, authorizes the travel. Prohibits local currencies owned by the United States from being made available for use outside the United States for defraying the expenses of a committee Member after: (1) the date of the primary in which the Member is a candidate for election to a Federal office (other than the Presidency) but has not been designated or elected as the nominee of a party in the general election; or (2) the earliest of the following: (a) announcement of the Member's intention not to be a candidate; (b) the primary for candidates for Representative in the Member's district; or (c) the adjournment sine die of the second regular session of the Congress.
Written by analysts at the Congressional Research Service and published on Congress.gov, not by Civibrief. Summarized at the "Introduced in House" stage on May 24, 1979. It describes the bill, it is not the legal text.
Where is it in the process, and what happens next?
A simple resolution is the business of a single chamber. The House can adopt it on its own, and it is never sent to the other chamber or to the President.
The record's latest action, on May 24, 1979: Referred to House Committee on Rules.
- A vote of the House
What is a simple resolution, exactly?
A simple resolution concerns one chamber only, such as its own rules or an expression of its opinion. The other chamber and the President play no part, and it does not carry the force of law.
Has anyone actually voted on it?
No. No roll call in this Congress cites this measure. That is the ordinary outcome: most measures never reach a recorded floor vote, and a committee ends most of them simply by not acting.
A vote is not the only thing that happens to a measure. Hearings, markups, and referrals are all recorded actions, and none of them is a vote of the full chamber.
Who is behind it?
TOM CORCORAN (R-IL) introduced it on May 24, 1979, and 17 members have since signed on as cosponsors.
They come from both major parties: 3 Democrats, 13 Republicans, 1 independent.
Cosponsoring is a formal signature on the text. It is not a commitment to vote for the measure, it does not bind anyone's party, and a long list of cosponsors is a measure of attention rather than of prospects.
How long has it been in play?
It was introduced on May 24, 1979, 17276 days ago. The most recent recorded action was 17276 days ago, on May 24, 1979.
Measures do not carry over. Anything the 96th Congress has not finished by January 3, 1981 dies when the term ends, and has to be introduced again from the start in the next Congress.
That deadline applies to this measure too, even though it was never headed for the President's desk.
Every answer above is assembled from this measure's own record on Congress.gov and from published counts of what Congress has passed before. Civibrief does not predict outcomes and takes no position on any measure.
Vote history
- HouseIn committee, no floor vote yet
- SenateAwaits House passage
- PresidentAwaits both chambers