A resolution relating to intern programs and the clerk hire allowance.
Latest action. Measure passed House, amended, roll call #367 (214-120).
(Reported to House from the Committee on House Administration with amendment, H. Rept. 96-352) Entitles each Member of Congress to employ 18 permanent clerks under the clerk hire allowance. Exempts from such limitation four employees designated by the Member to the Clerk of the House as falling into one of the following categories: part-time employees, employees compensated by more than one employing authority of the House, interns, employees on leave without pay, and temporary employees. Stipulates that employees designated as temporary employees or interns shall not be eligible to participate in the health and life insurance program or the Civil Service Retirement Act. Revises salary expenditures for permanent employees to one-tenth per month of the annual clerk hire allowance, not to exceed one-fourth of such allowance in one quarterly period. Restricts part-time employees to 15 working days per month, interns to 120 days per year, and temporary employees to three months per year, and limits rates of compensation for such employees. Directs the Committee on House Administration to adopt such rules and regulations as necessary to carry out the provisions of this resolution. Makes this resolution effective the first day of the first month beginning after the month in which it is agreed to.
Written by analysts at the Congressional Research Service and published on Congress.gov, not by Civibrief. Summarized at the "Reported to House with amendment(s)" stage on July 19, 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 July 20, 1979: Measure passed House, amended, roll call #367 (214-120).
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?
JOHN BRADEMAS (D-IN) introduced it on July 16, 1979. No cosponsors are recorded.
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 July 16, 1979, 17223 days ago. The most recent recorded action was 17219 days ago, on July 20, 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
- HousePassed
- SenateAwaiting Senate vote
- PresidentAwaits both chambers