Jenkins Committee Transparency by John Wonderlich

Jenkins Committee Transparency

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111TH CONGRESS 1ST SESSION

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Amending the rules of the House of Representatives to provide for transparency in the committee amendment process.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Ms. JENKINS submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on lllllllllllllll

RESOLUTION Amending the rules of the House of Representatives to provide for transparency in the committee amendment process. 1

Resolved, That—

(a) Clause 2(e) of rule XI of the Rules of the House

3 of Representatives is amended by adding the following 4 subparagraph: 5

‘‘(5)(A) Not later than 24 hours after com-

mencing a meeting to consider a measure or

matter, the chair of such committee shall cause

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the text of such measure or matter to be made

publicly available in an electronic form.

‘‘(B) Not later than 24 hours after the

adoption of any amendment to a measure or

matter considered by a committee, the chair of

such committee shall cause the text of each

such amendment to be made publicly available

in an electronic form.’’.

(b) Clause 3(a)(1) of rule XIII is amended by striking

10 ‘‘and’’ at the end of subdivision (A), striking the period 11 and inserting a semicolon at the end of subdivision (B), 12 and adding the following subdivision: 13

‘‘(C) shall not include recommended

amendments made to such measure or

matter after it was ordered reported except

technical and conforming changes author-

ized by the committee to correct section

numbers,

grammar, spelling, or to maintain mathe-

matical consistency.’’.

cross-references,

punctuation,