Abercrombie (HI)

#19

Withdrawn. (Placeholder) Extends the current one-year prohibition on lobbying by executive branch personnel to three years.

Andrews (NJ)/Chabot (OH)

#12

Extends from one to five years the period during which former Members of Congress may not engage in certain lobbying activities.

Baird (WA)

#10

Requires that legislation and conference reports be available to Members and the public on the Internet for 72 hours before consideration by the House. 

Baird (WA)/Slaughter (NY)

#16

Prohibits securities trading based on nonpublic information relating to pending or prospective legislative action, requires additional reporting by Members and employees of Congress of securities transactions, and requires registration and reporting by political intelligence firms.

Bean (IL)

#18

Requires the Clerk of the House to maintain, on her publicly accessible Internet site, comprehensive voting records organized by Member which lists a description of each roll call vote, the result, the Member’s vote, and a CBO cost estimate if available.  The amendment would also require every Member to provide a link from their official website to their respective voting record on the Clerk’s website.

Berry (AR)

#63

Extends the forfeiture of government pension provision beyond just Members of Congress convicted of corruption while in office to include congressional staff and executive branch political appointees.

Blumenauer (OR)

#64

Replaces the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct in the House of Representatives with an Independent Ethics Commission (Commission) consisting of eleven former Members of Congress (5 selected by the Speaker, 5 selected by the Minority Leader and 1 selected by the other 10 members of the Commission). The Commission members cannot be lobbyists and cannot have served in Congress for at least two years. The Commission will be independently staffed with an executive director, appointed for a seven-year term in a manner similar to the director of the CBO.  The director will ensure that staff members fulfill all of the functions currently performed by the staff of the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct. An office of Advice and Education will be established within the Commission to provide confidential information to Member offices. Any recommendations of the Commission that go beyond advisory opinions, letters of reproval, and admonishment would go to the full House for a vote.

Bordallo (GU)/Jones (NC)

#22

Strengthens third-party lobbying disclosure requirements contained in the Lobbying Disclosure Act by amending Section 5(b) to require that the identity of, the contact information for, and the amounts paid by that third party for the registrant’s services be disclosed on the registrant’s quarterly financial disclosure reports filed with the Clerk of the House and the Secretary of the Senate.

Brown (OH)

#5

Provides that no House floor vote on major legislation – legislation changing outlays or revenues by $100 million or more – may last more than 30 minutes or may conclude after 10:00 p.m.  Requires that after the text of the legislation, the text of any manager's amendment, and the text of any rule providing for consideration of the legislation are published in the Congressional Record, that at least 7 days must pass before a House floor vote on major legislation.  Allows a 2/3 supermajority of the House to waive these restrictions on grounds of national security, homeland security, or other emergency.

Cardin (MD)

#61

Would permit non-members to file ethics complaints against House members with the Ethics Committee.  Non-member complaints must meet the standards set forth in the bipartisan recommendations of the House Ethics Reform Task Force of 1997 (Livingston-Cardin), which was the last bipartisan overhaul of House ethics rules.

Castle (DE)

#34

Requires that all registered lobbyists complete a mandatory 8-hours of ethics training each Congress.  Ethics training would include the code of conduct and disclosure requirements applicable to Members, officers, and employees of the House, including rules relating to acceptance of gifts (including travel and meals), and financial disclosure requirements under the Ethics in Government Act of 1978.  Any registered lobbyist failing to complete ethics training each Congress would be subject to penalties.

Castle (DE)

#35

Creates an independent body to investigate claims of unethical or illegal actions by Members or their staff.  Only former Members and retired Federal judges may serve on this Commission.  The Speaker and Minority Leader must agree on the chair of the Commission, and no Commissioner may have lobbied in the five years prior to his/her term. Duties include: (1) to investigate, with subpoena power, any alleged violation of any law or regulation by a Member, Delegate, officer or staff of the House of Representatives; (2) to report findings and recommend disciplinary action to the Committee on Standards; & (3) to report any evidence of violation to the appropriate State or Federal authorities.

Castle (DE)

#36

Amends Section 502 to require mandatory annual ethics training for each Member, Delegate, and Resident Commissioner.  Ethics training would include knowledge of the Code of Official Conduct, related House rules, and applicable provisions of law.  Names of those who fail to complete the training would be printed in the Congressional Record. 

Castle (DE)

#37

Changes the current ban against departing Members and staff accepting jobs related to their legislative work from one-year to one-year or the remainder of the Congress, whichever is longer.  Extends the requirement to all personal/committee staff, not just senior staff and Members.

Castle (DE)

#38

Requires that lobbyists be held liable for offering gifts that violate the gift ban.  A lobbyist who knowingly offers a gift to a U.S. Representative, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, or their employee that is in violation of the gift ban, would be subject to a civil fine of up to $50,000.

Castle (DE)

#39

Requires full payment (market value) and disclosure of charter flights on which a Member, officer, or employee flies.  Also requires a report that includes the date and destination of the flight and that identifies the other passengers on the flight to be filed with the Clerk of the House or the Secretary of the Senate for public disclosure within 10 days after the flight. 

Chabot (OH)

#13

Reauthorizes the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) from FY 2007 through 2011.  The current authorization will expire in 2006.  OGE is a small, executive branch agency responsible for overseeing Federal executive branch ethics programs, most notably the executive branch financial disclosure process.

Davis (VA)/Waxman (CA)

#50

The “Executive Branch Reform Act of 2006" amendment would: (1) require all political appointees and senior officials in Federal agencies and the White House to report the contacts they have with private parties seeking to influence official government action; (2) deem lawyers, lobbyists and executives appointed to high-level government positions to have a prohibited conflict of interest if they take official actions affecting their former clients or employers within two years of entering government; (3) restrict activities of procurement officials as they pass between the government and private sectors; (4) provide whistleblower protections for national security personnel; (5) eliminate the use of unregulated “pseudo-classifications” such as “sensitive but unclassified” or “for official use only;” and (6) require the Federal government to disclose its role in funding or disseminating advertising and communications and prohibits the expenditure of funds on unauthorized propaganda.

Diaz-Balart, Lincoln (FL)

#52

Increases reporting requirements on representatives of governments designated as State Sponsors of Terrorism.

Doggett (TX)

#44

Redefines client under the Lobbyist Disclosure Act so that members of coalitions and associations would have to report their members on their lobbyist disclosure form.  The language includes an exception for tax-exempt organizations with substantial activities beyond single-issue lobbying.  This means that the bill will not require disclosure, for example, of the members of the NRA, the National Association of Manufacturers, or the Sierra Club. 

Fitzpatrick (PA)

#54

Makes it out of order to consider a conference report until such report and its accompanying joint explanatory statement have been made available for three days on the Internet to the general public.

Fitzpatrick (PA)

#55

Makes it out of order to consider specified appropriations measures if: (1) their accompanying reports or managers' joint explanatory statements contain any earmarks; or (2) a measure contains any earmark but does not name the requesting Member and the pertinent congressional district.

Fitzpatrick (PA)

#56

Requires lobbyists to report the details of fundraising events that they host or co-host for members, such as the date, location and amount raised by the event.

Fitzpatrick (PA)

#57

Requires lobbyists to disclose when they serve as a treasurer for a political committee or the committee of a candidate for election to a Federal office.

Fitzpatrick (PA)

#58

Extends from one to two years the ban on lobbying contacts by former very senior executive personnel, former Members of Congress, and officers and employees of the legislative branch with any officer or employee of the entity in which such person served before his or her tenure terminated.

Fitzpatrick (PA)

#59

Sets forth: (1) prohibitions on the use of Federal funds for political advocacy; (2) reporting disclosure requirements for grantees of such funds; (3) reporting requirements of such grantors; and (4) public disclosure requirements regarding the grants.

Flake (AZ)

#17

Clarifies the application of criminal bribery and illegal gratuities statutes with regard to earmarks.  Specificially, it prohibits a person from directly or indirectly, corruptly giving, offering, or promising anything of value to any public official with the intent to influence any official act relating to an earmark.  Also prohibits a public official from corruptly demanding, seeking, receiving, accepting, or agreeing to receive or accept anything of value in return for influence in the performance of an offical act relating to an earmark.

Garrett (NJ)

#1

Broadens earmarking reform to include bills outside the domain of the House Committee on Appropriations.  Earmarks have been included in recent bills such as the Surface Transportation Extension Act and the Water Resources Development Act

Garrett (NJ)

#2

Adds “joint resolution” to the definition of earmarks in section 501(d)(1).

Garrett (NJ)

#4

Bars convicted felons from registering as lobbyists.

Garrett (NJ)

#3

Strikes Government Sponsored Enterprises (GSEs) from section 501(d)(2).

Gerlach (PA)

#51

Prohibits a registered lobbyist from knowingly making a gift to a Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of Congress, with some exceptions. Imposes a civil fine of $50,000 for violation of this provision, depending on the extent and gravity of the violation. Amends the Rules of the House of Representatives to prohibit a Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner from accepting a gift from a registered lobbyist.

Gingrey (GA)

#14

Extends the prohibition on converting campaign dollars for personal use currently applicable to campaign committees to Leadership PACs.  Leadership PAC is defined as a political committee which is directly or indirectly established, maintained, or controlled by a candidate for Federal office or an individual holding Federal office.

Gohmert (TX)

#29

Strikes the current section 106 and inserts an ascending civil penalty structure for each subsequent offense.  For example, for a second offense the offender could be subject to a fine of not more than $250,000.  Also adds “corruptly and with intent to evade the law” to the intent element of the civil penalty.

Green (TX)

#32

Requires a lobbyist for a State government that is not employed by the State to report the name of each legislative branch official he or she has made contact with on a quarterly basis.  The report shall also include the date of each contact and the specific issues discussed during each contact.

Hefley (CO)

#20

Strikes sections 101 and 502 and Title III.  Adds the following new titles--Title VI: Ethics Training; Title VII: Ethics Investigations; Title VII: Ethics Committee Reform; Title IX: Travel; Title X: Lobbyists; Title XI: Gift Rules; Title XII: Financial Disclosure.

Issa (CA)

#40

Broadens the definition of who would not be eligible to participate in the retirement system (Federal Employee's Retirement System or Civil Service Retirement System) if convicted of abusing the public trust to include: Members of Congress, Congressional employees, political appointees and other highly compensated Federal employees (paid the equivalent of senior Congressional staff, or 120 percent of the minimum pay for GS-15 of the General Schedule. 

Issa (CA)

#41

Broadens the definition of who would not be eligible to participate in the retirement system (Federal Employee's Retirement System or Civil Service Retirement System) if convicted of abusing the public trust to include all Federal employees.

Jackson-Lee (TX)

#53

Modifies the extent to which pensions can be withheld from the spouse and family.

Jackson-Lee (TX)

#74

(LATE) Strikes the generalized ban on private travel.

Jones (NC)

#60

Would require a leadership PAC to disclose to the FEC which Member or Members of Congress control it, and would require the FEC to post that information on the Internet.

King (IA)

#30

Changes the travel rules by requiring that privately-funded travel be approved in advance by the Committee on Standards.  Five days after the travel is finished, the cost must be fully disclosed on the Internet in a form that can be easily accessed and searched by the public.  Changes the due date of the Standards Committee report on new travel rules from December 15, 2006, to August 15, 2006.

King (IA)

#31

Requires that Members and staff to report exact asset/liability values on their financial disclosures, instead of vague ranges. Disclosures must be fully disclosed on the Internet in a form that can be easily accessed and searched by the public.  Applies to reports filed for calendar years beginning after the date of enactment.

Kirk (IL)/Cooper (TN)/Platts (PA)

#42

Based on H.R. 4535, the Congressional Integrity and Pension Forfiture Act, and identical to H.R. 4011, which passed the House in the 104th Congress by a vote of 391 to 32, with 1 Member voting present, the amendment addresses Members of Congress forfeiting their congressional pension should they be convicted of certain felonies.  The amendment expands the number of such felonies from 3 to 22.

Leach (IA)

#45

Creates strong tools to help Federal and state governments enforce existing gambling prohibitions.  It is designed to cut the money flow from gamblers to Internet gambling sites by enhancing criminal penalties for settling Internet wagers with financial instruments such as credit cards, checks, or fund transfers.  Also requires payment systems to establish procedures for blocking these transactions. 

Leach (IA)

#46

Establishes a small donor matching fund for House candidates.

Lungren (CA)/Miller (CA)

#6

Amends section 301 to allow Members to participate in privately funded travel paid for by a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization under several conditions.  The travel funding cannot originate, in whole or in part, from a registered lobbyist, and lobbyists would be prohibited from traveling with Members or employees on the trip.  The funding source must be disclosed to the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct.  The Clerk of the House would post the itinerary of the trip on a public Internet site both before and after the travel occurred.  Finally, it requires the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct to set forth a proposal on how to deal with travel in future Congresses.

McCaul (TX)

#72

Requires a one-time retroactive reporting requirement for all 527s registered with the IRS between 3/27/02 and the enactment of H.R. 4975 to disclose to the FEC all receipts and sources of those receipts during that time range upon registering with the FEC.  The purpose of the amendment is national security – to find out if some 527s were receiving donations from foreign sources that may have had ties to terrorist organizations, including domestic sources that may have received funds from terrorist organizations and donated those funds to a 527.

McHenry (NC)

#21

Revokes the security clearances of officers and employees charged with certain offenses: impeachment for any offense or if the individual is charged with any crime punishable by imprisonment for more than one year.  The clearance is to be restored immediately if prosecution ends in something other than conviction, which is not vitiated by appeal or otherwise.

Meehan (MA)/Emanuel (IL)

#69

Requires registered lobbyists to disclose lobbying contacts with Members of Congress and senior executive branch officials.

Meehan (MA)/Emanuel (IL)

#70

Doubles the current one-year waiting period for Members and senior staff lobbying Congress to two years.

Murphy (PA)

#23

Seeks to prohibit the financial contributions of foreign nationals to 527 organizations.

Murphy (PA)

#24

Seeks to prevent the practice of "call spoofing," where a person uses technology to effectively steal the caller ID of another person and then makes anonymous calls to third parties.

Poe (TX)

#48

Prohibits the acceptance of all gifts from registered lobbyists, not just gifts of travel.

Price (GA)

#15

Brings greater accountability and transparency to the earmarking process by explicitly outlining how earmarks will be identified in a general appropriation bill.

Rogers (MI)

#62

Treats Indian tribes as all other organizations who participate in Federal elections by requiring them to create Political Action Committees and report their activities to the Federal Elections Commission.

Schmidt (OH)

#8

Requires the Attorney General to make available on the Internet the filings of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).

Schmidt (OH)

#9

Requires each registration of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) to be filed electronically, and requires the Attorney General to maintain, and make available to the public over the Internet, a searchable database containing the registration documents.

Shadegg (AZ)

#33

Requires Indian tribes that operate class III "casino" gambling enterprises to annually disclose their lobbying and public relations expenses to their own members.  Does not require disclosure to any Federal agency or department and would not apply to advertising expenses.

Shays (CT)

#67

Requires disclosure of funds spent by professional lobbying firms and lobbying organizations on grassroots campaigns to stimulate lobbying of Congress by the public, including multimillion dollar lobbying campaigns.

Shays (CT)/Meehan (MA)

#66

Requires increased disclosure of contacts between Members of Congress or executive branch officials and lobbyists.

Shays (CT)/Meehan (MA)

#71

Reinstates the ban on gifts, keeping intact the current exceptions, except for an exception that allows for lobbyists to pay for parties for members at National Party Conventions.

Shays (CT)/Meehan (MA)/Fitzpatrick (PA)

#68

Requires Members of Congress to pay charter costs for flights made available from corporations and others for Members' travel, rather than the cost of a first class fare.

Shays (CT)/Meehan (MA)/Gerlach (PA)/Platts (PA)/Wilson (NM)/Matheson (UT)

#65

Establishes an Office of Public Integrity (OPI) to assist the House Ethics Committee.  OPI would be a nonpartisan office, similar to the Office of Compliance, comprised of professional staff who would investigate non-frivolous complaints of potential ethics violations and present its findings to the Ethics Committee for adjudication. OPI would also provide both formal and informal guidance to Members and their staff on the permissibility of conduct under House and Senate rules.  Finally, OPI would provide informal guidance to registered lobbyists about reporting requirements and conduct random audits of reports.

Sherman (CA)

#73

(REVISED) (LATE)  Directs the Inspector General of the House to audit Members' personal financial statements to ensure compliance with the Ethics in Government Act of 1978.  Inspector General may then refer potential violations to the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct.  Requires Members to include all residence transactions on their disclosure forms.

Slaughter (NY)

#49

Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute. Bans gifts, including meals, tickets, entertainment and travel, from lobbyists and non-governmental organizations that retain or employ lobbyists.  Requires Members to pay full charter costs on corporate jets for official travel and to make disclosures.  Adds criminal offense for taking or withholding official action, or threatening to do so, for private employment decisions.  Increases revolving door limitation to 2 years.  Prohibits consideration of conference reports not available for at least 24 hours. Requires disclosure of lobbyists' campaign contributions, fundraisers, payments for events to honor Members, and contacts with Members. Increases civil and criminal penalties for violations. Expands reporting to include paid grassroots lobbying activities directed at the general public (rather than at an organization's members), while protecting the privacy of unpaid citizen lobbyists.

Snyder (AR)

#43

Prohibts the House from offering registered lobbyists access to any service offered exclusively for Members, former Members, staff, and officers.  It would have the effect of making former Members who have become lobbyists equal to the citizens who visit their Member of Congress.

Sodrel (IN)/McGovern (MA)/Davis (KY)

#47

Amends Sec. 502 to add a voluntary ethics training program for Members within 100 days of being sworn into Congress.  The status of the Members completing and not completing the course within the time frame will be posted on the website for the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct and in the Congressional Record.

Van Hollen (MD)

#28

Requires that a registered lobbyist must disclose the “solicitation and transmission” of a campaign contribution on behalf of a candidate.  Also requires disclosure by a registered lobbyist if he or she is a treasurer of a campaign or a chairman of a political committee.

Waters (CA)

#25

Makes an exception to the Section 301 travel ban for churches, educational institutions, nonprofit organizations under Section 501(c) of the IRS Code, low and moderate income housing and health organizations, and civil rights organizations.

Waters (CA)

#26

Makes an exception to the Section 301 travel ban for churches and educational institutions.

Waters (CA)

#27

Adds requirement that lobbyists disclose contacts with covered legislative branch officials, including the names and dates on which contacts are made.

Wilson (SC)

#11

Raises the contribution limit made to or by PACs from $5,000 to $7,500 per year and increases limit on PAC contributions to national party committees from $15,000 to $25,000.  Also adjusts all contribution limits for inflation and prohibits foreign nationals from making contributions to 527 organizations.

Wolf (VA)

#7

(REVISED)  Prohibits former ambassadors and CIA station chiefs from acting as an agent of the foreign nation where they were stationed for five years after their service as ambassador or station chief is completed.