A resolution amending the Rules of the House of Representatives with respect to use of committee funds for travel.

Summary

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; (2) the date of the general election when the Member is not re-elected; or (3) 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.

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 28 April 1981

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