A resolution create a special committee to investigate campaign expenditures.

Summary

Creates a special committee of five members to be appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives from March 1, 1973, through June 6, 1973, to investigate and report to the House not later than June 15, 1973, with respect to the following matters: (1) the extent and nature of expenditures made by all candidates for the House of Representatives in connection with their campaign for nomination and election to such office; (2) the amount subscribed, contributed, or expended, and the value of services rendered, and facilities made available (including personal services, use of advertising space, radio and television time, communications media, office space, moving picture films, and automobile and any other transportation facilities) by any individual, individuals, or group of individuals, committee, partnership, corporation, or labor union, to or on behalf of each such candidate in connection with any such campaign or for the purpose of influencing the votes cast or to be cast at any convention or election held in 1972 and during the period from March 1, 1973, through June 6, 1973, to which a candidate for the House of Representatives is to be nominated or elected; (3) the use of any other means or influence (including the promise, or use of patronage) for the purpose of aiding or influencing the nomination or election of any such candidate; (4) the amounts, if any, raised, contributed, expended by any individual, individuals, or group of individuals, committee, partnership, corporation, or labor union, including any political committee thereof, in connection with any such election, and the amounts received by any political committee from any corporation, labor union, individual, individuals, or group of individuals, committee, or partnership; (5) the violations, if any, of specified statutes of the United States; and (6) such other matters relating to the election of Members of the House of Representatives in 1972 and during the period from March 1, 1973, through June 6, 1973, and the campaigns of candidates in connection therewith, as the committee deems to be of public interest, and which, in its opinion, will aid the House of Representatives in enacting remedial legislation, or in deciding contests that may be instituted involving the right to a seat in the House of Representatives. Directs the committee to file interim reports whenever in the judgment of the majority of the committee, or of the subcommittee conducting portions of said investigation, the public interest will be best served by filing interim reports, and in no event shall the final report of said committee be filed later than June 15, 1973.

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 7 March 1973

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