[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
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[H.R. 631 Introduced in House (IH)]
110th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 631
To prohibit Federal agencies from obligating funds for earmarks
included only in congressional reports, and for other purposes.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
January 23, 2007
Mr. Flake (for himself, Mr. Hensarling, Mr. Terry, Mr. Radanovich, Mr.
Campbell of California, Mr. Fortuno, Mr. Miller of Florida, Mr. Pence,
Mr. Sali, Mr. Bilbray, Mr. Walberg, and Mr. Bartlett of Maryland)
introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on
Oversight and Government Reform
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A BILL
To prohibit Federal agencies from obligating funds for earmarks
included only in congressional reports, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Earmark Transparency and
Accountability Act of 2007''.
SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON OBLIGATION OF FUNDS FOR EARMARKS INCLUDED ONLY
IN CONGRESSIONAL REPORTS.
(a) In General.--No Federal agency may obligate any funds made
available in an appropriation Act or other Act to implement an earmark
that is included in a congressional report accompanying the
appropriation Act or other Act, unless the earmark is also included in
such Act.
SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.
As used in this Act:
(1) The term ``congressional report'' means a report of a
committee of the House of Representatives or the Senate, or a
joint explanatory statement of a committee of conference.
(2) The term ``earmark'' means a provision in a bill or
conference report, or language in an accompanying committee
report or joint statement of managers with respect to a general
appropriation bill, or conference report thereon, providing or
recommending an amount of budget authority for a contract,
loan, loan guarantee, grant, or other expenditure with or to
any entity, if--
(A) such entity is specifically identified in the
report or bill; or
(B) if the discretionary budget authority is
allocated outside of the statutory or administrative
formula-driven or competitive bidding process and is
targeted or directed to an identifiable entity,
specific State, or Congressional district.
(3) The term ``entity'' includes a private business, State,
territory or locality, or Federal entity.
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