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Providing for a moratorium on the consideration of any bill or joint resolution, or amendment thereto or conference report thereon, that contains any congressional earmark until a bipartisan panel is established to provide oversight over the congressional earmarking process and that panel reports its recommendations to the House.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

October 10, 2007

Mr. FLAKE (for himself and Mr. MORAN of Kansas) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on RulesCommentsClose CommentsPermalink

Providing for a moratorium on the consideration of any bill or joint resolution, or amendment thereto or conference report thereon, that contains any congressional earmark until a bipartisan panel is established to provide oversight over the congressional earmarking process and that panel reports its recommendations to the House.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

Resolved, That, notwithstanding clause 9 of rule XXI of the Rules of the House of Representatives, it shall not be in order to consider any bill or joint resolution, or amendment thereto or conference report thereon, that contains any congressional earmark (as defined in such rule) unless and until--CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





(1) a bipartisan panel comprised of Members appointed by the Speaker and the minority leader is established to make recommendations to the House on how to better provide oversight of the congressional earmarking process to prevent waste, fraud, and abuse of taxpayer funds; andCommentsClose CommentsPermalink





(2) that panel reports its recommendations to the House.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink