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Citizen Legislature Anti-Corruption Reform of Congress Act or the CLEAN Congress Act This bill (1) requires bills, orders, resolutions, or votes submitted by Congress to the President to include only one subject that is clearly and descriptively expressed in the measure's title; and (2) makes ineffective any provision of law that excludes its application to a Member of Congress or to an employee in a Member's office.

Transparent Representation Upholding Service and Trust in Congress Act or the TRUST in Congress Act This bill requires a Member of Congress, as well as any spouse or dependent child, to place specified investments into a qualified blind trust (i.e., an arrangement in which certain financial holdings are placed in someone else's control to avoid a possible conflict of interest) until 180 days after the end of their tenure as a Member of Congress.

No Raise for Congress Act This bill eliminates automatic pay adjustments for Members of Congress.

Hold Congress Accountable Act This bill provides for withholding or eliminating the pay of Members of Congress during a government shutdown. Through the day of the general election in November 2020, the bill requires the salaries of Members to be held in escrow during a government shutdown and to be released on the last day of the 116th Congress. After the general election in November 2020, the bill eliminates the pay of Members for the period of a government shutdown.

Restoring Oversight for Members of Congress Act This bill requires agencies or managers that control access to federal facilities to provide immediate access to Members of Congress, excluding the Vice President, unless access is denied for national security reasons with congressional approval.

Restoring Oversight for Members of Congress Act This bill requires agencies or managers that control access to federal facilities to provide immediate access to Members of Congress, excluding the Vice President, unless access is denied for national security reasons with congressional approval.

No Pay Raise for Congress Act This bill cancels the automatic adjustment to the pay of Members of Congress that is based on the employment cost index if the Congressional Budget Office determines that there was a federal budget deficit in the last fiscal year.

This bill eliminates automatic pay adjustments for Members of Congress, beginning with the 117th Congress.

This concurrent resolution calls for the full release to Congress and the public release, as allowed by law, of any report (including findings) Special Counsel Mueller provides to the Department of Justice.

Members of Congress Pension Opt Out Clarification Act This bill allows future Members of the House of Representatives to opt out of the Federal Employees Retirement System, an option currently available to Members of the House who began serving before September 30, 2003, and all Senators. In addition, it permits Members of Congress who opt out to continue to participate in the Thrift Savings Plan.

This resolution reaffirms Congress's commitment to the Paris Agreement to combat climate change and states that the United States is still in the agreement and should not withdraw.

This bill prohibits federal payments of death gratuities to survivors of Members of Congress.

This joint resolution proposes a constitutional amendment prohibiting the delegation of the legislative powers granted to Congress. Congress may enact legislation and the President may rescind or terminate any rule, regulation, or order to address the treatment of existing delegations before ratification of this article.

This resolution elects specified Members to the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library and the Joint Committee on Printing.

This resolution sets forth the levels of payment for 116th Congress expenses (including staff salaries) for the following House Committees: (1) Agriculture; (2) Armed Services; (3) the Budget; (4) Select Committee on the Climate Crisis; (5) Education and Labor; (6) Energy and Commerce; (7) Ethics; (8) Financial Services; (9) Foreign Affairs; (10) Homeland Security; (11) House Administration; (12) Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence; (13) the Judiciary; (14) Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress; (15) Natural Resources; (16) Oversight and Reform; (17) Rules; (18) Science, Space, and Technology; (19) Small Business; (20) Transportation and Infrastructure; (21) Veterans' Affairs; and (22) Ways and Means. Among other things, this resolution (1) prescribes limitations to such expenses for the 1st and 2nd sessions of the 116th Congress, and (2) establishes a reserve fund for unanticipated committee expenses for the 116th Congress.

This concurrent resolution provides for a joint session of Congress on January 29, 2019, to receive a message from the President.

This resolution provides for the printing of a revised edition of the Senate Manual for the 116th Congress.

This concurrent resolution provides for a joint session of Congress on February 4, 2020, to receive a message from the President.

This concurrent resolution provides for a joint session of Congress on February 5, 2019, to receive a message from the President.

Walter B. Jones Restoring Power to Congress Act This bill repeals the Authorization for Use of Military Force signed into law September 18, 2001.

This bill requires the Librarian of Congress, concurrently with the planned renovation and replacement of existing glass panels, to obtain a stained glass panel depicting the seal of the District of Columbia and install it among the panels depicting the seals of states that overlook the Main Reading Room of the Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building.

This resolution provides amounts for the expenses of the House Committee on Agriculture for the 116th Congress.

This resolution provides amounts for the expenses of the House Committee on the Judiciary for the 116th Congress.

This resolution provides amounts for the expenses of the House Committee on the Budget for the 116th Congress.

Keep Congress Working Act This bill makes it out of order in the House of Representatives or the Senate to adjourn for more than 12 hours during any lapse in appropriations for all or part of the federal government. Furthermore, in the Senate, the bill permits waiver or suspension of such prohibition, or a successful appeal of a ruling of the chair regarding such prohibition, only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Senate.