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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.

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

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

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

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.

This resolution elects Senate members to the Joint Committee on Printing and the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library.

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.

This bill prohibits federal funds from being used to pay for travel by a Member of Congress during any government shutdown, except for travel by a Member to the District of Columbia metropolitan area.

This bill revises post-employment lobbying restrictions on former Members of Congress. Specifically, it makes permanent the post-employment lobbying ban on a former Member of the Senate (currently, two years) or a former Member of the House of Representatives (currently, one year).

This bill expands financial disclosure reporting provisions to require Members of Congress to include in their report any business ties the Member or his or her immediate family has with a foreign entity.

Constitutional Amendment This joint resolution proposes a constitutional amendment limiting Members of the House of Representatives to six terms and Members of the Senate to two terms. This article shall not apply to any person who served as a Representative or as a Senator before the 116th Congress.

Constitutional Amendment This joint resolution proposes a constitutional amendment limiting Members of the House of Representatives to six terms and Members of the Senate to two terms. This article shall not apply to any person who served as a Representative or as a Senator before the 115th Congress.

Constitutional Amendment This joint resolution proposes a constitutional amendment limiting the total period an individual may serve as a Member of Congress to 12 years. Periods of service occurring before the ratification of this article do not count towards term limits.

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.

Constitutional Amendment This joint resolution proposes a constitutional amendment prohibiting Members of Congress from receiving compensation for any period a government shutdown is in effect.

Constitutional Amendment This joint resolution proposes a constitutional amendment prohibiting Members of Congress from receiving compensation during a fiscal year unless both chambers have agreed to an identical concurrent resolution on the budget for that fiscal year before October 1.

This resolution (1) recognizes the contributions of teachers to the United States, (2) thanks teachers for their service, and (3) recommends that each Member of Congress spend at least one day per year serving as a substitute teacher in a public school.

This bill prohibits a former Member of Congress or former senior congressional employee who is a registered lobbyist representing a foreign principal from being eligible for * the Civil Service Retirement System or the Federal Employees Retirement System, including the Thrift Savings Plan; * the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program; or * the Federal Employees' Group Life Insurance Program.

This resolution condemns as false, inflammatory, and racially offensive statements made by the President regarding four women of color who are duly elected Members of Congress. It calls upon all Americans to celebrate the ethnic, racial, and religious diversity that has made the United States the leader of the community of nations and the beacon of hope and inspiration to oppressed persons everywhere. It encourages all persons in the nation to cherish and exercise the rights, privileges, and responsibilities guaranteed by the Constitution.

This resolution adopts the Rules of the House of Representatives for the 116th Congress. The resolution adopts the rules of the 115th Congress with amendments that include * allowing Delegates and the Resident Commissioner to vote in the Committee of the Whole; * revising annual ethics training requirements; * providing mandatory anti-harassment and anti-discrimination policies for House offices; * prohibiting Members, officers, and employees of the House from serving as an officer or director of a public company; * requiring Members to pay for any discrimination settlements against them; * requiring indicted Members to step down from any committee and leadership positions until disposition of the criminal case; * reinstating certain provisions of Pay-As-You-Go rules; * providing for automatic suspension of the debt limit if the House adopts a budget resolution (Gephardt rule); * requiring committee hearings and markups on bills and joint resolutions before floor consideration; * revising the rule prohibiting a floor vote on a measure before the third day text is available to require text to be available for 72 hours before a floor vote; * excluding measures addressing the War Powers Resolution from "motions to table"; * renaming, establishing, or reauthorizing specified congressional committees, commissions, and offices; * creating a Consensus Calendar, which provides an alternative path to a floor vote for measures with 290 or more cosponsors; * permitting religious headwear in the Hall of the House; * authorizing the Speaker to intervene in litigation involving the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; * directing the Office of General Counsel to explore legal options for responding to certain rulemaking by the Department of Agriculture regarding Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program requirements for able-bodied adults without dependents; * prohibiting nondisclosure agreements from requiring notice or approval for employees to communicate with certain offices or entities, including the Committee on Ethics and the Office of Congressional Workplace Rights; and * requiring each House office to prominently display a statement of the rights and protections provided to House employees. The resolution also bans (1) discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity, and (2) sexual relationships between Members and committee staff. For more detailed information, seeCongressional Research Service Report R45787,House Rules Changes Affecting Floor Proceedings in the 116th Congress (2019-2020),Congressional Research Service Report R45731,House Rules Changes Affecting Committee Procedure in the 116th Congress (2019-2020), andCongressional Research Service Report R45552,Changes to House Rules Affecting the Congressional Budget Process Included in H.Res. 6 (116th Congress).

This resolution sets forth the rule for consideration of H.Con.Res. 24 (expressing the sense of Congress that the report of Special Counsel Mueller should be made available to the public and to Congress). On any legislative day from March 15, 2019, through March 22, 2019, the Journal of the proceedings of the previous day shall be considered as approved, and the chair may at any time declare the House adjourned to meet at a date and time. The Speaker of the House may appoint Members to perform the duties of the chair for the duration of such specified period.