US HB1615 | 2017-2018 | 115th Congress

Status

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 85-0)
Status: Introduced on March 17 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-03-17 - Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
Pending: House Administration Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Summary

Get Foreign Money Out of U.S. Elections Act This bill amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (FECA) to ban campaign contributions and expenditures by corporations that are controlled, influenced, or owned by foreign nationals. Foreign nationals and such corporations may not make disbursements to political committees that accept donations or contributions that do not comply with the limitations, prohibitions, and reporting requirements of FECA. Corporate political action committees may make contributions and expenditures only if they comply with limitations on the involvement of foreign nationals and such corporations.

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Title

Get Foreign Money Out of U.S. Elections Act

Sponsors

Rep. Jamie Raskin [D-MD]Rep. Joyce Beatty [D-OH]Rep. Anthony Brown [D-MD]Rep. Katherine Clark [D-MA]
Rep. Lacy Clay [D-MO]Rep. Steve Cohen [D-TN]Rep. John Conyers [D-MI]Rep. Jim Cooper [D-TN]
Rep. Lloyd Doggett [D-TX]Rep. Adriano Espaillat [D-NY]Rep. Dwight Evans [D-PA]Rep. Raul Grijalva [D-AZ]
Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham [D-NM]Rep. Brian Higgins [D-NY]Rep. Pramila Jayapal [D-WA]Rep. Hakeem Jeffries [D-NY]
Rep. Henry Johnson [D-GA]Rep. Marcy Kaptur [D-OH]Rep. Ruben Kihuen [D-NV]Rep. Barbara Lee [D-CA]
Rep. Zoe Lofgren [D-CA]Rep. Jerry McNerney [D-CA]Rep. Eleanor Norton [D-DC]Rep. Beto O'Rourke [D-TX]
Rep. John Sarbanes [D-MD]Rep. Darren Soto [D-FL]Sen. Peter Welch [D-VT]Rep. David Cicilline [D-RI]
Rep. Stephen Lynch [D-MA]Rep. Richard Nolan [D-MN]Rep. Tom O'Halleran [D-AZ]Rep. Janice Schakowsky [D-IL]
Rep. James McGovern [D-MA]Rep. Salud Carbajal [D-CA]Rep. Brendan Boyle [D-PA]Rep. Grace Meng [D-NY]
Rep. Norma Torres [D-CA]Rep. Pete Aguilar [D-CA]Rep. Gerald Connolly [D-VA]Rep. Yvette Clarke [D-NY]
Rep. Ro Khanna [D-CA]Rep. Donald Norcross [D-NJ]Rep. Scott Peters [D-CA]Rep. Kathleen Rice [D-NY]
Sen. Ben Lujan [D-NM]Rep. Matthew Cartwright [D-PA]Rep. Carolyn Maloney [D-NY]Rep. Juan Vargas [D-CA]
Rep. Eliot Engel [D-NY]Rep. Theodore Deutch [D-FL]Rep. Peter DeFazio [D-OR]Rep. Lisa Rochester [D-DE]
Rep. Mike Quigley [D-IL]Rep. Denny Heck [D-WA]Rep. Jared Huffman [D-CA]Rep. Julia Brownley [D-CA]
Rep. Charlie Crist [D-FL]Rep. Anna Eshoo [D-CA]Rep. Conor Lamb [D-PA]Rep. Chellie Pingree [D-ME]
Rep. David Price [D-NC]Rep. John Yarmuth [D-KY]Rep. Paul Tonko [D-NY]Rep. Joseph Crowley [D-NY]
Rep. Michael Capuano [D-MA]Rep. Tulsi Gabbard [D-HI]Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi [D-IL]Rep. Seth Moulton [D-MA]
Rep. Adam Smith [D-WA]Rep. Nydia Velazquez [D-NY]Rep. John Delaney [D-MD]Rep. Mark Takano [D-CA]
Rep. Ron Kind [D-WI]Rep. Luis Gutierrez [D-IL]Rep. Jerrold Nadler [D-NY]Rep. Derek Kilmer [D-WA]
Rep. Mark DeSaulnier [D-CA]Rep. Jose Serrano [D-NY]Rep. Jared Polis [D-CO]Rep. Ted Lieu [D-CA]
Rep. Alan Lowenthal [D-CA]Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee [D-TX]Rep. Carol Shea-Porter [D-NH]Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz [D-FL]
Rep. Joseph Morelle [D-NY]

History

DateChamberAction
2017-03-17HouseReferred to the House Committee on House Administration.
2017-03-17HouseIntroduced in House

Same As/Similar To

SB1585 (Related) 2017-07-19 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration.
SB1880 (Related) 2017-09-27 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
HB6239 (Related) 2018-06-27 - Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Financial Services, and Oversight and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
SB3150 (Related) 2018-06-27 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration.

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