Bill H.R.8528 titled “To promote election integrity, voter confidence, and faith in elections by removing Federal impediments to, providing State tools for, and establishing voluntary considerations to support effective State administration of Federal elections, improving election administration in the District of Columbia, improving the effectiveness of military voting programs, and protecting political speech, and for other purposes” was referred to the Committee on House Administration and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary Oversight and Reform Ways and Means Science Space and Technology Financial Services Intelligence (Permanent Select) Energy and Commerce and Homeland Security 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 by the House of Representatives. The bill is sponsored by Rep. Rodney Davis with Brian Babin, Don Bacon, Mike Bost, Jerry Carl, Earl Carter, Tom Cole, Dan Crenshaw, Virginia Foxx, Mike Garcia, Glenn Grothman, Richard Hudson, Dusty Johnson, Jake Laturner, Barry Loudermilk, Kevin Mccarthy, Mariannette Miller-Meeks, Gregory Murphy, Adrian Smith, Christopher Smith, Bryan Steil, W. Steube, Claudia Tenney, William Timmons as cosponsors.
Bill H.R.8544 titled “To impose sanctions with respect to the transfer of arms and related materiel by the People's Republic of China to the Russian Federation or the evasion or circumvention of United States sanctions or multilateral sanctions by the People's Republic of China with respect to the Russian Federation, and for other purposes” was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary Financial Services Ways and Means and Intelligence (Permanent Select) 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 by the House of Representatives. The bill is sponsored by Rep. Adam Schiff with Andre Carson, Ed Case, Jason Crow, Veronica Escobar, Sylvia Garcia, Sheila Jackson Lee, Raja Krishnamoorthi, Tom Malinowski, Stephanie Murphy, Dean Phillips, Mike Quigley, Michael San Nicolas, Eric Swalwell, Juan Vargas as cosponsors.
Most bills have a hearing where those involved explain why they are for or against the bill. Roughly 8,000 bills are addressed by committees each year but only about 800 make it to the floor of Congress, according to ushistory.org.
A 2019 report from the Brookings Institute argued committees aren’t capable of delving fully into the issues they address and are forced to rely on lobbyists.
| Bill Name | Sponsor | Action |
|---|---|---|
| To promote election integrity, voter confidence, and faith in elections by removing Federal impediments to, providing State tools for, and establishing voluntary considerations to support effective State administration of Federal elections, improving election administration in the District of Columbia, improving the effectiveness of military voting programs, and protecting political speech, and for other purposes. | Rep. Davis, Rodney | House of Representatives |
| To impose sanctions with respect to the transfer of arms and related materiel by the People's Republic of China to the Russian Federation or the evasion or circumvention of United States sanctions or multilateral sanctions by the People's Republic of China with respect to the Russian Federation, and for other purposes. | Rep. Schiff, Adam B. | House of Representatives |
