Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 313) to amend title 5, United States Code, to institute spending limits and transparency requirements for Federal conference and travel expenditures, and for other purposes, as amended. The Clerk read the title of the bill. The text of the bill is as follows: H.R. 313 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Government Spending Accountability Act of 2013'' or the ``GSA Act of 2013''. SEC. 2. LIMITS AND TRANSPARENCY FOR CONFERENCE AND TRAVEL SPENDING. (a) Amendment.--Chapter 57 of title 5, United States Code, is amended by inserting after section 5711 the following: ``Sec. 5712. Limits and transparency for conference and travel spending ``(a) Conference Transparency and Spending Limits.-- ``(1) Public availability of conference materials.--Each agency shall post on the public website of that agency detailed information on any presentation made by any employee of that agency at a conference (except to the extent the head of an agency excludes such information for reasons of national security or information described under section 552(b)) including-- ``(A) the prepared text of any verbal presentation made; and ``(B) any visual, digital, video, or audio materials presented, including photographs, slides, and audio-visual recordings.…”