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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 2624
To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit former Members and
elected officers of Congress from lobbying Congress at any time after
leaving office, to prohibit the use of funds for official travel expenses
of Members of Congress and legislative branch employees for airline
accommodations other than coach class, to eliminate automatic pay ad-
justments for Members of Congress, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
APRIL3, 2025
Ms. C
RAIG(for herself and Ms. MCCOLLUM) introduced the following bill;
which was referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in
addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Ethics, Rules, and Over-
sight and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently deter-
mined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions
as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned
A BILL
To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit former
Members and elected officers of Congress from lobbying
Congress at any time after leaving office, to prohibit
the use of funds for official travel expenses of Members
of Congress and legislative branch employees for airline
accommodations other than coach class, to eliminate
automatic pay adjustments for Members of Congress,
and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 1
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Halt Unchecked Mem-2
ber Benefits with Lobbying Elimination Act’’ or the 3
‘‘HUMBLE Act’’. 4
SEC. 2. PROHIBITING FORMER MEMBERS AND OFFICERS 5
OF CONGRESS FROM LOBBYING CONGRESS. 6
(a) P
ROHIBITION.—Section 207(e)(1) of title 18, 7
United States Code, is amended to read as follows: 8
‘‘(1) M
EMBERS AND ELECTED OFFICERS OF 9
CONGRESS.—Any person who is a Senator, a Mem-10
ber of the House of Representatives, or an elected 11
officer of the Senate or the House of Representa-12
tives and who, after that person leaves office, know-13
ingly makes, with the intent to influence, any com-14
munication to or appearance before any Member, of-15
ficer, or employee of either House of Congress or 16
any employee of any other legislative office of the 17
Congress, on behalf of any other person (except the 18
United States) in connection with any matter on 19
which such former Senator, Member, or elected offi-20
cial seeks action by a Member, officer, or employee 21
of either House of Congress, in his or her official ca-22
pacity, shall be punished as provided in section 216 23
of this title.’’. 24
(b) C
ONFORMINGAMENDMENTS.—Section 207(e)(2) 25
of such title is amended— 26
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(1) in the heading, by striking ‘‘OFFICERS AND 1
STAFF’’ and inserting ‘‘STAFF’’; 2
(2) by striking ‘‘an elected officer of the Senate, 3
or’’; 4
(3) by striking ‘‘leaves office or employment’’ 5
and inserting ‘‘leaves employment’’; and 6
(4) by striking ‘‘former elected officer or’’. 7
(c) E
FFECTIVEDATE.—The amendments made by 8
this section shall apply with respect to an individual who 9
leaves office on or after the date of the enactment of this 10
Act. 11
SEC. 3. PROHIBITING USE OF FUNDS FOR OFFICIAL TRAV-12
EL EXPENSES OF MEMBERS OF CONGRESS 13
AND LEGISLATIVE BRANCH EMPLOYEES FOR 14
AIRLINE ACCOMMODATIONS OTHER THAN 15
COACH CLASS. 16
(a) P
ROHIBITION.—Except as provided in subsection 17
(b), no funds appropriated or otherwise made available for 18
the official travel expenses of a Member of Congress or 19
other officer or employee of any office in the legislative 20
branch may be used for airline accommodations which are 21
not coach-class accommodations. 22
(b) E
XCEPTIONS.—Funds described in subsection (a) 23
may be used for airline accommodations which are not 24
coach-class accommodations for an individual described in 25
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subsection (a) if the use of the funds for such accommoda-1
tions would be permitted under sections 301–10.121 2
through 301–10.125 of title 41 of the Code of Federal 3
Regulations if the individual were an employee of an agen-4
cy which is subject to chapter 301 of such title. 5
(c) R
ULE OFCONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this Act 6
may be construed to affect any officer or employee of an 7
office of the legislative branch which, as of the date of 8
the enactment of this Act, is subject to chapter 301 of 9
title 41 of the Code of Federal Regulations. 10
(d) D
EFINITIONS.— 11
(1) C
OACH-CLASS ACCOMMODATIONS .—In this 12
Act, the term ‘‘coach-class accommodations’’ means 13
the basic class of accommodation by airlines that is 14
normally the lowest fare offered regardless of airline 15
terminology used, and (as referred to by airlines) 16
may include tourist class or economy class, as well 17
as single class when the airline offers only one class 18
of accommodations to all travelers. 19
(2) M
EMBER OF CONGRESS .—In this Act, the 20
term ‘‘Member of Congress’’ means a Senator or a 21
Representative in, or Delegate or Resident Commis-22
sioner to, the Congress. 23
(e) E
FFECTIVEDATE.—This section shall apply with 24
respect to fiscal year 2026 and each succeeding fiscal year. 25
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SEC. 4. BENEFITS AND SERVICES PROVIDED TO FORMER 1
MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTA-2
TIVES. 3
(a) B
ENEFITS AND SERVICESDESCRIBED.—The 4
House of Representatives may not make any of the fol-5
lowing benefits and services available to an individual who 6
becomes a former Member of the House (except to the 7
extent such benefits and services are made available to 8
members of the public): 9
(1) Access to the Hall of the House. 10
(2) Access to athletic facilities and other facili-11
ties available for the use of Members of the House. 12
(3) Access to the Members’ Dining Room lo-13
cated in the House of Representatives wing of the 14
United States Capitol. 15
(4) Access to parking spaces. 16
(5) Access to material from the House docu-17
ment room. 18
(6) Use of the collections in the House Legisla-19
tive Resource Center without borrowing privileges. 20
(b) W
AIVERAUTHORITY.— 21
(1) A
UTHORITY TO WAIVE ELIMINATION OF 22
BENEFIT OR SERVICE.—The Speaker and the minor-23
ity leader of the House of Representatives may joint-24
ly, on a case-by-case basis, grant a waiver of sub-25
section (a) with respect to a former Member of the 26
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House and a benefit or service described in such 1
subsection. 2
(2) P
UBLICATION IN CONGRESSIONAL 3
RECORD.—If the Speaker and the minority leader 4
jointly grant a waiver under paragraph (1) to make 5
a benefit or service available to a former Member, 6
the Speaker and minority leader shall, not later than 7
24 hours after the waiver is granted, cause to have 8
published in the Congressional Record a statement 9
identifying the former Member and the benefit or 10
service involved. 11
SEC. 5. PROHIBITING MEMBERS OF HOUSE OF REPRESENT-12
ATIVES FROM OWNING INDIVIDUAL STOCKS. 13
(a) I
NGENERAL.—Rule XXIII of the Rules of the 14
House of Representatives is amended— 15
(1) by redesignating clause 22 as clause 23; 16
and 17
(2) by inserting after clause 21 the following: 18
‘‘22. A Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner 19
may not own the common stock of any individual corpora-20
tion.’’. 21
(b) E
FFECTIVEDATE.—The amendment made by 22
subsection (a) shall take effect immediately before noon 23
on January 3, 2027. 24
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SEC. 6. ELIMINATION OF AUTOMATIC PAY ADJUSTMENTS 1
FOR MEMBERS OF CONGRESS. 2
(a) I
NGENERAL.—Paragraph (2) of section 601(a) 3
of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (2 U.S.C. 4
4501(2)) is repealed. 5
(b) C
ONFORMINGAMENDMENTS.—Section 601(a)(1) 6
of such Act (2 U.S.C. 4501) is amended— 7
(1) by striking ‘‘(a)(1)’’ and inserting ‘‘(a)’’; 8
(2) by redesignating subparagraphs (A), (B), 9
and (C) as paragraphs (1), (2), and (3), respectively; 10
and 11
(3) by striking ‘‘, as adjusted by paragraph (2) 12
of this subsection’’. 13
(c) E
FFECTIVEDATE.—The amendments made by 14
this section shall apply with respect to pay periods begin-15
ning after the first general election for Federal office oc-16
curring after the date of the enactment of this Act. 17
SEC. 7. PROHIBITING MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF REP-18
RESENTATIVES FROM SERVING ON BOARDS 19
OF FOR-PROFIT ENTITIES. 20
Rule XXIII of the Rules of the House of Representa-21
tives, as amended by section 5(a), is amended— 22
(1) by redesignating clauses 19 through 23 as 23
clauses 20 through 24, respectively; and 24
(2) by inserting after clause 18 the following 25
new clause: 26
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‘‘19. A Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner 1
may not serve on the board of directors of any for-profit 2
entity.’’. 3
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