To provide that, in making payments from the Presidential Election Campaign Fund, including the Presidential Matching Payment Account, amounts estimated to be transferred to the Fund during the fiscal year before the fiscal year of the presidential election shall be taken into account.
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require the Secretary of the Treasury to take into account the amounts estimated to be transferred to the Presidential Election Campaign Fund (Fund) during the fiscal year before the one in which the presidential election involved occurs before determining that the Fund is insufficiently funded to satisfy the full entitlements of eligible candidates (thus triggering pro rata payment reductions to them).
Directs the Secretary to base deposits into the Presidential Primary Matching Payment Account on estimated Fund income.
Prohibits presidential and vice presidential candidates from receiving Fund assistance without a certification that any television commercial prepared or distributed by such candidate will readily permit closed captioning of the commercial's oral content by way of a specified broadcast technology.
Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 288 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 3644 with 1 hour of general debate. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit. All points of order against consideration of the bill for failure to comply with the provisions of clause 2(l)(6) of rule XI shall be waived. General debate shall be confined to the bill and the amendments made in order by this resolution and shall not exceed one hour, with forty minutes to be equally divided and controlled by the chairman and ranking minority member of the Committee on House Administration, and with twenty minutes equally divided and controlled by the chairman and ranking minority member of teh Committee on Ways and Means. Measure will be read by section. Specified amendments are in order. It shall be in order to consider the amendment in the nature of a substitute recommended by the Committee on House ...