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To require reports on travel of Executive branch officers and employees to international conferences, and for other purposes.

Introduced: October 11, 1998 Introduced by: Smith, Christopher H. Republican · New Jersey See on congress.gov
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 Everywhere this bill has been 11 steps
Introduced
In committee
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Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Oct 14, 1998
Received in the Senate.
Oct 13, 1998
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Oct 13, 1998
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.
Oct 13, 1998
Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.
Oct 13, 1998
Considered as unfinished business.
Oct 13, 1998
At the conclusion of debate, the chair put the question on the motion to suspend the rules. Mr. Hamilton objected to the vote on the grounds that a quorum was not present. Further proceedings on the motion were postponed. The point of no quorum was withdrawn.
Oct 13, 1998
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate.
Oct 13, 1998
Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H10723-10724, H10799)
Oct 13, 1998
Mr. Smith (NJ) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
Oct 11, 1998
Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
Oct 11, 1998
Introduced in House
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Requires each officer and employee of an executive agency who travels abroad to attend an international conference to submit to the Director of the Office of International Conferences of the Department of State a report on such travel. Excludes the President, the Vice President, and any employee who is carrying out an intelligence activity, performing a protective function, or engaged in a sensitive diplomatic mission.

Requires the Director to submit biannual reports on such travel to the Senate Committees on Foreign Relations and Appropriations and the House Committees on International Relations and Appropriations

Directs the President to submit to such committees annual reports setting forth: (1) the total Government expenditures on all official travel abroad by each executive agency during the preceding fiscal year; and (2) the total number of agency officers and employees who engaged in such travel.

What's happening now October 14, 1998

Received in the Senate.

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