Protecting Our Democracy Act
Official title: To protect our democracy by preventing abuses of Presidential power, restoring checks and balances and accountability and transparency in government, and defen… Show full official titleShow less
Official title: To protect our democracy by preventing abuses of Presidential power, restoring checks and balances and accountability and transparency in government, and defending elections against foreign interference, and for other purposes.
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Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, House Administration, the Budget, Transportation and Infrastructure, Rules, Foreign Affairs, 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.
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- TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL U.S. (A PROJECT OF THE FUND FOR CONSTITUTIONAL GOVT)
- CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC.
- NATIONAL TREASURY EMPLOYEES UNION
- NETWORK LOBBY FOR CATHOLIC SOCIAL JUSTICE
- LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS
- NETWORK LOBBY FOR CATHOLIC SOCIAL JUSTICE
Bodies those filers lobbied
- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- SENATE
- White House Office
- Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS)
- Justice, Dept of (DOJ)
- Labor, Dept of (DOL)
- State, Dept of (DOS)
- Treasury, Dept of
Cite this page
U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 8831: Protecting Our Democracy Act. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-8831/
"H.R. 8831: Protecting Our Democracy Act." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-8831/.
H.R. 8831, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-8831/.
[H.R. 8831: Protecting Our Democracy Act](https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-8831/)