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119-hr-9726119th Congress

CAP Act

Sponsored By: Representative Barrett, Tom [R-MI-7]

Introduced

Summary

Caps campaign spending by tying a candidate’s annual allowable expenditures to the prior year’s average Members’ Representational Allowance (MRA). This bill would limit how much a principal campaign committee for a House Representative, a Delegate, or a Resident Commissioner could spend in a year by referencing the previous year’s average MRA amount. The cap is defined by the MRA computation in the cited House administrative statute and the text includes no explicit phase‑in, sunset, or automatic escalation mechanism.

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

1 provisions identified: 0 benefits, 1 costs, 0 mixed.

Spending cap for House campaigns

The bill would limit how much the principal campaign committee of any candidate for U.S. Representative, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner could spend in a year. Committees would be barred from making expenditures that exceed the average amount made available in the previous year to a Member from the Members' Representational Allowance (MRA) under 2 U.S.C. 5341. The annual cap would be set each year by that prior-year average MRA amount. The bill text does not itself set a numeric dollar amount, phase-in, or sunset.

Sponsors & CoSponsors

Sponsor

Barrett, Tom [R-MI-7]

MI • R

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

No roll call votes available for this bill.

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