Stop Settlement Slush Funds Act of 2023

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Mr. McCORMICK. Mr. Speaker, I rise to offer an amendment to H.R. 788.

I thank Representative Gooden and the Judiciary Committee for crafting this crucial piece of legislation that will further our mission of holding the executive branch accountable.

The underlying bill is trying to fix an important issue. The Biden administration, or any administration for that matter, should not be directing settlement funds to support their radical social agendas by financing politically favored third-party entities or programs, sometimes completely unrelated to the original litigation. This practice is just wrong.

My amendment is simple. It creates transparency by requiring the annual violation audits conducted by the inspector generals in section 2(f) of this bill to be made publicly available on an accessible website. The American people deserve to know what their government is doing. If a government agency, in violation of law, is directing these settlement payments to support political agendas, the public should know.

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Mr. McCORMICK. Mr. Speaker, in closing, I am glad he does not oppose it because it is transparency on a bill that is meant to create transparency. I hope nobody opposes that.

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