2 U.S.C. § 1605
Disclosure and enforcement
United States · Title 2 — THE CONGRESS · Status: effective
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- 2 U.S.C. § 1605, Disclosure and enforcement, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/423218
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The Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives shall—
develop filing, coding, and cross-indexing systems to carry out the purpose of this chapter, including—
maintain all registrations and reports filed under this chapter, and make them available to the public over the Internet, without a fee or other access charge, in a searchable, sortable, and downloadable manner, to the extent technically practicable, that—
The Attorney General shall report to the congressional committees referred to in paragraph (2), after the end of each semiannual period beginning on January 1 and July 1, the aggregate number of enforcement actions taken by the Department of Justice under this chapter during that semiannual period and, by case, any sentences imposed, except that such report shall not include the names of individuals, or personally identifiable information, that is not already a matter of public record.
The congressional committees referred to in paragraph (1) are the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate and the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives.
Legislative history
The public laws that enacted or amended this section. Tallies are for the whole bill as it passed each chamber — often an omnibus covering far more than this provision — not a vote on this section alone.
- Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995House: no recorded tallySenate: 98–0
- Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2007