MI HR0334

Calls on Congress to end federal grants from the Presidential Election Campaign Fund that support major party presidential nominating conventions.

Federal grants provided nearly $18 million each to Democratic and Republican parties in 2012, with over $220 million in total taxpayer dollars directed to major parties since 1976.

Characterizes convention funding as wasteful spending on events featuring "weeklong parties, extravagant hotels, speech coaches, makeup artists" during a period of trillion-dollar national debt.

Notes federal grants covered 95 percent of convention costs in 1980 but only 23 percent in 2008, arguing major parties can now fund conventions through private and corporate contributions.

Directs copies of the resolution be sent to the President of the United States Senate, Speaker of the House, and Michigan's congressional delegation.