; findings (a) Short title This Act may be cited as the Confirmation Of Congressional Observer Access Act of 2023 or the COCOA Act of 2023 . (b) Findings relating to congressional election observers Congress finds the following: (1) Article 1, section 5, clause 1 of the Constitution grants Congress the authority to be the Judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications of its own Members . (2) The House of Representatives serves as the final arbiter over any contest to the seating of any putative Member-elect. (3) Congress has exercised this authority—and responsibility—since our Nation’s very beginning, from the First Congress through the One Hundred Eighteenth Congress. Over our history, election contests have remained a normal and regular part of the biennial process for electing, recognizing, and seating new Members. Although Congress has opted to revise the statutory framework by which it considers election contests, consideration of such contests has been a regular and recurring part of Congress’ constitutional prerogatives and work. For example, across our Nation’s history, more than approximately 610 elections have been contested in the House—an average of more than 5 per Congress. Indeed, even discounting the Reconstruction period and its surge in election contests, there have been 110 contested election cases considered in the House since 1933—an average of more than 2 contests per Congress. (4) These election contest procedures are contained in the precedents of each House of Congress. Further, for the House of Representatives the procedures exist under the Federal Contested Elections Act. (5) For decades, the House of Representatives has appointed its staff to watch the administration of congressional elections in the States and territories. Critically, congressional observers serve to gather real-time information and data for the House in anticipation of an election contest being filed. 2. Access for congressional election observers (a) Access required Title III of the Help America Vote Act of