Stop Over Spending Act of 2006 -
Prohibits the President from resubmitting any proposed rescission that Congress rejects. Does allow the President to resubmit, in one subsequent special message, some or all of the dollar amounts of such rescissions if Congress adjourns sine die without completing legislative action on them.
Requires an analysis: (1) by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) of estimated savings in budget authority or outlays resulting from such rescission; and (2) by the Joint Committee on Taxation of estimated savings resulting from repeal of targeted tax benefits.
Requires any rescinded budget authority, items of direct spending, or targeted tax benefit to be dedicated only to deficit reduction, and not to be used as an offset for other spending increases or revenue reductions.
Requires the chairs of the Senate and House Budget Committees to revise spending and revenue levels under the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (CBA) and adjust CBA committee allocations and any other appropriate adjustments to reflect the rescission.
Requires revised allocations and aggregates to be considered to have been made under an agreed-to budget resolution and to be enforced under CBA procedures. Requires the President, after enactment of a rescission bill, to revise applicable limits under this Act, as appropriate.
Sets forth procedures for expedited congressional consideration of a proposed rescission.
Authorizes the President, up to 45 days after receipt by Congress of his special message, to: (1) withhold from obligation any discretionary budget authority; and (2) suspend the execution of any item of direct spending or targeted tax benefit.
Requires the Joint Committee on Taxation to: (1) review any revenue or reconciliation bill or joint resolution amending the Internal Revenue Code being prepared for filing by a conference committee; (2) identify whether such legislation contains any targeted tax benefits; and (3) provide the conference committee with a statement identifying such targeted benefits or declaring that such measure does not contain targeted tax benefits.
Terminates this Act on December 31, 2010.
Title II: Deficit Reduction - Subtitle A: Definitions, Administration, and Sequestration - (Sec. 202) Establishes a timetable for administration, reconciliation, and the effect of sequestration under this Act.
Requires the President to issue an order fully implementing without change all sequestrations required by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in its Final Sequestration Report.
(Sec. 203) Requires the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to report to Congress and the President on the order's compliance with this Act.
Subtitle B: Discretionary Spending Limits - (Sec. 211) Prescribes requirements for discretionary sequestration reports by OMB and GAO for the current year through 2009.
(Sec. 212) Establishes discretionary spending limits for FY2007-FY2009. Limits adjustments for emergency requirements designated by the President and enacted by Congress for such fiscal years.
Allows an adjustment if an appropriation measure is enacted for FY2007, FY2008, or FY2009 that includes $6.824 billion plus an additional amount for the enhanced tax enforcement initiative of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
Prescribes requirements for executive and legislative branch sequestration procedures to eliminate a budget-year breach if enacted discretionary appropriations exceed the discretionary spending limits.
Subtitle C: Maximum Deficit Amount Limitation - (Sec. 221) Sets the maximum deficit amounts for FY2007-FY2012.
(Sec. 222) Requires OMB and CBO, with respect to each fiscal year, to estimate: (1) the deficit; (2) the maximum deficit amount; and (3) any excess deficit amount for the budget year.
Sets forth OMB and CBO reporting requirements regarding the maximum deficit amount, revised estimates, and maximum deficit amount reconciliation.
(Sec. 223) Sets forth requirements for congressional response to OMB and CBO reconciliation reports.
(Sec. 224) Prescribes requirements for OMB and CBO revised estimates and final maximum deficit amount sequestration reports.
(Sec. 225) Requires the President, based on such report and the timetable specified in this Act, to issue an order to reduce the maximum deficit amount.
(Sec. 226) Prescribes special congressional procedures for response to low economic growth.
(Sec. 227) Exempts from sequestration orders any benefits payable under the old-age, survivors, and disability insurance program (OASDI) of Part II of the Social Security Act and Tier I railroad retirement benefits under the Railroad Retirement Act of 1974.
(Sec. 228) Prohibits the President's budget from exceeding the maximum deficit amount for any fiscal year.
Title III: Biennial Budget and Appropriations - (Sec. 301) Amends CBA to revise the timetable for the congressional budget process (beginning with the 110th Congress) to require biennial (currently, annual) budgets.
Defines the budget biennium as the period of two consecutive fiscal years beginning on October 1 of any odd-numbered year.
(Sec. 303) Requires biennial budget resolutions, appropriations Acts, and government strategic and performance plans.
(Sec. 307) Makes it out of order in the House of Representatives or the Senate in odd-numbered years to consider any regular bill providing new budget authority, or a limitation on obligations under the jurisdiction of any of the subcommittees of the Committees on Appropriations, for only the first fiscal year of a biennium, unless the program, project, or activity for which such authority or limitation is provided: (1) will require no additional authority beyond one year; and (2) will be completed or terminated after the amount has been expended.
(Sec. 308) Requires OMB to report to the House and Senate Committees on the Budget any changes in law to CBA and the provisions of this Act required to conform with a biennial budget process.
Title IV: Commissions - Subtitle A: National Commission on Entitlement Solvency - (Sec. 402) Establishes the National Commission on Entitlement Solvency to review and report to the President, Congress, the Commissioner of Social Security, and the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on the Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid programs, identifying problems that may threaten their long-term (at least 75-year) solvency.
(Sec. 403) Requires expedited congressional consideration of the Commission's legislative action recommendation.
Subtitle B: Commission on Congressional Budgetary Accountability and Review of Federal Agencies - (Sec. 412) Establishes the Commission on Congressional Budgetary Accountability and Review of Federal Agencies to: (1) evaluate all agencies and programs identified in the President's systematic assessment of agency programs to determine whether any are duplicative, wasteful, or outdated; (2) submit a plan to Congress for the elimination or the realignment of any agency or program that has completed its intended purpose, become irrelevant, or has failed to meet its objectives; and (3) propose legislation to meet such a plan.
(Sec. 416) Requires expedited congressional consideration of the Commission's recommendations for agency reform proposals.
(Sec. 418) Authorizes appropriations for FY2007-FY2011.
Title V: Budget Process Reforms - (Sec. 501) Amends CBICA to set forth new definitions to conform with this Act.
(Sec. 502) Amends CBA to revise budget resolution requirements. Allows appropriate congressional committees to submit recommendations for deficit reductions to the House or Senate Budget Committees. Modifies the contents of the Committee's hearing reports.
(Sec. 503) Repeals provisions requiring further division of amounts allocated to the Senate Committee on Appropriations.
(Sec. 504) Modifies: (1) requirements for adoption of the budget resolution before consideration of budget-related legislation; (2) procedures for congressional consideration of such resolution; (3) contents of the five-year budget projection; (4) reconciliation directives to be included in the resolution and congressional consideration of such directives; (5) enforcement mechanisms of budget aggregates; (6) mechanisms used by the House and Senate Budget Committees for determining levels of new budget authority, outlays, direct spending, new entitlement authority, and revenues for a fiscal year.
Repeals provisions relating to points of order in the Senate on discretionary spending and the maximum deficit amount.
(Sec. 510) Revises the prohibition against the inclusion of extraneous matter in reconciliation legislation. Provides that, except regarding consideration of conference reports, a provision shall not be considered extraneous if it produces an increase in outlays or decrease in governmental receipts that does not exceed 20% of the total change required in a committee's reconciliation instruction. Exempts technical and conforming provisions.
(Sec. 511) Repeals certain requirements for adjustments of: (1) discretionary spending limits, if any, set forth in the appropriate budget resolution; (2) certain committee allocations made pursuant to such resolution; and (3) budgetary aggregates set forth in it.
(Sec. 512) Authorizes the chairman of the Committee on the Budget to notify the Senate of a Medicare funding warning if the chairman projects that within seven years Treasury general fund contributions to Medicare funding, expressed as a percentage of total Medicare outlays, will exceed 45%.
Makes it out of order to consider any legislation that would cause any increase in direct spending, net of proposals to change direct spending receipts, or revenues contained in the measure, if the Senate has received a Medicare funding warning for two consecutive calendar years.
Permits waiver or suspension of such provisions only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths (60) of the Senate. Requires an affirmative vote of three-fifths also for appeals in the Senate of rulings of the Chair.
Declares that any notification of a Medicare funding warning is withdrawn if legislation is enacted to reduce the general fund contribution below 45%, as determined by the chairman.
(Sec. 513) Requires any submission to Congress, upon the request of either chamber, by a federal executive branch or D.C. government officer or employee of an appropriations estimate or request, a request for an increase in that estimate or request, or a recommendation on meeting the financial needs of the government to be submitted to both Congress and a congressional committee at the same time. (Currently such a submission may be to either the Congress or a congressional committee.)
[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3521 Introduced in Senate (IS)]
109th CONGRESS
2d Session
S. 3521
To establish a new budget process to create a comprehensive plan to
rein in spending, reduce the deficit, and regain control of the Federal
budget process.
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
June 15, 2006
Mr. Gregg (for himself, Mr. Frist, Mr. Allard, Mr. Enzi, Mr. Sessions,
Mr. Crapo, Mr. Ensign, Mr. Cornyn, Mr. Alexander, Mr. Graham, Mr. Kyl,
Mr. Thomas, Mr. Craig, Mr. Brownback, Mr. Isakson, Mr. DeMint, Mr.
McCain, Mr. Vitter, Mr. Thune, Mr. Chambliss, Mr. McConnell, Mr.
Bunning, and Mr. Domenici) introduced the following bill; which was
read twice and referred to the Committee on the Budget
_______________________________________________________________________
A BILL
To establish a new budget process to create a comprehensive plan to
rein in spending, reduce the deficit, and regain control of the Federal
budget process.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE: TABLE OF CONTENTS..
(a) Short Title.--This Act may be cited as the ``Stop Over Spending
Act of 2006''.
(b) Table of Contents.--The table of contents for this Act is as
follows:
Sec. 1. Short title: Table of contents..
Sec. 2. Purposes.
Sec. 3. Severability.
TITLE I--LEGISLATIVE LINE ITEM VETO ACT OF 2006
Sec. 101. Short title.
Sec. 102. Legislative line item veto.
TITLE II--DEFICIT REDUCTION
Subtitle A--Definitions, Administration, and Sequestration
Sec. 201. Definitions.
Sec. 202. Administration, reconciliation, and effect of sequestration.
Sec. 203. GAO Compliance Report.
Subtitle B--Discretionary Spending Limits
Sec. 211. Discretionary Sequestration Reports.
Sec. 212. Limits.
Subtitle C--Maximum Deficit Amount Limitation
Sec. 221. Maximum Deficit Amount.
Sec. 222. Reporting of excess deficits.
Sec. 223. Congressional response to OMB and CBO Reconciliation Report.
Sec. 224. Revised estimates and final maximum deficit amount
sequestration reports.
Sec. 225. Maximum deficit amount-Presidential order.
Sec. 226. Congressional response to low growth.
Sec. 227. Exemptions from sequestration.
Sec. 228. Submission of President's budget; maximum deficit amount may
not be exceeded.
TITLE III--BIENNIAL BUDGETARY AND APPROPRIATIONS
Sec. 301. Revision of timetable.
Sec. 302. Amendments to the Congressional Budget and Impoundment
Control Act of 1974.
Sec. 303. Amendments to title 31, United States Code.
Sec. 304. Two-year appropriations; title and style of appropriations
Acts.
Sec. 305. Multiyear authorizations.
Sec. 306. Government plans on a biennial basis.
Sec. 307. Biennial appropriation bills.
Sec. 308. Report on changes in law.
Sec. 309. Effective date.
TITLE IV--COMMISSIONS
Subtitle A--National Commission on Entitlement Solvency
Sec. 401. Definitions.
Sec. 402. Establishment of Commission.
Sec. 403. Expedited consideration of Commission recommendations.
Subtitle B--Commission on Congressional Budgetary Accountability and
Review of Federal Agencies
Sec. 411. Definitions.
Sec. 412. Establishment of Commission.
Sec. 413. Duties of the Commission.
Sec. 414. Powers of the Commission.
Sec. 415. Commission personnel matters.
Sec. 416. Expedited consideration of reform proposals.
Sec. 417. Termination of the Commission.
Sec. 418. Authorization of appropriations.
TITLE V--BUDGET PROCESS REFORMS
Sec. 501. Definitions.
Sec. 502. Annual Concurrent Resolution on the Budget.
Sec. 503. Committee allocations.
Sec. 504. Budget resolution adoption.
Sec. 505. Consideration of the budget resolution.
Sec. 506. Budget projections.
Sec. 507. Reconciliation.
Sec. 508. Budgeting levels.
Sec. 509. Determinations and points of order.
Sec. 510. Extraneous matter in reconciliation legislation.
Sec. 511. Adjustments.
Sec. 512. Direct spending limitation.
Sec. 513. Appropriations requests of the President.
SEC. 2. PURPOSES.
The purposes of this Act are--
(1) to enable the President and Congress to rescind
wasteful spending in an expedited manner;
(2) to effectively balance the budget by 2012;
(3) to reinstate statutory discretionary caps;
(4) to reduce the practice of using spending designated as
an ``emergency'' as a mechanism to circumvent spending caps;
(5) to establish targets for the deficit as its share of
the United States economy, specifically as a percentage of
Gross Domestic Product;
(6) to require automatic spending reduction reconciliation
directives to achieve annual deficit targets;
(7) to put in place automatic sequester procedures to
reduce discretionary and mandatory spending when either
statutory caps have been exceeded or deficit targets have not
been met;
(8) to require Congress to act upon legislation to ensure
the solvency of the Social Security and Medicare Programs;
(9) to require Congress to act upon legislation to identify
and eliminate waste and duplication in Federal programs;
(10) to establish biennial budgeting;
(11) to strengthen and improve the Congressional budget
resolution and reconciliation process; and
(12) to provide short term and long term solutions to
ensure the financial security of our nation so that our
children and grandchildren will not be saddled with
insurmountable debt.
SEC. 3. SEVERABILITY.
If any provision of this Act, an amendment made by this Act, or the
application of such provision or amendment to any person or
circumstance is held to be unconstitutional, the remainder of this Act,
the amendments made by this Act, and the application of the provisions
of such to any person or circumstance shall not be affected thereby.
TITLE I--LEGISLATIVE LINE ITEM VETO ACT OF 2006
SEC. 101. SHORT TITLE.
This title may be cited as the ``Legislative Line Item Veto Act of
2006''.
SEC. 102. LEGISLATIVE LINE ITEM VETO.
(a) In General.--Title X of the Congressional Budget and
Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 621 et seq.) is amended by
striking part C and inserting the following:
``Part C--Legislative Line Item Veto
``expedited consideration of certain proposed rescissions
``Sec. 1021. (a) Proposed Rescissions.--The President may send a
special message, at the time and in the manner provided in subsection
(b), that proposes to rescind dollar amounts of discretionary budget
authority, items of direct spending, and targeted tax benefits.
``(b) Transmittal of Special Message.--
``(1) Special message.--
``(A) In general.--
``(i) Four messages.--The President may
transmit to Congress not to exceed 4 special
messages per calendar year, proposing to
rescind dollar amounts of discretionary budget
authority, items of direct spending, and
targeted tax benefits.
``(ii) Timing.--Special messages may be
transmitted under clause (i)--
``(I) with the President's budget
submitted pursuant to section 1105 of
title 31, United States Code; and
``(II) 3 other times as determined
by the President.
``(iii) Limitations.--
``(I) In general.--Special messages
shall be submitted within 1 calendar
year of the date of enactment of any
dollar amount of discretionary budget
authority, item of direct spending, or
targeted tax benefit the President
proposes to rescind pursuant to this
Act.
``(II) Resubmittal.--If Congress
rejects or does not complete action on
a bill introduced under this Act, the
President may resubmit some or all of
the dollar amounts of discretionary
budget authority, items of direct
spending, and targeted tax benefits in
that bill in not more than 1 additional
special message under this part or part
B.
``(B) Contents of special message.--Each special
message shall specify, with respect to the dollar
amount of discretionary budget authority, item of
direct spending, or targeted tax benefit proposed to be
rescinded--
``(i) the dollar amount of discretionary
budget authority available and proposed for
rescission from accounts, departments, or
establishments of the government and the dollar
amount of the reduction in outlays that would
result from the enactment of such rescission of
discretionary budget authority for the time
periods set forth in subparagraph (A)(iii);
``(ii) the specific items of direct
spending and targeted tax benefits proposed for
rescission and the dollar amounts of the
reductions in budget authority and outlays or
increases in receipts that would result from
enactment of such rescission for the time
periods set forth in subparagraph (A)(iii);
``(iii) the budgetary effects of proposals
for rescission, estimated as of the date the
President submits the special message, relative
to the most recent levels calculated consistent
with the methodology described in section 257
of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit
Control Act of 1985 and included with a budget
submission under section 1105(a) of title 31,
United States Code, for the time periods of--
``(I) the fiscal year in which the
proposal is submitted; and
``(II) each of the 10 following
fiscal years beginning with the fiscal
year after the fiscal year in which the
proposal is submitted;
``(iv) any account, department, or
establishment of the Government to which such
dollar amount of discretionary budget authority
or item of direct spending is available for
obligation, and the specific project or
governmental functions involved;
``(v) the reasons why such dollar amount of
discretionary budget authority or item of
direct spending or targeted tax benefit should
be rescinded;
``(vi) the estimated fiscal and economic
impacts, of the proposed rescission;
``(vii) to the maximum extent practicable,
all facts, circumstances, and considerations
relating to or bearing upon the proposed
rescission and the decision to effect the
proposed rescission, and the estimated effect
of the proposed rescission upon the objects,
purposes, and programs for which the budget
authority or items of direct spending or
targeted tax benefits are provided; and
``(viii) a draft bill that, if enacted,
would rescind the budget authority, items of
direct spending and targeted tax benefits
proposed to be rescinded in that special
message.
``(2) Analysis by congressional budget office and joint
committee on taxation.--
``(A) In general.--Upon the receipt of a special
message under this section proposing to rescind dollar
amounts of discretionary budget authority, items of
direct spending, and targeted tax benefits--
``(i) the Director of the Congressional
Budget Office shall prepare an estimate of the
savings in budget authority or outlays
resulting from such proposed rescission and
shall include in its estimate, an analysis
prepared by the Joint Committee on Taxation
related to targeted tax benefits; and
``(ii) the Director of the Joint Committee
on Taxation shall prepare an estimate and
forward such estimate to the Congressional
Budget Office, of the savings from repeal of
targeted tax benefits.
``(B) Methodology.--The estimates required by
subparagraph (A) shall be made relative to the most
recent levels calculated consistent with the
methodology used to calculate a baseline under section
257 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Control Act of
1985 and included with a budget submission under
section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code, and
transmitted to the chairmen of the Committees on the
Budget of the House of Representatives and Senate.
``(3) Enactment of rescission bill.--
``(A) Deficit reduction.--Amounts of budget
authority or items of direct spending or targeted tax
benefit that are rescinded pursuant to enactment of a
bill as provided under this section shall be dedicated
only to deficit reduction and shall not be used as an
offset for other spending increases or revenue
reductions.
``(B) Adjustment of budget targets.--Not later than
5 days after the date of enactment of a rescission bill
as provided under this section, the chairs of the
Committees on the Budget of the Senate and the House of
Representatives shall revise spending and revenue
levels under section 311(a) of the Congressional Budget
Act of 1974 and adjust the committee allocations under
section 302(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974
or any other adjustments as may be appropriate to
reflect the rescission. The adjustments shall reflect
the budgetary effects of such rescissions as estimated
by the President pursuant to paragraph (1)(B)(iii). The
appropriate committees shall report revised allocations
pursuant to section 302(b) of the Congressional Budget
Act of 1974. Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, the revised allocations and aggregates shall be
considered to have been made under a concurrent
resolution on the budget agreed to under the
Congressional Budget Act of 1974 and shall be enforced
under the procedures of that Act.
``(C) Adjustments to caps.--After enactment of a
rescission bill as provided under this section, the
President shall revise applicable limits under the Stop
Over Spending Act of 2006, as appropriate.
``(c) Procedures for Expedited Consideration.--
``(1) In general.--
``(A) Introduction.--Before the close of the second
day of session of the Senate and the House of
Representatives, respectively, after the date of
receipt of a special message transmitted to Congress
under subsection (b), the majority leader of each
House, for himself, or minority leader of each House,
for himself, or a Member of that House designated by
that majority leader or minority leader shall introduce
(by request) the President's draft bill to rescind the
amounts of budget authority or items of direct spending
or targeted tax benefits, as specified in the special
message and the President's draft bill. If the bill is
not introduced as provided in the preceding sentence in
either House, then, on the third day of session of that
House after the date of receipt of that special
message, any Member of that House may introduce the
bill.
``(B) Referral and reporting.--
``(i) One committee.--The bill shall be
referred by the presiding officer to the
appropriate committee. The committee shall
report the bill without any revision and with a
favorable, an unfavorable, or without
recommendation, not later than the fifth day of
session of that House after the date of
introduction of the bill in that House. If the
committee fails to report the bill within that
period, the committee shall be automatically
discharged from consideration of the bill, and
the bill shall be placed on the appropriate
calendar.
``(ii) Multiple committees.--
``(I) Referrals.--If a bill
contains provisions in the jurisdiction
of more than 1 committee, the bill
shall be jointly referred to the
committees of jurisdiction and the
Committee on the Budget.
``(II) Views of committee.--Any
committee, other than the Committee on
the Budget, to which a bill is referred
under this clause may submit a
favorable, an unfavorable
recommendation, without recommendation
with respect to the bill to the
Committee on the Budget prior to the
reporting or discharge of the bill.
``(III) Reporting.--The Committee
on the Budget shall report the bill not
later than the fifth day of session of
that House after the date of
introduction of the bill in that House,
without any revision and with a
favorable or unfavorable
recommendation, or without
recommendation, together with the
recommendations of any committee to
which the bill has been referred.
``(IV) Discharge.--If the Committee
on the Budget fails to report the bill
within that period, the committee shall
be automatically discharged from
consideration of the bill, and the bill
shall be placed on the appropriate
calendar.
``(C) Final passage.--A vote on final passage of
the bill shall be taken in the Senate and the House of
Representatives on or before the close of the 10th day
of session of that House after the date of the
introduction of the bill in that House. If the bill is
passed, the Clerk of the House of Representatives shall
cause the bill to be transmitted to the Senate before
the close of the next day of session of the House.
``(2) Consideration in the house of representatives.--
``(A) Motion to proceed to consideration.--A motion
in the House of Representatives to proceed to the
consideration of a bill under this subsection shall be
highly privileged and not debatable. An amendment to
the motion shall not be in order, nor shall it be in
order to move to reconsider the vote by which the
motion is agreed to or disagreed to.
``(B) Limits on debate.--Debate in the House of
Representatives on a bill under this subsection shall
not exceed 4 hours, which shall be divided equally
between those favoring and those opposing the bill. A
motion further to limit debate shall not be debatable.
It shall not be in order to move to recommit a bill
under this subsection or to move to reconsider the vote
by which the bill is agreed to or disagreed to.
``(C) Appeals.--Appeals from decisions of the chair
relating to the application of the Rules of the House
of Representatives to the procedure relating to a bill
under this section shall be decided without debate.
``(D) Application of house rules.--Except to the
extent specifically provided in this section,
consideration of a bill under this section shall be
governed by the Rules of the House of Representatives.
It shall not be in order in the House of
Representatives to consider any bill introduced
pursuant to the provisions of this section under a
suspension of the rules or under a special rule.
``(3) Consideration in the senate.--
``(A) Motion to proceed to consideration.--A motion
to proceed to the consideration of a bill under this
subsection in the Senate shall not be debatable. A
motion to proceed to consideration of the bill may be
made even though a previous motion to the same effect
has been disagreed to. It shall not be in order to move
to reconsider the vote by which the motion to proceed
is agreed to or disagreed to.
``(B) Limits on debate.--Debate in the Senate on a
bill under this subsection, and all debatable motions
and appeals in connection therewith, shall not exceed a
total of 10 hours, equally divided and controlled in
the usual form.
``(C) Debatable motions and appeals.--Debate in the
Senate on any debatable motion or appeal in connection
with a bill under this subsection shall be limited to
not more than 1 hour from the time allotted for debate,
to be equally divided and controlled in the usual form.
``(D) Motion to limit debate.--A motion in the
Senate to further limit debate on a bill under this
subsection is not debatable.
``(E) Motion to recommit.--A motion to recommit a
bill under this subsection is not in order.
``(F) Consideration of the house bill.--
``(i) In general.--If the Senate has
received the House companion bill to the bill
introduced in the Senate prior to the vote
required under paragraph (1)(C), then the
Senate shall consider, and the vote under
paragraph (1)(C) shall occur on, the House
companion bill.
``(ii) Procedure after vote on senate
bill.--If the Senate votes, pursuant to
paragraph (1)(C), on the bill introduced in the
Senate, the Senate bill shall be held pending
receipt of the House message on the bill. Upon
receipt of the House companion bill, the House
bill shall be deemed to be considered, read for
the third time, and the vote on passage of the
Senate bill shall be considered to be the vote
on the bill received from the House.
``(d) Amendments and Divisions Prohibited.--
``(1) In general.--No amendment to a bill considered under
this section shall be in order in either the Senate or the
House of Representatives.
``(2) No division.--It shall not be in order to demand a
division of the question in the House of Representatives (or in
a Committee of the Whole).
``(3) No suspension.--No motion to suspend the application
of this subsection shall be in order in the House of
Representatives, nor shall it be in order in either the House
of Representatives or the Senate to suspend the application of
this subsection by unanimous consent.
``(e) Temporary Presidential Authority To Withhold.--
``(1) Availability.--The President may not withhold any
dollar amount of discretionary budget authority until the
President transmits and Congress receives a special message
pursuant to subsection (b). Upon receipt by Congress of a
special message pursuant to subsection (b), the President may
direct that any dollar amount of discretionary budget authority
proposed to be rescinded in that special message shall be
withheld from obligation for a period not to exceed 45 calendar
days from the date of receipt by Congress.
``(2) Early availability.--The President may make any
dollar amount of discretionary budget authority withheld from
obligation pursuant to paragraph (1) available at an earlier
time if the President determines that continued withholding
would not further the purposes of this Act.
``(f) Temporary Presidential Authority To Suspend.--
``(1) Suspend.--The President may not suspend the execution
of any item of direct spending or targeted tax benefit until
the President transmits and Congress receives a special message
pursuant to subsection (b). Upon receipt by Congress of a
special message, the President may suspend the execution of any
item of direct spending or targeted tax benefit proposed to be
rescinded in that message for a period not to exceed 45
calendar days from the date of receipt by Congress.
``(2) Early availability.--The President may terminate the
suspension of any item of direct spending or targeted tax
benefit suspended pursuant to paragraph (1) at an earlier time
if the President determines that continuation of the suspension
would not further the purposes of this Act.
``(g) Definitions.--In this section:
``(1) Appropriation law.--The term `appropriation law'
means any general or special appropriation Act, and any Act or
joint resolution making supplemental, deficiency, or continuing
appropriations.
``(2) Calendar day.--The term `calendar day' means a
standard 24-hour period beginning at midnight.
``(3) Days of session.--The term `days of session' means
only those days on which both Houses of Congress are in
session.
``(4) Dollar amount of discretionary budget authority.--The
term `dollar amount of discretionary budget authority' means
the dollar amount of budget authority and obligation
limitations--
``(A) specified in an appropriation law, or the
dollar amount of budget authority required to be
allocated by a specific proviso in an appropriation law
for which a specific dollar figure was not included;
``(B) represented separately in any table, chart,
or explanatory text included in the statement of
managers or the governing committee report accompanying
such law;
``(C) required to be allocated for a specific
program, project, or activity in a law (other than an
appropriation law) that mandates obligations from or
within accounts, programs, projects, or activities for
which budget authority or an obligation limitation is
provided in an appropriation law;
``(D) represented by the product of the estimated
procurement cost and the total quantity of items
specified in an appropriation law or included in the
statement of managers or the governing committee report
accompanying such law; or
``(E) represented by the product of the estimated
procurement cost and the total quantity of items
required to be provided in a law (other than an
appropriation law) that mandates obligations from
accounts, programs, projects, or activities for which
dollar amount of discretionary budget authority or an
obligation limitation is provided in an appropriation
law.
``(5) Rescind or rescission.--The term `rescind' or
`rescission' means--
``(A) in the case of a dollar amount of
discretionary budget authority, to reduce or repeal a
provision of law to prevent that budget authority or
obligation limitation from having legal force or
effect; and
``(B) in the case of direct spending or targeted
tax benefit, to repeal a provision of law in order to
prevent the specific legal obligation of the United
States from having legal force or effect.
``(6) Direct spending.--The term `direct spending' means
budget authority provided by law (other than an appropriation
law), mandatory spending provided in appropriation Acts, and
entitlement authority.
``(7) Item of direct spending.--The term `item of direct
spending' means any specific provision of law enacted after the
effective date of the Legislative Line Item Veto Act of 2006
that is estimated to result in an increase in budget authority
or outlays for direct spending relative to the most recent
levels calculated consistent with the methodology described in
section 257 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit
Control Act of 1985 and included with a budget submission under
section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code, and, with
respect to estimates made after that budget submission that are
not included with it, estimates consistent with the economic
and technical assumptions underlying the most recently
submitted President's budget.
``(8) Suspend the execution.--The term `suspend the
execution' means, with respect to an item of direct spending or
a targeted tax benefit, to stop the carrying into effect of the
specific provision of law that provides such benefit; and
``(9) Targeted tax benefit.--The term `targeted tax
benefit' means only those provisions--
``(A) estimated by the Joint Committee on Taxation
to result in a loss of revenues relative to the most
recent levels calculated consistent with the
methodology described in section 257 of the Balanced
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 and
included with a budget submission under section 1105(a)
of title 31, United States Code, and with respect to
estimates made after that budget submission that are
not included with it, estimates consistent with the
economic and technical assumptions underlying the most
recently submitted President's budget; and
``(B) having the practical effect of providing more
favorable tax treatment to a particular taxpayer or
limited group of taxpayers when compared with other
similarly situated taxpayers.
``(h) Congressional Identification of Targeted Tax Benefits.--
``(1) Statement by joint tax committee.--The Joint
Committee on Taxation shall review any revenue or
reconciliation bill or joint resolution which includes any
amendment to the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 that is being
prepared for filing by a committee of conference of the 2
Houses, and shall identify, prior to consideration of such
conference report, whether such bill or joint resolution
contains any targeted tax benefits. The Joint Committee on
Taxation shall provide to the committee of conference a
statement identifying any such targeted tax benefits or
declaring that the bill or joint resolution does not contain
any targeted tax benefits. The statement shall be included in
the statement of managers to accompany such conference report
and made available to any Member of Congress by the Joint
Committee on Taxation immediately upon request.
``(2) Statement included in legislation.--Notwithstanding
any other rule of the House of Representatives or any rule or
precedent of the Senate, any revenue or reconciliation bill or
joint resolution, which includes any amendment to the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986 reported by a committee of conference of
the House of Representatives and the Senate, may include, as a
separate section of such bill or joint resolution, the
information contained in the statement of the Joint Committee
on Taxation.''.
(b) Exercise of Rulemaking Powers.--Section 904 of the
Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 621 note) is amended--
(1) in subsection (a), by striking ``and 1017'' and
inserting ``1017, and 1021''; and
(2) in subsection (d), by striking ``section 1017'' and
inserting ``sections 1017 and 1021''.
(c) Clerical Amendments.--
(1) Short title.--Section 1(a) of the Congressional Budget
and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 is amended by--
(A) striking ``Parts A and B'' before ``title X''
and inserting ``Parts A, B, and C''; and
(B) striking the last sentence and inserting at the
end the following new sentence: ``Part C of title X
also may be cited as the `Legislative Line Item Veto
Act of 2006'.''.
(2) Table of contents.--The table of contents set forth in
section 1(b) of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment
Control Act of 1974 is amended by deleting the contents for
part C of title X and inserting the following:
``Part C--Legislative Line Item Veto
``Sec. 1021. Expedited consideration of certain proposed
rescissions.''.
(d) Severability.--If any provision of this Act or the amendments
made by it is held to be unconstitutional, the remainder of this Act
and the amendments made by it shall not be affected by the holding.
(e) Effective Date and Expiration.--
(1) Effective date.--The amendments made by this Act
shall--
(A) take effect on the date of enactment of this
Act; and
(B) apply to any dollar amount of discretionary
budget authority, item of direct spending, or targeted
tax benefit provided in an Act enacted on or after
September 1, 2006.
(2) Expiration.--The amendments made by this Act shall
expire on December 31, 2010.
TITLE II--DEFICIT REDUCTION
Subtitle A--Definitions, Administration, and Sequestration
SEC. 201. DEFINITIONS.
In this subtitle:
(1) Account.--The term ``account'' means--
(A) for discretionary budget authority, an item for
which appropriations are made in any appropriation Act;
and
(B) for items not provided for in appropriation
Acts, direct spending and outlays therefrom identified
in the program and finance schedules contained in the
appendix to the Budget of the United States for the
current year.
(2) Breach.--The term ``breach'' means, for any fiscal
year, the amount by which discretionary budget authority
enacted for that year exceeds the spending limit for budget
authority for that year.
(3) Budget authority; new budget authority; and outlays.--
The terms ``budget authority'', ``new budget authority'', and
``outlays'' have the meanings given to such terms in section 3
of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974
(2 U.S.C. 622). For purposes of subtitle B an obligation
limitation shall be treated as budget authority.
(4) Budget year.--The term ``budget year'' means, with
respect to a session of Congress, the fiscal year of the
Government that starts on October 1 of the calendar year in
which that session begins.
(5) CBO.--The term ``CBO'' means the Director of the
Congressional Budget Office.
(6) Current.--The term ``current'' means--
(A) with respect to the Office of Management and
Budget estimates included with a budget submission
under section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code,
the estimates consistent with the economic and
technical assumptions underlying that budget;
(B) with respect to estimates made after that
budget submission that are not included with it, the
estimates consistent with the economic and technical
assumptions underlying the most recently submitted
President's budget; and
(C) with respect to the Congressional Budget
Office, estimates consistent with the economic and
technical assumptions as required by section 202(e)(1)
of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974.
(7) Current year.--The term ``current year'' means, with
respect to a budget year, the fiscal year that immediately
precedes that budget year.
(8) Deficit.--The term ``deficit'' means, with respect to
any fiscal year, the amount by which total budget outlays for
such fiscal year exceed total governmental receipts for such
fiscal year. In calculating the deficit for purposes of
comparison with the maximum deficit amount under section 221
and in calculating the excess deficit for purposes of subtitle
C (notwithstanding section 710(a) of the Social Security Act
(42 U.S.C. 911)) for any fiscal year, the receipts of the
Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the
Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund for such fiscal year
and the taxes payable under sections 1401(a), 3101(a), and
3111(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 (26 U.S.C. 1401,
3101, 3111) during such fiscal year shall be included in total
revenues for such fiscal year, and the disbursements of each
such Trust Fund for such fiscal year shall be included in total
budget outlays for such fiscal year. Notwithstanding any other
provision of law except to the extent provided by section
710(a) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 911) the receipts,
revenues, disbursements, budget authority, and outlays of each
off-budget Federal entity for a fiscal year shall be included
in total budget authority, total budget outlays, and total
revenues and the amounts of budget authority and outlays set
forth for each major functional category, for such fiscal year.
(9) Direct spending.--The term ``direct spending'' shall
have the meaning given such term in section 3(3) of the
Congressional Budget Act of 1974.
(10) Discretionary budget authority.--The term
``discretionary budget authority'' means budgetary authority
(except to fund mandatory programs) provided in appropriation
Acts.
(11) Discretionary spending limit.--The term
``discretionary spending limit'' shall mean the amounts
specified in section 212.
(12) Excess deficit amount.--The term ``excess deficit
amount'', with respect to any fiscal year, means the amount of
the deficit reduced by the estimated reductions of outlays
resulting from any sequestration in subtitle C, that exceeds
the maximum deficit amount.
(13) OMB.--The term ``OMB'' means the Director of the
Office of Management and Budget.
(14) Sequestration.--The term ``sequestration'' --
(A) with respect to discretionary budget authority,
means the cancellation or reduction of budget authority
(except budget authority to fund mandatory programs)
provided in appropriation Acts; and
(B) with respect to the excess deficit amount,
means the amount cancelled or reduced from direct
spending and outlays flowing therefrom.
SEC. 202. ADMINISTRATION, RECONCILIATION, AND EFFECT OF SEQUESTRATION.
(a) Timetable.--The timetable with respect to this title is as
follows:
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Date Action to be completed
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5 days before the President's CBO Discretionary Sequestration and
budget submission Maximum Deficit Amount Preview
Report.
The President's budget submission OMB Discretionary Sequestration and
Maximum Deficit Amount Preview
Report.
August 15 CBO Discretionary Sequestration and
Maximum Deficit Amount
Reconciliation Report.
August 20 OMB Discretionary Sequestration and
Maximum Deficit Amount
Reconciliation Report.
September 15 Budget Committee Reconciliation
Directives.
20 days after Budget Committee Committees Respond to
Action Reconciliation Directives
10 days after end of session CBO Final Discretionary
Sequestration and Maximum Deficit
Amount Sequestration Report.
15 days after end of session OMB Final Discretionary
Sequestration and Maximum Deficit
Amount Sequestration Report/
Presidential Sequestration Order.
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(b) Presidential Order.--On the date specified in subsection (a),
if in its Final Sequestration Report, OMB estimates that any
sequestration is required, the President shall issue an order fully
implementing without change all sequestrations required by the OMB
calculations set forth in that report. This order shall be effective on
issuance.
(c) Effects of Sequestration.--The effects of sequestration shall
be as follows:
(1) Budgetary resources sequestered from any account shall
be permanently cancelled, except as provided in paragraph (5).
(2) Except as otherwise provided, the same percentage
sequestration shall apply to all programs, projects, and
activities within a budget account (with programs, projects,
and activities as delineated in the appropriation Act or
accompanying report for the relevant fiscal year covering that
account).
(3) Administrative regulations or similar actions
implementing a sequestration shall be made within 120 days of
the sequestration order. To the extent that formula allocations
differ at different levels of budgetary resources within an
account, program, project, or activity, the sequestration shall
be interpreted as producing a lower total appropriation, with
the remaining amount of the appropriation being obligated in a
manner consistent with program allocation formulas in
substantive law.
(4) Except as otherwise provided in this subtitle,
obligations or budgetary resources in sequestered accounts
shall be reduced only in the fiscal year in which a sequester
occurs.
(5) Budgetary resources sequestered in special fund
accounts and offsetting collections sequestered in
appropriation accounts shall not be available for obligation
during the fiscal year in which the sequestration occurs, but
shall be available in subsequent years to the extent otherwise
provided in law.
(d) Submission and Availability of Reports.--Each report required
by this section shall be submitted, in the case of CBO, to the House of
Representatives, the Senate, and OMB and, in the case of OMB, to the
House of Representatives, the Senate, and the President on the day it
is issued. On the following day a notice of the report shall be printed
in the Federal Register.
SEC. 203. GAO COMPLIANCE REPORT.
Upon request of the Committee on the Budget of the House of
Representatives or the Senate, the Comptroller General shall submit to
the Congress and the President a report on--
(1) the extent to which each order issued by the President
under this title complies with all of the requirements
contained in this title, either certifying that the order fully
and accurately complies with such requirements or indicating
the respects in which it does not; and
(2) the extent to which each report issued by OMB or CBO
under this section complies with all of the requirements
contained in this title, either certifying that the report
fully and accurately complies with such requirements or
indicating the respects in which it does not.
Subtitle B--Discretionary Spending Limits
SEC. 211. DISCRETIONARY SEQUESTRATION REPORTS.
(a) Discretionary Sequestration Preview Reports.--
(1) Reporting requirement.--
(A) In general.--On the dates specified in section
202(a), OMB shall report to the President and Congress
and CBO shall report to Congress a Discretionary
Sequestration Preview Report regarding discretionary
sequestration based on laws enacted through those
dates.
(B) President's budget.--When the President submits
the budget under section 1105 of title 31, United
States Code, OMB shall calculate and the budget shall
include adjustments to discretionary spending limits
(and those limits as cumulatively adjusted) for the
budget year and each outyear to reflect changes in
concepts and definitions.
(C) Consultation.--Any determination or change
under subparagraph (B) may only be made after
consultation with the Committees on Appropriations and
the Budget of the House of Representatives and the
Senate, and that consultation shall include written
communication to such committees that affords such
committees the opportunity to comment before official
action is taken with respect to such changes.
(2) Discretionary.--The Discretionary Sequestration Preview
Report shall set forth estimates for the current year and each
subsequent year through 2009 of the applicable discretionary
spending limits and an explanation of any adjustments in such
limits under section 212, and a projection of budget authority
exceeding discretionary caps subject to sequester.
(3) Explanation of differences.--The OMB reports shall
explain the differences between OMB and CBO estimates for each
item set forth in this subsection.
(b) Discretionary Sequestration Reports.--On the dates specified in
section 202(a), OMB and CBO shall issue Discretionary Sequestration
Reports, reflecting laws enacted through those dates, containing all of
the information required in the Discretionary Sequestration Preview
Reports.
(c) Final Discretionary Sequestration Reports.--
(1) Reporting requirements.--On the dates specified in
section 202(a), OMB and CBO shall each issue a Final
Discretionary Sequestration Report, updated to reflect laws
enacted through those dates.
(2) Discretionary spending.--The Final Discretionary
Sequestration Reports shall set forth estimates for each of the
following:
(A) For the current year and each subsequent year
through 2009; the applicable discretionary spending
limits.
(B) For the current year, if applicable, and the
budget year; the new budget authority and the breach,
if any.
(C) The sequestration percentages necessary to
eliminate the breach.
(D) For the budget year, for each account to be
sequestered, the level of enacted, sequesterable budget
authority and resulting estimated outlays to be
sequestered.
(3) Explanation of differences.--The OMB report shall
explain any differences between OMB and CBO estimates for any
breach and any required discretionary sequestration
percentages. The OMB report shall also explain differences in
the amount of sequesterable resources for any budget account to
be reduced if such difference is greater than $5,000,000.
(d) Economic and Technical Assumptions.--In all reports required by
this section, OMB shall use the same economic and technical assumptions
as used in the most recent budget submitted by the President under
section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code.
(e) Adjustments.--When OMB submits a report under this section for
a fiscal year, OMB shall calculate, and the subsequent reports and
budgets submitted by the President under section 1105(a) of title 31,
United States Code shall include, adjustments to discretionary spending
limits (and those limits as adjusted) for the fiscal year and each
succeeding year.
SEC. 212. LIMITS.
(a) Discretionary Spending Limits.--As used in this subtitle, the
term ``discretionary spending limit'' means--
(1) with respect to fiscal year 2007, $872,504,000,000 in
new budget authority;
(2) with respect to fiscal year 2008, $895,358,000,000 in
new budget authority;
(3) with respect to fiscal year 2009, $919,516,000,000 in
new budget authority; and
(4) with respect to fiscal years following 2009, The
President shall recommend and the Congress shall consider
legislation setting limits for those fiscal years.
(b) Adjustments.--
(1) Emergency spending.--If, for fiscal year 2007, 2008, or
2009, appropriations for discretionary accounts are enacted
that the President designates as emergency requirements, and
that the Congress so designates in statute, the adjustment
shall be the total of such appropriations in discretionary
accounts designated as emergency requirements, but not to
exceed $90,000,000,000 for fiscal year 2007, $50,000,000,000
for 2008, and $30,000,000,000 for 2009. Appropriations
designated as emergencies in excess of these limitations shall
be treated as new budget authority for the purpose of
calculating a breach of the discretionary spending limits.
(2) Federal tax gap initiative.--If an appropriation bill
or joint resolution is enacted for fiscal year 2007, 2008, or
2009, that includes $6,824,000,000 plus an additional amount
for the enhanced tax enforcement initiative of the Internal
Revenue Service, the adjustment shall be the amount of budget
authority in that measure for that initiative but not to
exceed--
(A) with respect to fiscal year 2007, $274,000,000
in new budget authority;
(B) with respect to fiscal year 2008, $414,000,000
in new budget authority; and
(C) with respect to fiscal year 2009, $554,000,000
in new budget authority.
(c) Enforcement.--
(1) Sequestration.--On the date specified in section
202(a), there shall be a sequestration to eliminate a budget-
year breach.
(2) Eliminating a breach.--Each account shall be reduced by
a dollar amount calculated by multiplying the enacted level of
budget authority for that year in that account at that time by
the uniform percentage necessary to eliminate a breach of the
discretionary spending limit.
(3) Part-year appropriations.--If, on the date the report
is issued under paragraph (1), there is in effect an Act making
continuing appropriations for part of a fiscal year for any
budget account, then the dollar sequestration calculated for
that account under paragraph (2) shall be subtracted from--
(A) the annualized amount otherwise available by
law in that account under that or a subsequent part-
year appropriation; and
(B) when a full-year appropriation for that account
is enacted, from the amount otherwise provided by the
full-year appropriation.
(4) Look-back.--If, after June 30, an appropriation for the
fiscal year in progress is enacted that causes a breach for
that year (after taking into account any previous
sequestration), the discretionary spending limit for the next
fiscal year shall be reduced by the amount of that breach.
(5) Within-session sequestration reports and order.--If an
appropriation for a fiscal year in progress is enacted (after
Congress adjourns to end the session for that budget year and
before July 1 of that fiscal year) that causes a breach, 10
days later CBO shall issue a report containing the information
required in section 211(c). Fifteen days after enactment, OMB
shall issue a report containing the information required in
section 211(c). On the same day as the OMB report, the
President shall issue an order fully implementing without
change all sequestrations required by the OMB calculations set
forth in that report. This order shall be effective on
issuance.
(d) Estimates.--
(1) CBO estimates.--As soon as practicable after Congress
completes action on any legislation providing discretionary
appropriations, CBO shall provide an estimate to OMB of that
legislation.
(2) OMB estimates.--Not later than 7 calendar days
(excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays) after the
date of enactment of any discretionary appropriations, OMB
shall transmit a report to the House of Representatives and to
the Senate containing--
(A) the CBO estimate of that legislation;
(B) an OMB estimate of that legislation using
current economic and technical assumptions; and
(C) an explanation of any difference between the 2
estimates.
(3) Differences.--If during the preparation of the report
under paragraph (2), OMB determines that there is a difference
between the OMB and CBO estimates, OMB shall consult with the
Committees on the Budget of the House of Representatives and
the Senate regarding that difference and that consultation, to
the extent practicable, shall include written communication to
such committees that affords such committees the opportunity to
comment before the issuance of that report.
(4) Assumptions and guidelines.--OMB and CBO shall prepare
estimates under this paragraph in conformance with scorekeeping
guidelines determined after consultation among the House and
Senate Committees on the Budget, CBO, and OMB.
Subtitle C--Maximum Deficit Amount Limitation
SEC. 221. MAXIMUM DEFICIT AMOUNT.
In this subtitle, the term ``maximum deficit amount'' means--
(1) with respect to 2007, equals 2.75 percent of the Gross
Domestic Product for 2007, as estimated by OMB for 2007;
(2) with respect to 2008, equals 2.25 percent of the Gross
Domestic Product for 2008, as estimated by OMB for 2008;
(3) with respect to 2009, equals 1.75 percent of the Gross
Domestic Product for 2009, as estimated by OMB for 2009;
(4) with respect to 2010, equals 1.25 percent of the Gross
Domestic Product for 2010, as estimated by OMB for 2010;
(5) with respect to 2011, equals 0.75 percent of the Gross
Domestic Product for 2011, as estimated by OMB for 2011; and
(6) with respect to 2012 and thereafter, equals 0.5 percent
of Gross Domestic Product for 2012 and thereafter, as estimated
by OMB for 2012, and thereafter.
SEC. 222. REPORTING OF EXCESS DEFICITS.
(a) Maximum Deficit Amount Preview Report by OMB and CBO.--
(1) Estimates and determinations.--On the dates specified
in section 202(a), OMB and CBO shall with respect to each
fiscal year estimate--
(A) the deficit;
(B) the maximum deficit amount; and
(C) any excess deficit amount for the budget year.
(2) Report.--OMB shall report to the President and Congress
and CBO shall report to Congress estimating the budget base
levels of total revenues and total budget outlays for the
budget year, identifying the deficit, the maximum deficit
amount, and the amount of any deficit excess for such fiscal
year, the base from which direct spending reductions are taken
and the amounts and percentages by which such direct spending
accounts must be reduced for the budget year, in accordance
with the succeeding provisions of this part, in order to
eliminate such excess based on laws enacted through those
dates.
(3) Determination of reductions.--The amounts and
percentages by which accounts must be reduced for the budget
year shall be determined by, subject to the exemptions set
forth in section 227, the reductions necessary to eliminate the
excess deficit amount for the fiscal year.
(4) Basis for directors' estimates, determinations, and
specifications.--
(A) Budget base.--In computing the amounts and
percentages by which accounts must be reduced during a
fiscal year as set forth in the report required under
paragraph (2) for such fiscal year, OMB and CBO shall
use current economic and technical assumptions
consistent with the methodology set forth in section
257 of the Balanced Budget and Enforcement Deficit
Control Act of 1985.
(B) Deferrals and rescissions.--Deferrals and
rescissions proposed under the Impoundment Control Act
of 1974 for the budget year shall not be taken into
account in determining such budget base.
(C) Explanation of differences.--The OMB shall
explain the differences between OMB and CBO estimates
for each item in the report.
(b) Revised Estimates and Maximum Deficit Amount Reconciliation
Reports.--
(1) Reconciliation report by omb and cbo.--On the date
specified in section 202(a), the Director of OMB shall submit
to the President and Congress, and the Director of CBO shall
submit to Congress, a revised report--
(A) indicating whether and to what extent, as a
result of laws enacted and regulations promulgated
after the submission of their maximum deficit amount
preview report under subsection (a), the excess deficit
identified in the report submitted under such
subsection has been eliminated, reduced, or increased;
and
(B) adjusting the determinations for the effects of
any discretionary sequestration that may be required
under subtitle B.
The reconciliation report submitted under this paragraph shall
contain estimates, determinations, and specifications for all
of the items contained in the preview report and the OMB report
shall be based on the same economic and technical assumptions
and employ the same methodologies as applied in the
supplemental budget estimates submitted under section 1106 of
title 31, United States Code, and the CBO report shall be based
on the most recent report required by section 202(e)(2) of the
Congressional Budget Act of 1974. Estimates shall be consistent
with methodology in section 257 of the Balanced Budget and
Enforcement Act Deficit Control Act of 1985. The reports shall
provide for the determination of reductions in the manner
specified in subsection (a)(3).
(2) Explanation of differences.--The OMB shall explain the
differences between OMB and CBO estimates for each item in the
reconciliation report.
(c) Dates for Submission of Reports and Issuance of Orders.--If the
date specified for the submission of a report by the Director of OMB
under this section falls on a Sunday or legal holiday, such report
shall be submitted or such order issued on the following day.
(d) Printing of Reports.--Each report submitted under this section
shall be printed in the Federal Register on the date it is issued; and
the reports of the Director of OMB submitted to the Congress under
subsection (b) shall be printed as documents of the House of
Representatives and the Senate.
SEC. 223. CONGRESSIONAL RESPONSE TO OMB AND CBO RECONCILIATION REPORT.
(a) Reporting of Resolutions, and Reconciliation Bills and
Resolutions, in the Senate.--
(1) Committee alternatives to presidential order.--For the
purpose of assisting the Committees on the Budget of the House
and Senate in preparing Reconciliation Directive Reports under
paragraph (3) and not later than 20 days after the submission
of the OMB Reconciliation Report, each standing committee of
the House and Senate may submit to the Committees on the Budget
of the House and Senate information of the type described in
section 301(d) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 with
respect to alternatives to the order envisioned by such report
insofar as such order affects laws within the jurisdiction of
the committee.
(2) CBA.--Sections 305 and 310 of the Congressional Budget
Act of 1974 shall apply to any bill considered under this
section, except as otherwise provided in this section.
(3) Reconciliation directives.--On the date specified in
section 202(a), the Chairmen of the Committees on the Budget of
the House and Senate shall submit a Reconciliation Directive
Report to the President of the Senate or the Speaker of the
House for appropriate referral to the committees of its House,
the OMB Reconciliation Report containing the maximum deficit
amount and the excess deficit and reconciliation directives.
Such directives shall--
(A) specify the total amount by which--
(i) direct spending budget authority and
outlays for such fiscal year; and
(ii) governmental receipts, other than
income taxes, estate and gift taxes, excise
taxes, payroll taxes, or tariffs, for such
fiscal year, are to be changed; and
(B) include directives to committees to recommend
changes in laws within their jurisdiction to accomplish
the total amount of deficit reduction necessary to
eliminate the excess deficit so that the deficit does
not exceed the maximum deficit amount set forth in the
OMB Reconciliation Report.
(4) Response of committees.--Committees directed pursuant
to paragraph (3), shall submit their recommendations to comply
with the directives to the Budget Committee no later than 20
days after the directives referred to in paragraph (3) are
issued.
(5) Budget committee action.--Upon receipt of the
recommendations received in response to directives referred to
in paragraph (3), the Budget Committees shall report to the
House and Senate, a reconciliation bill carrying out all such
recommendations.
(b) Legislative Procedure.--If a Reconciliation Directive Report
containing reconciliation directives to 1 or more committees to
determine and recommend changes in laws, bills, or resolutions is
issued in accordance with subsection (a)(3)--
(1) each such committee so directed shall make such
recommendations to the Committee on the Budget of its House,
which upon receiving all such recommendations, shall report to
its House reconciliation legislation carrying out all such
recommendations without any substantive revision; and
(2) in the event that any committee fails to comply with
its directive, then the Committees on the Budget may report
amendments recommending changes within the jurisdiction of the
noncompliant committee to achieve the changes contained in the
directive.
(c) Adjustment of Budget Targets.--Upon enactment of a
reconciliation bill conference report, the chairmen of the Committees
on the Budget of the Senate and the House of Representatives shall
revise spending and revenue levels under section 311(a) of the
Congressional Budget Act of 1974 and adjust the committee allocations
under section 302(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, or any
other adjustments as may be appropriate to reflect any changes made in
the reconciliation bill. Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
the revised allocations and aggregates shall be considered to have been
made under a concurrent resolution on the budget agreed to under the
Congressional Budget Act of 1974, and shall be enforced under the
procedures of that Act.
(d) Compliance With Reconciliation Directives.--Secondary or
indirect effects of the legislative recommendations submitted by any
committee of the House of Representatives or the Senate that is
directed, shall be attributed to the committee proposing the change in
law, but shall not be considered for the purpose of determining
compliance with such directives.
(e) Limitation on Amendments to Reconciliation Bills.--
(1) House of representatives.--It shall not be in order in
the House of Representatives to consider any amendment to a
reconciliation bill if such amendment would have the effect of
increasing any specific budget outlays above the level of such
outlays provided in the bill (for the fiscal years covered by
the reconciliation directives), or would have the effect of
reducing any specific governmental receipts below the level of
such governmental receipts provided in the bill (for such
fiscal year), unless such amendment makes at least an
equivalent reduction in other specific budget outlays, an
equivalent increase in other specific governmental receipts, or
an equivalent combination thereof (for such fiscal year).
(2) Senate.--It shall not be in order in the Senate to
consider any amendment to a reconciliation bill if such
amendment would have the effect of increasing any specific
budget outlay level above the level of such outlay reductions
provided (for the fiscal year covered) in the reconciliation
directives or would have the effect of reducing governmental
receipts increases below the level of such increases in such
governmental receipts provided (for such fiscal year) in the
reconciliation directives, unless such amendment makes a
reduction in other specific budget outlays, an increase in
other specific governmental receipts, or a combination thereof
(for such fiscal year) at least equivalent to any increase in
outlays or decrease in governmental receipts provided by such
amendment, except that a motion to strike a provision shall
always be in order.
(3) Budget authority, outlays, and receipts.--For purposes
of this section, the levels of budget authority, outlays, and
governmental receipts for a fiscal year shall be determined on
the basis of estimates made by the Committee on the Budget of
the House of Representatives or of the Senate, as the case may
be.
(4) House rules.--The Committee on Rules of the House of
Representatives may make in order amendments to achieve changes
specified by reconciliation directives if a committee or
committees of the House fail to submit recommended changes to
its Committee on the Budget pursuant to its instruction.
(f) Procedure in the Senate.--
(1) In general.--Except as provided in paragraph (2), the
provisions of section 305 for the consideration in the Senate
of concurrent resolutions on the budget and conference reports
thereon, shall also apply to the consideration in the Senate of
reconciliation bills reported under this subsection, motions in
relation to a request for conference, and conference reports
thereon.
(2) Senate consideration.--Consideration in the Senate on
any reconciliation bill reported under this subsection, and all
amendments thereto and debatable motions and appeals in
connection therewith, shall be limited to not more than 20
hours.
(g) Limitation on Changes to the Social Security Act.--
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, it shall not be in order in
the Senate or the House of Representatives to consider any
reconciliation bill, or any amendment thereto or conference report
thereon, that contains recommendations with respect to the old-age,
survivors, and disability insurance program established under title II
of the Social Security Act.
(h) Extraneous Matter in Reconciliation Legislation.--
(1) In general.--When the Senate is considering a
reconciliation bill pursuant to this section (whether that bill
originated in the Senate or the House), upon a point of order
being made by any Senator against material extraneous to the
instructions to a committee which is contained in any title or
provision of the bill or offered as an amendment to the bill,
and the point of order is sustained by the Chair, any part of
said title or provision that contains material extraneous to
the directives to said Committee as defined in paragraph (2),
shall be deemed stricken from the bill and may not be offered
as an amendment from the floor.
(2) Extraneous provisions.--Except as provided in paragraph
(3)--
(A) a provision of a reconciliation bill considered
pursuant to this subsection shall be considered
extraneous if such provision does not produce a
decrease in outlays or an increase in governmental
receipts, including changes in outlays and governmental
receipts brought about by changes in the terms and
conditions under which outlays are made or governmental
receipts are required to be collected;
(B) a provision that is not in the jurisdiction of
the Committee with jurisdiction over said title or
provision shall be considered extraneous (except that
amendments reported by the Committee on the Budget to
achieve compliance with reconciliation directives shall
not be deemed extraneous);
(C) a provision shall be considered to be
extraneous if it increases, or would increase, net
outlays, or if it decreases, or would decrease,
governmental receipts during a fiscal year after the
fiscal years covered by such reconciliation bill, and
such increases or decreases are greater than outlay
reductions or governmental receipts increases resulting
from other provisions in such title in such year; and
(D) a provision shall be considered extraneous if
it violates section 310(g) of the Congressional Budget
Act of 1974.
(3) Senate-originated provisions.--A Senate-originated
provision shall not be considered extraneous under paragraph
(2) if the Chairman and Ranking Minority Member of the
Committee on the Budget and the Chairman and Ranking Minority
Member of the Committee which reported the provision certify
that--
(A) the provision mitigates direct effects clearly
attributable to a provision changing outlays or revenue
and both provisions together produce a net reduction in
the deficit;
(B) the provision will result in a substantial
reduction in outlays or a substantial increase in
governmental receipts during fiscal years after the
fiscal years covered by the reconciliation bill or
reconciliation resolution;
(C) a reduction of outlays or an increase in
governmental receipts is likely to occur as a result of
the provision, in the event of new regulations
authorized by the provision or likely to be proposed,
court rulings on pending litigation, or relationships
between economic indices and stipulated statutory
triggers pertaining to the provision, other than the
regulations, court rulings, or relationships currently
projected by the Congressional Budget Office for
scorekeeping purposes; or
(D) such provision will be likely to produce a
significant reduction in outlays or increase in
governmental receipts but, due to insufficient data,
such reduction or increase cannot be reliably
estimated.
(4) Committee reported provisions.--a provision reported by
a committee shall not be considered extraneous under paragraph
(2) if--
(A) the provision is an integral part of a
provision or title, which if introduced as a bill,
would be referred to such committee, and the provision
sets forth the procedure to carry out or implement the
substantive provisions that were reported and which
fall within the jurisdiction of such committee; or
(B) the provision states an exception to, or a
special application of, the general provision or title
of which it is a part and such general provision or
title if introduced as a bill, would be referred to
such committee.
(5) Technical and conforming amendments.--Technical and
conforming provisions shall not be considered extraneous under
this subsection.
(6) Extraneous materials.--Upon the reporting of a
reconciliation bill pursuant to this subsection in the Senate,
and again upon the submission of a conference report on such a
reconciliation bill, the Committee on the Budget of the Senate
shall submit for the record a list of material considered to be
extraneous under paragraph (2) (A), (C), and (D), to the
instructions of a committee as provided in this section. The
inclusion or exclusion of a provision shall not constitute a
determination of extraneousness by the Presiding Officer of the
Senate.
(7) Conference reports.--When the Senate is considering a
conference report on, or an amendment between the Houses in
relation to, a reconciliation bill pursuant to this section,
upon a point of order being made by any Senator against
extraneous material meeting the definition of this subsection,
and such point of order being sustained, such material
contained in such conference report or amendment shall be
deemed stricken, and the Senate shall proceed, without
intervening action or motion, to consider the question of
whether the Senate shall recede from its amendment and concur
with a further amendment, or concur in the House amendment with
a further amendment, as the case may be, which further
amendment shall consist of only that portion of the conference
report or House amendment, as the case may be, not so stricken.
Any such motion in the Senate shall be debatable for two hours.
In any case in which such point of order is sustained against a
conference report (or Senate amendment derived from such
conference report by operation of this subsection), no further
amendment shall be in order.
(i) Determinations and Points of Order.--Notwithstanding any other
law or rule of the Senate, it shall be in order for a Senator to raise
a single point of order that several provisions of a bill, resolution,
amendment, motion, or conference report violate this section. The
Presiding Officer may sustain the point of order as to some or all of
the provisions against which the Senator raised the point of order. If
the Presiding Officer so sustains the point of order as to some of the
provisions (including provisions of an amendment, motion, or conference
report) against which the Senator raised the point of order, then only
those provisions (including provisions of an amendment, motion, or
conference report) against which the Presiding Officer sustains the
point of order shall be deemed stricken pursuant to this section.
Before the Presiding Officer rules on such a point of order, any
Senator may move to waive such a point of order as it applies to some
or all of the provisions against which the point of order was raised.
Such a motion to waive is amendable in accordance with the rules and
precedents of the Senate. After the Presiding Officer rules on such a
point of order, any Senator may appeal the ruling of the Presiding
Officer on such a point of order as it applies to some or all of the
provisions on which the Presiding Officer ruled.
SEC. 224. REVISED ESTIMATES AND FINAL MAXIMUM DEFICIT AMOUNT
SEQUESTRATION REPORTS.
(a) Revised Estimates, Determinations, and Final Maximum Deficit
Amount Sequestration Reports.--On the dates specified in section
202(a), OMB shall submit to the President and Congress, and CBO shall
submit to Congress, a revised report--
(1) indicating whether and to what extent, as a result of
laws enacted and regulations promulgated after the submission
of their preview report under section 222(a), the excess
deficit identified in the report submitted under such
subsection has been eliminated, reduced, or increased; and
(2) adjusting the determinations made under section 222(a)
to the extent necessary.
The final report submitted under this subsection shall contain
estimates, determinations, and specifications for all of the items
contained in the maximum deficit amount reconciliation report and shall
be based on the same economic and technical assumptions and employ the
same methodologies shall be based on the supplemental budget estimates
under section 1106 of title 31, United states Code, and the CBO report
shall be based on the most recent report required by section 202(e)(2)
of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974. Estimates shall be consistent
with section 257 of the Balanced Budget and Enforcement Act Deficit
Control Act of 1985. The reports shall provide for the determination of
reductions in the manner specified in section 222(a)(3).
(b) Dates for Submission of Reports and Issuance of Orders.--If the
date specified for the submission of a report by the Director of OMB
under this section falls on a Sunday or legal holiday, such report
shall be submitted or such order issued on the following day.
(c) Printing of Reports.--Each report submitted under this section
shall be printed in the Federal Register on the date it is issued; and
the reports of the Director of OMB submitted to the Congress under
subsection (a)(1) shall be printed as documents of the House of
Representatives and the Senate.
SEC. 225. MAXIMUM DEFICIT AMOUNT-PRESIDENTIAL ORDER.
(a) In General.--On the date specified in section 202(a) and
following the submission of a report by the Director of OMB to the
President and Congress under section 224 that identifies an amount by
which the deficit for a fiscal year will exceed the maximum deficit
amount for such fiscal year the President, in strict accordance with
the requirements set forth in section 227, shall eliminate the full
amount of the deficit excess by issuing an order that eliminates the
direct spending authority and outlays resulting therefrom in accordance
with such report from each budget account activity as identified in the
program and financing schedules contained in the appendix to the Budget
of the United States Government for that fiscal year, applying the same
reduction percentage as the percentage by which the account is reduced
in such report.
(b) Order To Be Based on OMB Report.--The order must provide for
reductions in the manner specified in section 224, and must be
consistent with such report in all respects. The President may not
modify or recalculate any of the estimates, determinations,
specifications, bases, amounts or percentages set forth in the report
submitted under section 224 in determining the reductions to be
specified in the order with respect to budget activities, within an
account.
(c) Effect of Sequestration Under Presidential Order.--Amounts
sequestered under an order issued by the President under subsection (a)
for a fiscal year shall be permanently cancelled in accordance with
such final order.
(d) Accompanying Message.--At the time the actions described in the
preceding provisions of this subsection with respect to any fiscal year
are taken, the President shall transmit to both Houses of the Congress
a message containing all the information required by this section and
further specifying in strict accordance with subsection (b)--
(1) within each account, and the amounts which are to be
sequestered or reduced for each such program, project, and
activity or budget account activity; and
(2) such other supporting details as the President may
determine to be appropriate.
Upon receipt in the Senate and the House of Representatives, the
message shall be referred to all committees with jurisdiction over
programs, projects, and activities affected by the order.
(e) Effective Date of Initial Order.--The order issued by the
President under subsection (a) with respect to any fiscal year shall be
effective as of the date of its issuance.
SEC. 226. CONGRESSIONAL RESPONSE TO LOW GROWTH.
(a) Special Procedures in the Event of Low Economic Growth.--
(1) In general.--The Director of the Congressional Budget
Office shall notify the Congress at any time if--
(A) during the period consisting of the quarter
during which such notification is given, the quarter
preceding such notification, and the four quarters
following such notification, such Office or the Office
of Management and Budget has determined that real
economic growth is projected or estimated to be less
than zero with respect to each of any two consecutive
quarters within such period, or
(B) the Department of Commerce preliminary reports
of actual real economic growth (or any subsequent
revision thereof) indicate that the rate of real
economic growth for each of the most recent reported
quarter and the immediately preceding quarter is less
than one percent.
Upon such notification the majority leader of each House shall
introduce a joint resolution (in the form set forth in
paragraph (2)) declaring that the conditions specified in this
paragraph are met and suspending the relevant provisions of
this title for the remainder of the current fiscal year or for
the following fiscal year or both.
(2) Form of joint resolution.--
(A) Matter.--The matter after the resolving clause
in any joint resolution introduced pursuant to
paragraph (1) shall be as follows: ``That the Congress
declares that the conditions specified in section
226(a)(1) of the Stop Over Spending Act of 2006 are met
and the provisions of that Act, including sequestration
of discretionary spending under subtitle B of that Act
are suspended for the remainder of the current year,
and for the fiscal year following the current year.
This joint resolution shall not have the effect of
suspending any final order which was issued for the
current fiscal year under the SOS Act if such order was
issued before the date of the enactment of this joint
resolution. .
(B) Title.--The title of the joint resolution shall
be ``Joint resolution suspending certain provisions of
law pursuant to SOS Act.'' and the joint resolution
shall not contain any preamble.
(b) Committee Action.--Each joint resolution introduced pursuant to
subsection (a) shall be referred to the Committee on the Budget of the
House involved; and such Committee shall report the joint resolution to
its House without amendment on or before the fifth day on which such
House is in session after the date on which the joint resolution is
introduced. If the Committee fails to report the joint resolution
within the five-day period referred to in the preceding sentence, it
shall be automatically discharged from further consideration of the
joint resolution, and the joint resolution shall be placed on the
appropriate calendar.
(c) Consideration of Joint Resolution.--
(1) In general.--A vote on final passage of a joint
resolution reported to a House of the Congress or discharged
pursuant to subsection (b) shall be taken on or before the
close of the fifth calendar day of session of such House after
the date on which the joint resolution is reported to such
House or after the Committee has been discharged from further
consideration of the joint resolution. If prior to the passage
by one House of a joint resolution of that House, that House
received the same joint resolution from the other House, then--
(A) the procedure in that House shall be the same
as if no such joint resolution had been received from
the other House, but
(B) the vote on final passage shall be on the joint
resolution of the other House.
When the joint resolution is agreed to, the Clerk of the House
of Representatives (in the case of a House joint resolution
agreed to in the House of Representatives) or the Secretary of
the Senate (in the case of a Senate joint resolution agreed to
in the Senate) shall cause the joint resolution to be
engrossed, certified, and transmitted to the other House of the
Congress as soon as practicable.
(2) House.--
(A) Proceeding.--A motion in the House of
Representatives to proceed to the consideration of a
joint resolution under this subsection shall be highly
privileged and not debatable. An amendment to the
motion shall not be in order, nor shall it be in order
to move to reconsider the vote by which the motion is
agreed to or disagreed to.
(B) Debate.--Debate in the House of Representatives
on a joint resolution under this subsection shall be
limited to not more than 5 hours, which shall be
divided equally between those favoring and those
opposing the joint resolution. A motion to postpone,
made in the House of Representatives with respect to
the consideration of a joint resolution under this
subsection, and a motion to proceed to the
consideration of other business, shall not be in order.
A motion further to limit debate shall not be
debatable. It shall not be in order to move to table or
to recommit a joint resolution under this subsection or
to move to reconsider the vote by which the joint
resolution is agreed to or disagreed to.
(C) Appeals.--All appeals from the decisions of the
Chair relating to the application of the Rules of the
House of Representatives to the procedure relating to a
joint resolution under this subsection shall be decided
without debate.
(D) Form of resolution.--Except to the extent
specifically provided in this subsection or in
paragraph (4), consideration of a joint resolution
under this paragraph shall be governed by the Rules of
the House of Representatives.
(3) Senate.--
(A) Proceeding.--A motion in the Senate to proceed
to the consideration of a joint resolution under this
subsection shall be privileged and not debatable. An
amendment to the motion shall not be in order, nor
shall it be in order to move to reconsider the vote by
which the motion is agreed to or disagreed to.
(B) Debate.--Debate in the Senate on a joint
resolution under this subsection, and all debatable
motions and appeals in connection therewith, shall be
limited to not more than five hours. The time shall be
equally divided between, and controlled by, the
majority leader and the minority leader or their
designees.
(C) Motions and appeals.--Debate in the Senate on
any debatable motion or appeal in connection with a
joint resolution under this subsection shall be limited
to not more than one hour, to be equally divided
between, and controlled by, the mover and the manager
of the joint resolution, except that in the event the
manager of the joint resolution is in favor of any such
motion or appeal, the time in opposition thereto shall
be controlled by the minority leader or his designee.
(D) Limit debate or recommit.--A motion in the
Senate to further limit debate on a joint resolution
under this subsection is not debatable. A motion to
table or to recommit a joint resolution under this
subsection is not in order.
(4) No amendments.--No amendment to a joint resolution
considered under this subsection shall be in order in either
the House of Representatives or the Senate.
SEC. 227. EXEMPTIONS FROM SEQUESTRATION.
(a) In General.--Except as provided in subsection (b), all direct
spending and outlays flowing therefrom shall be subject to the
sequestration procedures under this subtitle.
(b) Exceptions.--
(1) Social security benefits and tier i railroad retirement
benefits.--Benefits payable under the old-age, survivors, and
disability insurance program established under title II of the
Social Security Act, or in benefits payable under section 3(a),
3(f)(3), 4(a), or 4(f) of the Railroad Retirement Act of 1974,
shall be exempt from any reduction under any order issued under
this part.
(2) In budget.--
(A) President's budget.--The President shall
include in the budget submitted pursuant to section
1105 of title 31, United States Code, exemptions from
sequestration procedures for specific accounts or
activities where amounts are not available for
sequestration (which includes outlays for interest on
the public debt, outlays for claims against the United
States, outlays for miscellaneous permanent
appropriations and outlays for existing contracts.)
(B) Justification.--The President shall include a
justification for each exemption submitted pursuant to
subparagraph (A).
(C) Application.--The exemptions provided in
paragraph (1) and the exemptions submitted by the
President under this paragraph shall stand as the only
exemptions to sequestration procedures under this
subtitle, unless otherwise provided by law.
SEC. 228. SUBMISSION OF PRESIDENT'S BUDGET; MAXIMUM DEFICIT AMOUNT MAY
NOT BE EXCEEDED.
Section 1105 of title 31, United States Code, is amended by adding
at the end thereof the following:
``(i) The budget transmitted pursuant to subsection (a) for a
fiscal year shall be prepared consistent with section 257 of the
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, in such a
manner as to ensure that the deficit for such fiscal year shall not
exceed the maximum deficit amount for such fiscal year.''.
TITLE III--BIENNIAL BUDGETARY AND APPROPRIATIONS
SEC. 301. REVISION OF TIMETABLE.
Section 300 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 631)
is amended to read as follows:
``timetable
``Sec. 300. (a) In General.--Except as provided by subsection (b),
the timetable with respect to the congressional budget process for any
Congress (beginning with the One Hundred Tenth Congress) is as follows:
``First Session
On or before: Action to be completed:
First Monday in President submits the biennial budget recommendations.
February.
February 15............ Congressional Budget Office submits report to Budget Committees.
Not later than 6 weeks Committees submit views and estimates to Budget Committees.
after the biennial
budget submission.
April 1................ Budget Committees report concurrent resolution on the biennial budget.
May 15................. Congress completes action on concurrent resolution on the biennial
budget.
May 15................. Biennial appropriation bills may be considered in the House.
June 10................ House Appropriations Committee reports last biennial appropriation bill.
June 30................ House completes action on biennial appropriation bills.
August 1............... Congress completes action on reconciliation legislation.
October 1.............. Biennium begins.
On or before: Action to be completed:
February 15............ President submits biennial budget review.
Not later than 6 weeks Congressional Budget Office submits report to Budget Committees.
after President
submits budget review.
The last day of the Congress completes action on bills and resolutions authorizing new
session. budget authority for the succeeding biennium.
``(b) Special Rule.--In the case of any first session of Congress
that begins in any year immediately following a leap year and during
which the term of a President (except a President who succeeds himself
or herself) begins, the following dates shall supersede those set forth
in subsection (a):
``First Session
On or before: Action to be completed:
First Monday in April.. President submits the biennial budget recommendations.
April 20............... Committees submit views and estimates to Budget Committees.
May 15................. Budget Committees report concurrent resolution on the biennial budget.
June 1................. Congress completes action on concurrent resolution on the biennial
budget.
July 1................. Biennial appropriation bills may be considered in the House.
July 20................ House completes action on biennial appropriation bills.
August 1............... Congress completes action on reconciliation legislation.
October 1.............. Biennium begins.''.
SEC. 302. AMENDMENTS TO THE CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET AND IMPOUNDMENT
CONTROL ACT OF 1974.
(a) Declaration of Purpose.--Section 2(2) of the Congressional
Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 621(2)) is amended
by striking ``each year'' and inserting ``biennially''.
(b) Definitions.--
(1) Budget resolution.--Section 3(4) of such Act (2 U.S.C.
622(4)) is amended by striking ``fiscal year'' each place it
appears and inserting ``biennium''.
(2) Biennium.--Section 3 of such Act (2 U.S.C. 622) is
further amended by adding at the end the following new
paragraph:
``(11) The term `biennium' means the period of 2
consecutive fiscal years beginning on October 1 of any odd-
numbered year.''.
(c) Biennial Concurrent Resolution on the Budget.--
(1) Section heading.--The section heading of section 301 of
such Act is amended by striking ``annual'' and inserting
``biennial''.
(2) Contents of resolution.--Section 301(a) of such Act (2
U.S.C. 632(a)) is amended--
(A) in the matter preceding paragraph (1) by--
(i) striking ``April 15 of each year'' and
inserting ``May 15 of each odd-numbered year'';
(ii) striking ``the fiscal year beginning
on October 1 of such year'' the first place it
appears and inserting ``the biennium beginning
on October 1 of such year''; and
(iii) striking ``the fiscal year beginning
on October 1 of such year'' the second place it
appears and inserting ``each fiscal year in
such period'';
(B) in paragraph (6), by striking ``for the fiscal
year'' and inserting ``for each fiscal year in the
biennium''; and
(C) in paragraph (7), by striking ``for the fiscal
year'' and inserting ``for each fiscal year in the
biennium''.
(3) Additional matters.--Section 301(b)(3) of such Act (2
U.S.C. 632(b)) is amended by striking ``for such fiscal year''
and inserting ``for either fiscal year in such biennium''.
(4) Views of other committees.--Section 301(d) of such Act
(2 U.S.C. 632(d)) is amended by inserting ``(or, if applicable,
as provided by section 300(b))'' after ``United States Code''.
(5) Hearings.--Section 301(e)(1) of such Act (2 U.S.C.
632(e)) is amended by--
(A) striking ``fiscal year'' and inserting
``biennium''; and
(B) inserting after the second sentence the
following: ``On or before April 1 of each odd-numbered
year (or, if applicable, as provided by section
300(b)), the Committee on the Budget of each House
shall report to its House the concurrent resolution on
the budget referred to in subsection (a) for the
biennium beginning on October 1 of that year.''.
(6) Goals for reducing unemployment.--Section 301(f) of
such Act (2 U.S.C. 632(f)) is amended by striking ``fiscal
year'' each place it appears and inserting ``biennium''.
(7) Economic assumptions.--Section 301(g)(1) of such Act (2
U.S.C. 632(g)(1)) is amended by striking ``for a fiscal year''
and inserting ``for a biennium''.
(8) Table of contents.--The item relating to section 301 in
the table of contents set forth in section 1(b) of such Act is
amended by striking ``Annual'' and inserting ``Biennial''.
(d) Committee Allocations.--Section 302 of such Act (2 U.S.C. 633)
is amended--
(1) in subsection (a)
(A) in paragraph (1), by--
(i) striking ``for the first fiscal year of
the resolution,'' and inserting ``for each
fiscal year in the biennium,'';
(ii) striking ``for that period of fiscal
years'' and inserting ``for all fiscal years
covered by the resolution''; and
(iii) striking ``for the fiscal year of
that resolution'' and inserting ``for each
fiscal year in the biennium''; and
(B) in paragraph (5), by striking ``April 15'' and
inserting ``May 15 or June 1 (under section 300(b))'';
(2) in subsection (b), by striking ``budget year'' and
inserting ``biennium'';
(3) in subsection (c) by striking ``for a fiscal year''
each place it appears and inserting ``for each fiscal year in
the biennium'';
(4) in subsection (f)(1), by striking ``for a fiscal year''
and inserting ``for a biennium'';
(5) in subsection (f)(1), by striking ``the first fiscal
year'' and inserting ``each fiscal year of the biennium'';
(6) in subsection (f)(2)(A), by--
(A) striking ``the first fiscal year'' and
inserting ``each fiscal year of the biennium''; and
(B) striking ``the total of fiscal years'' and
inserting ``the total of all fiscal years covered by
the resolution''; and
(7) in subsection (g)(1)(A), by striking ``April'' and
inserting ``May''.
(e) Section 303 Point of Order.--
(1) In general.--Section 303(a) of such Act (2 U.S.C.
634(a)) is amended by--
(A) striking ``the first fiscal year'' and
inserting ``each fiscal year of the biennium''; and
(B) striking ``that fiscal year'' each place it
appears and inserting ``that biennium''.
(2) Exceptions in the house.--Section 303(b)(1) of such Act
(2 U.S.C. 634(b)) is amended--
(A) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``the budget
year'' and inserting ``the biennium''; and
(B) in subparagraph (B), by striking ``the fiscal
year'' and inserting ``the biennium''.
(3) Application to the senate.--Section 303(c)(1) of such
Act (2 U.S.C. 634(c)) is amended by--
(A) striking ``fiscal year'' and inserting
``biennium''; and
(B) striking ``that year'' and inserting ``each
fiscal year of that biennium''.
(f) Permissible Revisions of Concurrent Resolutions on the
Budget.--Section 304 of such Act (2 U.S.C. 635) is amended--
(1) by striking ``fiscal year'' the first two places it
appears and inserting ``biennium''; and
(2) by striking ``for such fiscal year'' and inserting
``for such biennium''.
(g) Procedures for Consideration of Budget Resolutions.--Section
305 of such Act (2 U.S.C. 636(3)) is amended--
(1) in subsection (a)(3), by striking ``fiscal year'' and
inserting ``biennium''; and
(2) in subsection (b)(3), by striking ``fiscal year'' and
inserting ``biennium''.
(h) Completion of House Action on Appropriation Bills.--Section 307
of such Act (2 U.S.C. 638) is amended--
(1) by striking ``each year'' and inserting ``each odd-
numbered year'';
(2) by striking ``annual'' and inserting ``biennial'';
(3) by striking ``fiscal year'' and inserting ``biennium'';
and
(4) by striking ``that year'' and inserting ``each odd-
numbered year''.
(i) Completion of Action on Regular Appropriation Bills.--Section
309 of such Act (2 U.S.C. 640) is amended--
(1) by inserting ``of any odd-numbered calendar year''
after ``July'';
(2) by striking ``annual'' and inserting ``biennial''; and
(3) by striking ``fiscal year'' and inserting ``biennium''.
(j) Reconciliation Process.--Section 310(a) of such Act (2 U.S.C.
641(a)) is amended--
(1) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by striking
``any fiscal year'' and inserting ``any biennium''; and
(2) in paragraph (1) by striking ``such fiscal year'' each
place it appears and inserting ``any fiscal year covered by
such resolution''.
(k) Section 311 Point of Order.--
(1) In the house.--Section 311(a)(1) of such Act (2 U.S.C.
642(a)) is amended--
(A) by striking ``for a fiscal year'' and inserting
``for a biennium'';
(B) by striking ``the first fiscal year'' each
place it appears and inserting ``either fiscal year of
the biennium''; and
(C) by striking ``that first fiscal year'' and
inserting ``each fiscal year in the biennium''.
(2) In the senate.--Section 311(a)(2) of such Act is
amended--
(A) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``for the
first fiscal year'' and inserting ``for either fiscal
year of the biennium''; and
(B) in subparagraph (B)--
(i) by striking ``that first fiscal year''
the first place it appears and inserting ``each
fiscal year in the biennium''; and
(ii) by striking ``that first fiscal year
and the ensuing fiscal years'' and inserting
``all fiscal years''.
(3) Social security levels.--Section 311(a)(3) of such Act
is amended by--
(A) striking ``for the first fiscal year'' and
inserting ``each fiscal year in the biennium''; and
(B) striking ``that fiscal year and the ensuing
fiscal years'' and inserting ``all fiscal years''.
(l) Maximum Deficit Amount Point of Order.--Section 312(c) of the
Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 643) is amended--
(1) by striking ``for a fiscal year'' and inserting ``for a
biennium'';
(2) in paragraph (1), by striking ``the first fiscal year''
and inserting ``either fiscal year in the biennium'';
(3) in paragraph (2), by striking ``that fiscal year'' and
inserting ``either fiscal year in the biennium''; and
(4) in the matter following paragraph (2), by striking
``that fiscal year'' and inserting ``the applicable fiscal
year''.
SEC. 303. AMENDMENTS TO TITLE 31, UNITED STATES CODE.
(a) Definition.--Section 1101 of title 31, United States Code, is
amended by adding at the end thereof the following new paragraph:
``(3) `biennium' has the meaning given to such term in
paragraph (11) of section 3 of the Congressional Budget and
Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 622(11)).''.
(b) Budget Contents and Submission to the Congress.--
(1) Schedule.--The matter preceding paragraph (1) in
section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code, is amended to
read as follows:
``(a) On or before the first Monday in February of each odd-
numbered year (or, if applicable, as provided by section 300(b) of the
Congressional Budget Act of 1974), beginning with the One Hundred Tenth
Congress, the President shall transmit to the Congress, the budget for
the biennium beginning on October 1 of such calendar year. The budget
of the United States Government transmitted under this subsection shall
include a budget message and summary and supporting information. The
President shall include in each budget the following:''.
(2) Expenditures.--Section 1105(a)(5) of title 31, United
States Code, is amended by striking ``the fiscal year for which
the budget is submitted and the 4 fiscal years after that
year'' and inserting ``each fiscal year in the biennium for
which the budget is submitted and in the succeeding 4 fiscal
years''.
(3) Receipts.--Section 1105(a)(6) of title 31, United
States Code, is amended by striking ``the fiscal year for which
the budget is submitted and the 4 fiscal years after that
year'' and inserting ``each fiscal year in the biennium for
which the budget is submitted and in the succeeding 4 years''.
(4) Balance statements.--Section 1105(a)(9)(C) of title 31,
United States Code, is amended by striking ``the fiscal year''
and inserting ``each fiscal year in the biennium''.
(5) Functions and activities.--Section 1105(a)(12) of title
31, United States Code, is amended in subparagraph (A), by
striking ``the fiscal year'' and inserting ``each fiscal year
in the biennium''.
(6) Allowances.--Section 1105(a)(13) of title 31, United
States Code, is amended by striking ``the fiscal year'' and
inserting ``each fiscal year in the biennium''.
(7) Allowances for uncontrolled expenditures.--Section
1105(a)(14) of title 31, United States Code, is amended by
striking ``that year'' and inserting ``each fiscal year in the
biennium for which the budget is submitted''.
(8) Tax expenditures.--Section 1105(a)(16) of title 31,
United States Code, is amended by striking ``the fiscal year''
and inserting ``each fiscal year in the biennium''.
(9) Future years.--Section 1105(a)(17) of title 31, United
States Code, is amended--
(A) by striking ``the fiscal year following the
fiscal year'' and inserting ``each fiscal year in the
biennium following the biennium'';
(B) by striking ``that following fiscal year'' and
inserting ``each such fiscal year''; and
(C) by striking ``fiscal year before the fiscal
year'' and inserting ``biennium before the biennium''.
(10) Prior year outlays.--Section 1105(a)(18) of title 31,
United States Code, is amended--
(A) by striking ``the prior fiscal year'' and
inserting ``each of the 2 most recently completed
fiscal years,'';
(B) by striking ``for that year'' and inserting
``with respect to those fiscal years''; and
(C) by striking ``in that year'' and inserting ``in
those fiscal years''.
(11) Prior year receipts.--Section 1105(a)(19) of title 31,
United States Code, is amended--
(A) by striking ``the prior fiscal year'' and
inserting ``each of the 2 most recently completed
fiscal years'';
(B) by striking ``for that year'' and inserting
``with respect to those fiscal years''; and
(C) by striking ``in that year'' each place it
appears and inserting ``in those fiscal years''.
(c) Estimated Expenditures of Legislative and Judicial Branches.--
Section 1105(b) of title 31, United States Code, is amended by striking
``each year'' and inserting ``each even-numbered year''.
(d) Recommendations To Meet Estimated Deficiencies.--Section
1105(c) of title 31, United States Code, is amended--
(1) by striking ``the fiscal year for'' the first place it
appears and inserting ``each fiscal year in the biennium for'';
(2) by striking ``the fiscal year for'' the second place it
appears and inserting ``each fiscal year of the biennium, as
the case may be, for''; and
(3) by striking ``for that year'' and inserting ``for each
fiscal year of the biennium''.
(e) Capital Investment Analysis.--Section 1105(e)(1) of title 31,
United States Code, is amended by striking ``ensuing fiscal year'' and
inserting ``biennium to which such budget relates''.
(f) Supplemental Budget Estimates and Changes.--
(1) In general.--Section 1106(a) of title 31, United States
Code, is amended--
(A) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by--
(i) inserting after ``Before July 16 of
each year'' the following: ``and February 15 of
each even-numbered year''; and
(ii) striking ``fiscal year'' and inserting
``biennium'';
(B) in paragraph (1), by striking ``that fiscal
year'' and inserting ``each fiscal year in such
biennium'';
(C) in paragraph (2), by striking ``fiscal year''
and inserting ``biennium''; and
(D) in paragraph (3), by striking ``fiscal year''
and inserting ``biennium''.
(2) Changes.--Section 1106(b) of title 31, United States
Code, is amended by--
(A) striking ``the fiscal year'' and inserting
``each fiscal year in the biennium'';
(B) inserting after ``Before July 16 of each year''
the following: ``and February 15 of each even-numbered
year''; and
(C) striking ``submitted before July 16'' and
inserting ``required by this subsection''.
(g) Current Programs and Activities Estimates.--
(1) In general.--Section 1109(a) of title 31, United States
Code, is amended--
(A) by striking ``On or before the first Monday
after January 3 of each year (on or before February 5
in 1986)'' and inserting ``At the same time the budget
required by section 1105 is submitted for a biennium'';
and
(B) by striking ``the following fiscal year'' and
inserting ``each fiscal year of such period''.
(2) Joint economic committee.--Section 1109(b) of title 31,
United States Code, is amended by striking ``March 1 of each
year'' and inserting ``within 6 weeks of the President's budget
submission for each odd-numbered year (or, if applicable, as
provided by section 300(b) of the Congressional Budget Act of
1974)''.
(h) Year-Ahead Requests for Authorizing Legislation.--Section 1110
of title 31, United States Code, is amended by--
(1) striking ``May 16'' and inserting ``March 31''; and
(2) striking ``year before the year in which the fiscal
year begins'' and inserting ``calendar year preceding the
calendar year in which the biennium begins''.
SEC. 304. TWO-YEAR APPROPRIATIONS; TITLE AND STYLE OF APPROPRIATIONS
ACTS.
Section 105 of title 1, United States Code, is amended to read as
follows:
``Sec. 105. Title and style of appropriations Acts
``(a) The style and title of all Acts making appropriations for the
support of the Government shall be as follows: `An Act making
appropriations (here insert the object) for each fiscal year in the
biennium of fiscal years (here insert the fiscal years of the
biennium).'.
``(b) All Acts making regular appropriations for the support of the
Government shall be enacted for a biennium and shall specify the amount
of appropriations provided for each fiscal year in such period.
``(c) For purposes of this section, the term `biennium' has the
same meaning as in section 3(11) of the Congressional Budget and
Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 622(11)).''.
SEC. 305. MULTIYEAR AUTHORIZATIONS.
(a) In General.--Title III of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974
is amended by adding at the end the following new section:
``authorizations of appropriations
``Sec. 316. (a) Point of Order.--It shall not be in order in the
House of Representatives or the Senate to consider--
``(1) any bill, joint resolution, amendment, motion, or
conference report that authorizes appropriations for a period
of less than 2 fiscal years, unless the program, project, or
activity for which the appropriations are authorized will
require no further appropriations and will be completed or
terminated after the appropriations have been expended; and
``(2) in any odd-numbered year, any authorization or
revenue bill or joint resolution until Congress completes
action on the biennial budget resolution, all regular biennial
appropriations bills, and all reconciliation bills.
``(b) Applicability.--In the Senate, subsection (a) shall not apply
to--
``(1) any measure that is privileged for consideration
pursuant to a rule or statute;
``(2) any matter considered in Executive Session; or
``(3) an appropriations measure or reconciliation bill.''.
(b) Amendment to Table of Contents.--The table of contents set
forth in section 1(b) of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment
Control Act of 1974 is amended by adding after the item relating to
section 315 the following new item:
``Sec. 316. Authorizations of appropriations.''.
SEC. 306. GOVERNMENT PLANS ON A BIENNIAL BASIS.
(a) Strategic Plans.--Section 306 of title 5, United States Code,
is amended--
(1) in subsection (a), by striking ``September 30, 1997''
and inserting ``September 30, 2007'';
(2) in subsection (b)--
(A) by striking ``five years forward'' and
inserting ``6 years forward'';
(B) by striking ``at least every three years'' and
inserting ``at least every 4 years''; and
(C) by striking beginning with ``, except that''
through ``four years''; and
(3) in subsection (c), by inserting a comma after
``section'' the second place it appears and adding ``including
a strategic plan submitted by September 30, 2007 meeting the
requirements of subsection (a)''.
(b) Budget Contents and Submission to Congress.--Paragraph (28) of
section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code, is amended by striking
``beginning with fiscal year 1999, a'' and inserting ``beginning with
fiscal year 2008, a biennial''.
(c) Performance Plans.--Section 1115 of title 31, United States
Code, is amended--
(1) in subsection (a)--
(A) in the matter before paragraph (1) by striking
``an annual'' and inserting ``a biennial'';
(B) in paragraph (1) by inserting after ``program
activity'' the following: ``for both years 1 and 2 of
the biennial plan'';
(C) in paragraph (5) by striking ``and'' after the
semicolon,
(D) in paragraph (6) by striking the period and
inserting a semicolon; and inserting ``and'' after the
inserted semicolon; and
(E) by adding after paragraph (6) the following:
``(7) cover a 2-year period beginning with the first fiscal
year of the next biennial budget cycle.'';
(2) in subsection (d) by striking ``annual'' and inserting
``biennial''; and
(3) in paragraph (6) of subsection (g) by striking
``annual'' and inserting ``biennial''.
(d) Managerial Accountability and Flexibility.--Section 9703 of
title 31, United States Code, relating to managerial accountability, is
amended--
(1) in subsection (a)--
(A) in the first sentence by striking ``annual'';
and
(B) by striking ``section 1105(a)(29)'' and
inserting ``section 1105(a)(28)'';
(2) in subsection (e)--
(A) in the first sentence by striking ``one or''
before ``years'';
(B) in the second sentence by striking ``a
subsequent year'' and inserting ``a subsequent 2-year
period''; and
(C) in the third sentence by striking ``three'' and
inserting ``4''.
(e) Pilot Projects for Performance Budgeting.--Section 1119 of
title 31, United States Code, is amended--
(1) in paragraph (1) of subsection (d), by striking
``annual'' and inserting ``biennial''; and
(2) in subsection (e), by striking ``annual'' and inserting
``biennial''.
(f) Strategic Plans.--Section 2802 of title 39, United States Code,
is amended--
(1) in subsection (a), by striking ``September 30, 1997''
and inserting ``September 30, 2005'';
(2) in subsection (b), by striking ``five years forward''
and inserting ``6 years forward'';
(3) in subsection (b), by striking ``at least every three
years'' and inserting ``at least every 4 years''; and
(4) in subsection (c), by inserting a comma after
``section'' the second place it appears and inserting
``including a strategic plan submitted by September 30, 2005
meeting the requirements of subsection (a)''.
(g) Performance Plans.--Section 2803(a) of title 39, United States
Code, is amended--
(1) in the matter before paragraph (1), by striking ``an
annual'' and inserting ``a biennial'';
(2) in paragraph (1), by inserting after ``program
activity'' the following: ``for both years 1 and 2 of the
biennial plan'';
(3) in paragraph (5), by striking ``and'' after the
semicolon;
(4) in paragraph (6), by striking the period and inserting
``; and''; and
(5) by adding after paragraph (6) the following:
``(7) cover a 2-year period beginning with the first fiscal
year of the next biennial budget cycle.''.
(h) Committee Views of Plans and Reports.--Section 301(d) of the
Congressional Budget Act (2 U.S.C. 632(d)) is amended by adding at the
end ``Each committee of the Senate or the House of Representatives
shall review the strategic plans, performance plans, and performance
reports, required under section 306 of title 5, United States Code, and
sections 1115 and 1116 of title 31, United States Code, of all agencies
under the jurisdiction of the committee. Each committee may provide its
views on such plans or reports to the Committee on the Budget of the
applicable House.''.
(i) Effective Date.--
(1) In general.--The amendments made by this section shall
take effect on the date of enactment of this Act.
(2) Agency actions.--Effective on and after the date of
enactment of this Act, each agency shall take such actions as
necessary to prepare and submit any plan or report in
accordance with the amendments made by this Act.
SEC. 307. BIENNIAL APPROPRIATION BILLS.
(a) In General.--Title III of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974
(2 U.S.C. 631 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following:
``consideration of biennial appropriations bills
``Sec. 317. It shall not be in order in the House of
Representatives or the Senate in any odd-numbered year to consider any
regular bill providing new budget authority or a limitation on
obligations under the jurisdiction of any of the subcommittees of the
Committees on Appropriations for only the first fiscal year of a
biennium, unless the program, project, or activity for which the new
budget authority or obligation limitation is provided will require no
additional authority beyond 1 year and will be completed or terminated
after the amount provided has been expended.''.
(b) Amendment to Table of Contents.--The table of contents set
forth in section 1(b) of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment
Control Act of 1974 is amended by adding after the item relating to
section 316 the following new item:
``Sec. 317. Consideration of biennial appropriations bills.''.
SEC. 308. REPORT ON CHANGES IN LAW.
Not later than 60 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the
Director of OMB shall report to the Committees on the Budget of the
House of Representatives and the Senate any changes in law to the
Congressional Budget Act of 1974 and the provisions of this Act
required to conform with a biennial budget process.
SEC. 309. EFFECTIVE DATE.
Except as provided in sections 306 and 308, this title and the
amendments made by this Act shall take effect on January 1, 2007, and
shall apply to budget resolutions and appropriations for the biennium
beginning with fiscal year 2008.
TITLE IV--COMMISSIONS
Subtitle A--National Commission on Entitlement Solvency
SEC. 401. DEFINITIONS.
In this subtitle:
(1) Administrator.--The term ``Administrator'' means the
Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
(2) Calendar day.--The term ``calendar day'' means a
calendar day other than 1 in which either House is not in
session because of an adjournment of more than 3 days to a date
certain.
(3) Commission.--The term ``Commission'' means the National
Commission on Entitlement Solvency established under section
402(a).
(4) Commission bill.--The term ``Commission bill'' means a
bill consisting of the proposed legislative language provisions
of the Commission introduced under section 403(a).
(5) Commissioner.--The term ``Commissioner'' means the
Commissioner of Social Security.
(6) Long-term.--The term ``long-term'' means a period of
not less than 75 years beginning on the date of enactment of
this Act.
(7) Medicaid.--The term ``Medicaid'' means the program
established under title XIX of the Social Security Act (42
U.S.C. 1396 et seq.)
(8) Medicare.--The term ``Medicare'' means the program
established under title XVIII of the Social Security Act (42
U.S.C. 1395 et seq.).
(9) Social security.--The term ``Social Security'' means
the program of old-age, survivors, and disability insurance
benefits established under title II of the Social Security Act
(42 U.S.C. 401 et seq.).
(10) Solvency.--The term ``solvency'' means--
(A) in relation to Social Security, any year in
which the balance ratio (as defined under section
709(b) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 910(b)) of
the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund
and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund
established under section 201 of the Social Security
Act (42 U.S.C. 401) is greater than zero;
(B) in relation to the Medicare program, any year
in which there is not excess general revenue medicare
funding (as defined in section 801(c)(1) of the
Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and
Modernization Act of 2003 (Public Law 108-173; 117
Stat. 2358)); and
(C) In relation to Medicaid, any year after 2012 in
which Gross Domestic Product growth is greater than
zero and growth in total Medicaid spending does not
exceed growth in Gross Domestic Product.
SEC. 402. ESTABLISHMENT OF COMMISSION.
(a) Establishment.--There is established a commission to be known
as the ``National Commission on Entitlement Solvency''.
(b) Purpose.--The Commission shall conduct a comprehensive review
of the Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid programs for the
following purposes:
(1) Review.--Reviewing relevant analyses of the current and
long-term actuarial financial condition of the Social Security,
Medicare, and Medicaid programs.
(2) Identifying problems.--Identifying problems that may
threaten the long-term solvency of the Social Security,
Medicare, and Medicaid programs.
(3) Analyzing potential solutions.--Analyzing potential
solutions to problems that threaten the long-term solvency of
the Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid programs.
(4) Providing recommendations.--Providing recommendations
that will ensure the long-term solvency of the Social Security,
Medicare, and Medicaid programs and the provision of
appropriate benefits.
(c) Duties.--
(1) In general.--The Commission shall conduct a
comprehensive review of the Social Security, Medicare, and
Medicaid programs consistent with the purposes described in
subsection (b) and shall submit the report required under
paragraph (2).
(2) Report and recommendations.--
(A) In general.--Not later than May 1, 2007, the
Commission shall submit a report on the long-term
solvency of the Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid
programs that contains a detailed statement of the
findings, conclusions, and recommendations of the
Commission to the President, Congress, the
Commissioner, and the Administrator.
(B) Findings, conclusions, and recommendations.--A
finding, conclusion, or recommendation of the
Commission shall be included in the report under
subparagraph (A) only if not less than 10 members of
the Commission voted for such finding, conclusion, or
recommendation.
(C) Legislative language.--If a recommendation
submitted under subparagraph (A) involves legislative
action, the report shall include proposed legislative
language to carry out such action.
(d) Membership.--
(1) Number and appointment.--The Commission shall be
composed of 15 members of whom--
(A) 3 shall be appointed by the President;
(B) 3 shall be appointed by the majority leader of
the Senate;
(C) 3 shall be appointed by the minority leader of
the Senate;
(D) 3 shall be appointed by the Speaker of the
House of Representatives; and
(E) 3 shall be appointed by the minority leader of
the House of Representatives.
(2) Co-chairpersons.--The President shall designate 2 Co-
chairpersons from among the members of the Commission appointed
under paragraph (1). The Co-chairpersons may not be affiliated
with the same political party.
(3) Date.--Members of the Commission shall be appointed by
not later than 30 days after the date of enactment of this Act.
(4) Period of appointment.--Members shall be appointed for
the life of the Commission. Any vacancy in the Commission shall
not affect its powers, but shall be filled in the same manner
as the original appointment.
(5) Termination.--The Commission shall terminate on the
date that is 90 days after the Commission submits the report
required under subsection (c)(2).
(e) Administration.--
(1) Quorum.--Eight members of the Commission shall
constitute a quorum for purposes of voting, but a quorum is not
required for members to meet and hold hearings.
(2) Meetings.--The Commission shall meet at the call of the
Chairpersons or a majority of its members.
(3) Hearings.--The Commission may, for the purpose of
carrying out this subtitle--
(A) hold such hearings, sit and act at such times
and places, take such testimony, receive such evidence,
and administer such oaths the Commission considers
advisable;
(B) require, by subpoena or otherwise, the
attendance and testimony of such witnesses the
Commission considers advisable; and
(C) require, by subpoena or otherwise, the
production of such books, records, correspondence,
memoranda, papers, documents, tapes, and other
evidentiary materials relating to any matter under
investigation by the Commission.
(4) Subpoenas.--
(A) Issuance.--
(i) In general.--A subpoena may be issued
under this subsection only--
(I) by the agreement of the Co-
chairpersons; or
(II) by the affirmative vote of 8
members of the Commission.
(ii) Signature.--Subpoenas issued under
this subsection may be issued under the
signature of both Co-chairpersons of the
Commission and may be served by any person
designated by the chairman or by a member
designated by a majority of the Commission.
(B) Enforcement.--In the case of contumacy or
failure to obey a subpoena issued under this
subsection, the United States district court for the
judicial district in which the subpoenaed person
resides, is served, or may be found, may issue an order
requiring such person to appear at any designated place
to testify or to produce documentary or other evidence.
Any failure to obey the order of the court may be
punished by the court as a contempt of that court.
(5) Compensation.--Members of the Commission shall serve
without any additional compensation for their work on the
Commission. However, members may be allowed travel expenses,
including per diem in lieu of subsistence, in accordance with
sections 5702 and 5703 of title 5, United States Code, while
away from their homes or regular places of business in
performance of services for the Commission.
(6) Staff.--
(A) Director.--The Commission shall have a staff
headed by an Executive Director.
(B) Staff appointment.--The Executive Director may
appoint such personnel as the Executive Director and
the Commission determines to be appropriate.
(C) Actuarial experts and consultants.--With the
approval of the Commission, the Executive Director may
procure temporary and intermittent services under
section 3109(b) of title 5, United States Code.
(D) Federal agencies.--
(i) Detail of government employees.--Upon
the request of the Commission, the head of any
Federal agency may detail, without
reimbursement by the Commission, any of the
personnel of such agency to the Commission to
assist in carrying out the duties of the
Commission. Any such detail shall not interrupt
or otherwise affect the civil service status or
privileges of the Federal employee.
(ii) Technical assistance.--Upon the
request of the Commission, the head of a
Federal agency shall provide such technical
assistance to the Commission as the Commission
determines to be necessary to carry out its
duties.
(E) Resources.--The Commission shall have
reasonable access to materials, resources, statistical
data, and other information the Commission determines
to be necessary to carry out its duties from the
Library of Congress, the Chief Actuary of Social
Security, the Chief Actuary of the Centers for Medicare
& Medicaid Services, the Congressional Budget Office,
and other agencies and representatives of the executive
and legislative branches of the Federal Government. The
Chairpersons shall make requests for such access in
writing when necessary.
(f) Funding.--The Commission shall receive, from amounts
appropriated to the Commissioner and the Administrator, respectively,
for fiscal year 2007 for administrative expenses, such sums as are
necessary to carry out the purposes of this section.
SEC. 403. EXPEDITED CONSIDERATION OF COMMISSION RECOMMENDATIONS.
(a) Introduction and Committee Consideration.--
(1) Introduction.--The aggregate legislative language
provisions submitted pursuant to section 402(c)(2)(C) shall be
combined into a Commission bill and shall be introduced in the
Senate by the majority leader, or the majority leader's
designee, and in the House of Representatives, by the Speaker,
or the Speaker's designee. Upon such introduction, the
Commission bill shall be referred to the appropriate committees
of Congress under paragraph (2). If the Commission bill is not
introduced in accordance with the preceding sentence, then any
member of Congress may introduce the Commission bill in their
respective House of Congress beginning on the date that is the
5th calendar day that such House is in session following the
date of the submission of such aggregate legislative language
provisions.
(2) Committee consideration.--
(A) Referral.--A Commission bill introduced in the
Senate shall be referred to the Committee on Finance of
the Senate. A Commission bill introduced in the House
of Representatives shall be referred to the Committee
on Ways and Means and the Committee on Energy and
Commerce of the House of Representatives.
(B) Reporting.--Not later than 30 calendar days
after the introduction of the Commission bill, each
Committee of Congress to which the Commission bill was
referred shall report the bill or a committee amendment
thereto.
(C) Discharge of committee.--If a committee to
which is referred a Commission bill has not reported
such Commission bill at the end of 30 calendar days
after its introduction or at the end of the first day
after there has been reported to the House involved a
Commission bill, whichever is earlier, such committee
shall be deemed to be discharged from further
consideration of such Commission bill, and such
Commission bill shall be placed on the appropriate
calendar of the House involved.
(b) Expedited Procedure.--
(1) Consideration.--
(A) In general.--Not later than 7 calendar days
after the date on which a committee has been discharged
from consideration of a Commission bill, the majority
leader of the Senate, or the majority leader's
designee, or the Speaker of the House of
Representatives, or the Speaker's designee, shall move
to proceed to the consideration of the committee
amendment to the Commission bill, and if there is no
such amendment, to the Commission bill. It shall also
be in order for any member of the Senate or the House
of Representatives, respectively, to move to proceed to
the consideration of the Commission bill at any time
after the conclusion of such 7-day period.
(B) Motion to proceed.--A motion to proceed to the
consideration of a Commission bill is highly privileged
in the House of Representatives and is privileged in
the Senate and is not debatable. The motion is not
subject to amendment, to a motion to postpone
consideration of the Commission bill, or to a motion to
proceed to the consideration of other business. A
motion to reconsider the vote by which the motion to
proceed is agreed to or not agreed to shall not be in
order. If the motion to proceed is agreed to, the
Senate or the House of Representatives, as the case may
be, shall immediately proceed to consideration of the
Commission bill without intervening motion, order, or
other business, and the Commission bill shall remain
the unfinished business of the Senate or the House of
Representatives, as the case may be, until disposed of.
(C) Limited debate.--Debate on the Commission bill
and all amendments thereto and on all debatable motions
and appeals in connection therewith shall be limited to
not more than 50 hours, which shall be divided equally
between those favoring and those opposing the
Commission bill. A motion further to limit debate on
the Commission bill is in order and is not debatable.
All time used for consideration of the Commission bill,
including time used for quorum calls (except quorum
calls immediately preceding a vote) and voting, shall
come from the 50 hours of debate.
(D) Amendments.--No amendment that is not germane
to the provisions of the Commission bill shall be in
order in the Senate. In the Senate, an amendment, any
amendment to an amendment, or any debatable motion or
appeal is debatable for not to exceed 1 hour to be
divided equally between those favoring and those
opposing the amendment, motion, or appeal.
(E) Vote on final passage.--Immediately following
the conclusion of the debate on the Commission bill,
the disposition of any pending amendments under
subparagraph (D), and a request to establish the
presence of a quorum, the vote on final passage of the
Commission bill shall occur.
(F) Other motions not in order.--A motion to
postpone consideration of the Commission bill, a motion
to proceed to the consideration of other business, or a
motion to recommit the Commission bill is not in order.
A motion to reconsider the vote by which the Commission
bill is agreed to or not agreed to is not in order.
(2) Consideration by other house.--If, before the passage
by one House of the Commission bill that was introduced in such
House, such House receives from the other House a Commission
bill as passed by such other House--
(A) the Commission bill of the other House shall
not be referred to a committee and may only be
considered for final passage in the House that receives
it under subparagraph (C);
(B) the procedure in the House in receipt of the
Commission bill of the other House, with respect to the
Commission bill that was introduced in the House in
receipt of the Commission bill of the other House,
shall be the same as if no Commission bill had been
received from the other House; and
(C) notwithstanding subparagraph (B), the vote on
final passage shall be on the Commission bill of the
other House.
Upon disposition of a Commission bill that is received by one
House from the other House, it shall no longer be in order to
consider the Commission bill that was introduced in the
receiving House.
(3) Consideration in conference.--
(A) Convening of conference.--Immediately upon
final passage of a Commission bill that results in a
disagreement between the two Houses of Congress with
respect to a Commission bill, conferees shall be
appointed and a conference convened.
(B) Action on conference reports in the senate.--
(i) Motion to proceed.--The motion to
proceed to consideration in the Senate of the
conference report on a Commission bill may be
made even though a previous motion to the same
effect has been disagreed to.
(ii) Debate.--During the consideration in
the Senate of the conference report (including
a message between Houses) on a Commission bill,
and all amendments in disagreement, including
all amendments thereto, and debatable motions
and appeals in connection therewith,
consideration shall be limited to 20 hours,
equally divided and controlled by the majority
leader and the minority leader or their
designees. Debate on any debatable motion or
appeal related to the conference report (or a
message between Houses) shall be limited to 1
hour, to be equally divided between, and
controlled by, the mover and the manager of the
conference report (or a message between
Houses).
(iii) Conference report defeated.--Should
the conference report be defeated, debate on
any request for a new conference and the
appointment of conferees shall be limited to 1
hour, to be equally divided between, and
controlled by, the manager of the conference
report and the minority leader or the minority
leader's designee, and should any motion be
made to instruct the conferees before the
conferees are named, debate on such motion
shall be limited to \1/2\ hour, to be equally
divided between, and controlled by, the mover
and the manager of the conference report.
Debate on any amendment to any such
instructions shall be limited to 20 minutes, to
be equally divided between and controlled by
the mover and the manager of the conference
report. In all cases when the manager of the
conference report is in favor of any motion,
appeal, or amendment, the time in opposition
shall be under the control of the minority
leader or the minority leader's designee.
(iv) Amendments in disagreement.--In any
case in which there are amendments in
disagreement, time on each amendment shall be
limited to 30 minutes, to be equally divided
between, and controlled by, the manager of the
conference report and the minority leader or
the minority leader's designee. No amendment
that is not germane to the provisions of such
amendments shall be received.
(v) Limitation on motion to recommit.--A
motion to recommit the conference report is not
in order.
(c) Rules of the Senate and the House of Representatives.--This
section is enacted by Congress--
(1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the Senate
and the House of Representatives, respectively, and is deemed
to be part of the rules of each House, respectively, but
applicable only with respect to the procedure to be followed in
that House in the case of a Commission bill, and it supersedes
other rules only to the extent that it is inconsistent with
such rules; and
(2) with full recognition of the constitutional right of
either House to change the rules (so far as they relate to the
procedure of that House) at any time, in the same manner, and
to the same extent as in the case of any other rule of that
House.
Subtitle B--Commission on Congressional Budgetary Accountability and
Review of Federal Agencies
SEC. 411. DEFINITIONS.
In this subtitle:
(1) Agency.--The term ``agency'' means--
(A) an Executive agency, as defined under section
105 of title 5, United States Code; and
(B) the Executive Office of the President.
(2) Calendar day.--The term ``calendar day'' means a
calendar day other than 1 on which either House is not in
session because of an adjournment of more than 3 days to a date
certain.
(3) Commission bill.--The term ``Commission bill'' means
only a bill which is introduced as provided under section 416,
and contains the proposed legislation included in the report
submitted to Congress under section 413(b)(3), without
modification.
(4) Program.--The term ``program'' means any activity or
function of an agency.
SEC. 412. ESTABLISHMENT OF COMMISSION.
(a) Establishment.--There is established the Commission on
Congressional Budgetary Accountability and Review of Federal Agencies
(referred to in this subtitle as the ``Commission'').
(b) Membership.--
(1) In general.--The Commission shall consist of 15
members, of which, not later than 30 days after the date of
enactment of this Act--
(A) 3 shall be appointed by the President;
(B) 3 shall be appointed by the majority leader of
the Senate;
(C) 3 shall be appointed by the minority leader of
the Senate;
(D) 3 shall be appointed by the Speaker of the
House of Representatives; and
(E) 3 shall be appointed by the minority leader of
the House of Representatives.
(2) Chairperson and vice chairperson.--The President shall
designate a Chairperson and Vice Chairperson from among the
members of the Commission. The Chairperson and the Vice
Chairperson may not be affiliated with the same political
party.
(c) Timing.--Members of the Commission shall be appointed by not
later than 30 days after the date of enactment of this Act.
(d) Period of Appointment; Vacancies.--Members shall be appointed
for the life of the Commission. Any vacancy in the Commission shall not
affect its powers, but shall be filled in the same manner as the
original appointment.
(e) Meetings.--
(1) Initial meeting.--Not later than 30 days after the date
on which all members of the Commission have been appointed, the
Commission shall hold its first meeting.
(2) Subsequent meetings.--The Commission shall meet at the
call of the chairperson.
(f) Quorum.--A majority of the members of the Commission shall
constitute a quorum, but a lesser number of members may hold hearings.
SEC. 413. DUTIES OF THE COMMISSION.
(a) Systematic Assessment of Programs by the President.--
(1) In general.--Not later than 1 year after the date of
enactment of this Act and each of the next 3 years thereafter,
the President shall--
(A) establish a systematic method for assessing the
effectiveness and accountability of agency programs in
accordance with paragraph (2) and divide the programs
into 4 approximately equal budgetary parts based on the
size of the budget and number of personnel of the
agency program; and
(B) submit, to the Commission each year, an
assessment of the programs within each part (one each
year) that use the method established under
subparagraph (A).
(2) Method objectives.--The method established under
paragraph (1) shall--
(A) recognize different types of Federal programs;
(B) assess programs based on the achievement of
performance goals (as defined under section 1115(g)(4)
of title 31, United States Code);
(C) assess programs based in part on the adequacy
of the program's performance measures, financial
management, and other factors determined by the
President;
(D) assess programs based in part on whether the
program has fulfilled the legislative intent
surrounding the creation of the program, taking into
account any change in legislative intent during the
program's existence; and
(E) assess programs based in part on collaborative
analysis, with the program or agency, of program policy
and goals which may not fit into easily measurable
performance goals.
(3) Common performance measures.--Not later than 1 year
after the date of enactment of this Act, the President shall
identify common performance measures for programs covered in
paragraph (1) that have similar functions and, to the extent
feasible, provide the Commission with data on such performance
measures.
(b) Evaluation and Plan by Commission.--
(1) Development.--The method established under subsection
(a) shall be subject to review and change by the Commission. If
the Commission makes any changes in the method, the Commission
shall notify Congress not later than 1 year after reviewing the
first assessment from the President under this section.
(2) Consideration of assessments.--The Commission shall
consider assessments submitted under subsection (a) when
evaluating programs under this subsection.
(3) Assessment and legislation.--
(A) In general.--The Commission shall--
(i) evaluate all agencies and programs
within those agencies in each unit identified
in the systemic assessment under subsection (a)
(one each year over the next 4 years), using
the criteria under subsection (a) subject to
modification under paragraph (1); and
(ii) submit to Congress each of the next 4
years beginning January 1, 2008, with respect
to each evaluation under clause (i)--
(I) a plan with recommendations of
the agencies and programs that should
be realigned or eliminated within each
part; and
(II) proposed legislation to
implement the plan described under
subclause (I).
(B) Relocation of federal employees.--The proposed
legislation under subparagraph (A) shall provide that
if the position of an employee of an agency is
eliminated as a result of the implementation of the
plan under subparagraph (A)(i), the affected agency
shall make reasonable efforts to relocate such employee
to another position within the agency or within another
Federal agency.
(4) Criteria.--
(A) Duplicative.--If 2 or more agencies or programs
are performing the same essential function and the
function can be consolidated or streamlined into a
single agency or program, the Commission shall
recommend that the agencies or programs be realigned.
(B) Wasteful or inefficient.--The Commission may
recommend the realignment or elimination of any agency
or program that has wasted Federal funds by--
(i) egregious spending;
(ii) mismanagement of resources and
personnel; or
(iii) use of such funds for personal
benefit or the benefit of a special interest
group.
(C) Outdated, irrelevant, or failed.--The
Commission shall recommend the elimination of any
agency or program that--
(i) has completed its intended purpose;
(ii) has become irrelevant; or
(iii) has failed to meet its objectives.
SEC. 414. POWERS OF THE COMMISSION.
(a) Hearings.--The chairperson of the Commission, or his or her
designee, may, for the purpose of carrying out this subtitle--
(1) hold such hearings, sit and act at such times and
places, take such testimony, receive such evidence, and
administer such oaths as the chairperson of the Commission
considers advisable;
(2) require, by subpoena or otherwise, the attendance and
testimony of such witnesses as the chairperson of the
Commission considers advisable; and
(3) require, by subpoena or otherwise, the production of
such books, records, correspondence, memoranda, papers,
documents, tapes, and other evidentiary materials relating to
any matter under investigation by the Commission.
(b) Subpoenas.--
(1) Issuance.--
(A) In general.--A subpoena may be issued under
this subsection only--
(i) by the agreement of the chairman and
the vice chairman of the Commission; or
(ii) by the affirmative vote of 8 members
of the Commission.
(B) Signature.--Subpoenas issued under this
subsection (a) may be issued under the signature of the
chairman of the Commission and may be served by any
person designated by the chairman or by a member
designated by a majority of the Commission.
(2) Enforcement.--In the case of contumacy or failure to
obey a subpoena issued under subsection (a), the United States
district court for the judicial district in which the
subpoenaed person resides, is served, or may be found, may
issue an order requiring such person to appear at any
designated place to testify or to produce documentary or other
evidence. Any failure to obey the order of the court may be
punished by the court as a contempt of that court.
(c) Technical Assistance.--Upon the request of the Commission, the
head of a Federal agency shall provide such technical assistance to the
Commission as the Commission determines to be necessary to carry out
its duties.
(d) Information.--The Commission shall have reasonable access to
budgetary, performance or programmatic materials, resources,
statistical data, and other information the Commission determines to be
necessary to carry out its duties from the Congressional Budget Office,
and other agencies and representatives of the executive and legislative
branches of the Federal Government. The Chairpersons shall make
requests for such access in writing when necessary.
(e) Receipt, Handling, Storage, and Dissemination of Information.--
Information shall only be received, handled, stored, and disseminated
by members of the Commission and its staff consistent with all
applicable statutes, regulations, and Executive orders.
(f) Postal Services.--The Commission may use the United States
mails in the same manner and under the same conditions as other
departments and agencies of the Federal Government.
SEC. 415. COMMISSION PERSONNEL MATTERS.
(a) Compensation of Members.--
(1) Non-federal members.--Except as provided under
subsection (b), each member of the Commission who is not an
officer or employee of the Federal Government shall not be
compensated.
(2) Federal officers or employees.--All members of the
Commission who are officers or employees of the United States
shall serve without compensation in addition to that received
for their services as officers or employees of the United
States.
(b) Travel Expenses.--The members of the Commission shall be
allowed travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, at
rates authorized for employees of agencies under subchapter I of
chapter 57 of title 5, United States Code, while away from their homes
or regular places of business in the performance of services for the
Commission.
(c) Staff.--
(1) In general.--The chairperson of the Commission may,
appoint an executive director and such other additional
personnel as may be necessary to enable the Commission to
perform its duties. The employment of an executive director
shall be subject to confirmation by the Commission.
(2) Compensation.--Upon the approval of the chairperson,
the executive director may fix the compensation of the
executive director and other personnel without regard to
chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of title 5, United
States Code, relating to classification of positions and
General Schedule pay rates, except that the rate of pay for the
executive director and other personnel may not exceed the
maximum rate payable for a position at GS-15 of the General
Schedule under section 5332 of such title.
(3) Personnel as federal employees.--
(A) In general.--The executive director and any
personnel of the Commission who are employees shall be
employees under section 2105 of title 5, United States
Code, for purposes of chapters 63, 81, 83, 84, 85, 87,
89, 89A, 89B, and 90 of that title.
(B) Members of commission.--Subparagraph (A) shall
not be construed to apply to members of the Commission.
(d) Detail of Government Employees.--Any Federal Government
employee may be detailed to the Commission without reimbursement from
the Commission, and such detail shall be without interruption or loss
of civil service status or privilege.
(e) Procurement of Temporary and Intermittent Services.--The
chairperson of the Commission may procure temporary and intermittent
services under section 3109(b) of title 5, United States Code, at rates
for individuals which do not exceed the daily equivalent of the annual
rate of basic pay prescribed for level V of the Executive Schedule
under section 5316 of such title.
SEC. 416. EXPEDITED CONSIDERATION OF REFORM PROPOSALS.
(a) Introduction and Committee Consideration.--
(1) Introduction.--The Commission bill language provisions
submitted pursuant to section 413(b)(3) shall be introduced in
the Senate by the majority leader, or the majority leader's
designee, and in the House of Representatives, by the Speaker,
or the Speaker's designee. Upon such introduction, the
Commission bill shall be referred to the appropriate committees
of Congress under paragraph (2). If the Commission bill is not
introduced in accordance with the preceding sentence, then any
member of Congress may introduce the Commission bill in their
respective House of Congress beginning on the date that is the
5th calendar day that such House is in session following the
date of the submission of such aggregate legislative language
provisions.
(2) Committee consideration.--
(A) Referral.--A Commission bill introduced under
paragraph (1) shall be referred to any appropriate
committee of jurisdiction in the Senate, any
appropriate committee of jurisdiction in the House of
Representatives, the Committee on the Budget of the
Senate and the Committee on the Budget of the House of
Representatives. A committee to which a Commission bill
is referred under this paragraph may review and comment
on such bill, may report such bill to the respective
House, and may not amend such bill.
(B) Reporting.--Not later than 30 calendar days
after the introduction of the Commission bill, each
Committee of Congress to which the Commission bill was
referred shall report the bill.
(C) Discharge of committee.--If a committee to
which is referred a Commission bill has not reported
such Commission bill at the end of 30 calendar days
after its introduction or at the end of the first day
after there has been reported to the House involved a
Commission bill, whichever is earlier, such committee
shall be deemed to be discharged from further
consideration of such Commission bill, and such
Commission bill shall be placed on the appropriate
calendar of the House involved.
(b) Expedited Procedure.--
(1) Consideration.--
(A) In general.--Not later than 7 calendar days
after the date on which a committee has been discharged
from consideration of a Commission bill, the majority
leader of the Senate, or the majority leader's
designee, or the Speaker of the House of
Representatives, or the Speaker's designee, shall move
to proceed to the consideration of the Commission bill.
It shall also be in order for any member of the Senate
or the House of Representatives, respectively, to move
to proceed to the consideration of the Commission bill
at any time after the conclusion of such 7-day period.
(B) Motion to proceed.--A motion to proceed to the
consideration of a Commission bill is highly privileged
in the House of Representatives and is privileged in
the Senate and is not debatable. The motion is not
subject to amendment, to a motion to postpone
consideration of the Commission bill, or to a motion to
proceed to the consideration of other business. A
motion to reconsider the vote by which the motion to
proceed is agreed to or not agreed to shall not be in
order. If the motion to proceed is agreed to, the
Senate or the House of Representatives, as the case may
be, shall immediately proceed to consideration of the
Commission bill without intervening motion, order, or
other business, and the Commission bill shall remain
the unfinished business of the Senate or the House of
Representatives, as the case may be, until disposed of.
(C) Limited debate.--Debate on the Commission bill
and on all debatable motions and appeals in connection
therewith shall be limited to not more than 10 hours,
which shall be divided equally between those favoring
and those opposing the Commission bill. A motion
further to limit debate on the Commission bill is in
order and is not debatable. All time used for
consideration of the Commission bill, including time
used for quorum calls (except quorum calls immediately
preceding a vote) and voting, shall come from the 10
hours of debate.
(D) Amendments.--No amendment to the Commission
bill shall be in order in the Senate and the House of
Representatives.
(E) Vote on final passage.--Immediately following
the conclusion of the debate on the Commission bill,
the vote on final passage of the Commission bill shall
occur.
(F) Other motions not in order.--A motion to
postpone consideration of the Commission bill, a motion
to proceed to the consideration of other business, or a
motion to recommit the Commission bill is not in order.
A motion to reconsider the vote by which the Commission
bill is agreed to or not agreed to is not in order.
(2) Consideration by other house.--If, before the passage
by one House of the Commission bill that was introduced in such
House, such House receives from the other House a Commission
bill as passed by such other House--
(A) the Commission bill of the other House shall
not be referred to a committee and may only be
considered for final passage in the House that receives
it under subparagraph (C);
(B) the procedure in the House in receipt of the
Commission bill of the other House, with respect to the
Commission bill that was introduced in the House in
receipt of the Commission bill of the other House,
shall be the same as if no Commission bill had been
received from the other House; and
(C) notwithstanding subparagraph (B), the vote on
final passage shall be on the Commission bill of the
other House.
Upon disposition of a Commission bill that is received by one
House from the other House, it shall no longer be in order to
consider the Commission bill that was introduced in the
receiving House.
(c) Rules of the Senate and the House of Representatives.--This
section is enacted by Congress--
(1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the Senate
and the House of Representatives, respectively, and is deemed
to be part of the rules of each House, respectively, but
applicable only with respect to the procedure to be followed in
that House in the case of a Commission bill, and it supersedes
other rules only to the extent that it is inconsistent with
such rules; and
(2) with full recognition of the constitutional right of
either House to change the rules (so far as they relate to the
procedure of that House) at any time, in the same manner, and
to the same extent as in the case of any other rule of that
House.
SEC. 417. TERMINATION OF THE COMMISSION.
The Commission shall terminate 90 days after the date on which the
Commission submits the final evaluation and plan report under section
413.
SEC. 418. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.
There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be
necessary for carrying out this Act for each of the fiscal years 2007
through 2011.
TITLE V--BUDGET PROCESS REFORMS
SEC. 501. DEFINITIONS.
Section 3 of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act
of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 622) is amended by--
(1) redesignating paragraphs (3) through (10) as paragraphs
(7) through (14), respectively;
(2) adding after paragraph (3) the following:
``(3) Direct spending.--The term `direct spending' means--
``(A) budget authority provided by law other than
appropriation Acts;
``(B) mandatory spending provided in appropriation
Acts; and
``(C) entitlement authority.
``(4) Discretionary appropriations.--The term
`discretionary appropriations' means budgetary resources
(except to fund direct spending programs) provided in
appropriation Acts.
``(5) Governmental receipts.--The term `governmental
receipts' means revenue or collections from the public based on
the government's exercise of its sovereign powers, including
but not limited to individual and corporate income taxes,
social insurance taxes, customs, duties, fines, compulsory
license fees, deposits of earnings by the Federal Reserve
System, tariffs, other fees, miscellaneous receipts, gifts, and
contributions.
``(6) Secondary or indirect effects.--The term `secondary
or indirect effects' means changes in direct spending or
government receipts other than the direct, observable effects
of changes in legislation on related accounts, including--
``(A) the impact of changes in spending legislation
on Federal tax receipts or the impact of changes in
Federal tax laws on total Federal spending; or
``(B) the impacts on spending or government
receipts if there is no statutory connection or
established interaction between a legislative proposal
and its impact on the operation of current law.''; and
(3) adding at the end the following:
``(15) Budget year.--The term `budget year' means, with
respect to a session of Congress, the fiscal year of the
Government that starts on October 1 of the calendar year in
which that session begins.
``(16) Current year.--The term `current year' means, with
respect to a budget year, the fiscal year that immediately
precedes that budget year.''.
SEC. 502. ANNUAL CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ON THE BUDGET.
Section 301 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 632)
is amended--
(1) in subsection (a)--
(A) in paragraph (2), by striking ``Federal
revenues'' both places it appears and inserting
``governmental receipts'';
(B) in paragraph (4), by striking ``major
functional category'' and inserting ``standing, select,
or special committee of the House of Representatives
and the Senate, as appropriate,'';
(C) in paragraphs (6) and (7), by striking ``For''
and inserting ``for''; and
(D) in the matter following paragraph (7), by
striking ``old age'' and inserting ``old-age''.
(2) in subsection (b)--
(A) in paragraph (3), by striking ``entitlement
authority'' and inserting ``direct spending''; and
(B) in paragraph (7), by inserting ``is described
in detail to allow the Chairman of the Committee on the
Budget to determine whether it qualifies for such
revision and the legislation'' after ``that
legislation'';
(3) in subsection (d)--
(A) in the caption, by striking ``and estimates
of'' and inserting ``, estimates, and recommendations
for deficit reduction from all'';
(B) in the first sentence, by striking ``its
views'' and inserting ``its specific recommendations
for changes in law within the jurisdiction of the
committee making the submission that result in deficit
reduction and its views''; and
(C) in the third sentence, by striking ``or
functions''; and
(4) in subsection (e)--
(A) in paragraph (2)--
(i) by redesignating subparagraphs (B)
through (D) as subparagraphs (C) through (E),
respectively;
(ii) by redesignating subparagraphs (E) and
(F) as subparagraphs (G) and (H), respectively;
(iii) by inserting after subparagraph (A)
the following:
``(B) with respect to the Committee on
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and
Senate, an estimate of total new budget authority and
total outlays with the estimates divided between
discretionary and mandatory amounts''; and
(iv) by adding after subparagraph (E), as
redesignated, the following:
``(F) with respect to each standing, select, or
special committee of the House of Representatives and
Senate, an estimate of governmental receipts within the
jurisdiction of that committee;''; and
(B) in paragraph (3)(B), by--
(i) striking ``Federal revenues'' and
inserting ``governmental receipts''; and
(ii) striking ``such revenues'' and insert
``such governmental receipts''.
SEC. 503. COMMITTEE ALLOCATIONS.
Section 302 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C.
633(a)) is amended--
(1) in subsection (a), by striking paragraph (3) and
inserting the following:
``(3) Further division of amounts in the house.--The
amounts allocated to each committee of the House of
Representatives for each fiscal year, other than the Committee
on Appropriations, shall be further divided between amounts
provided or required by law on the date of filing of that
conference report and amounts not so provided or required. The
amounts allocated to the Committee on Appropriations shall be
further divided between discretionary and mandatory amounts or
programs, as appropriate.''; and
(2) in subsection (g)(2), by striking ``committee'' and
inserting ``Committee''.
SEC. 504. BUDGET RESOLUTION ADOPTION.
Section 303(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C.
634(a)) is amended to read as follows:
``(a) In General.--Beginning on the first day of a new session of
Congress, and until the concurrent resolution for the fiscal year
beginning in October of the year the new session of Congress begins, it
shall not be in order to consider with respect to the budget year
covered by that resolution, any bill or joint resolution, amendment or
motion thereto, or conference report thereon that--
``(1) provides budget authority for the budget year;
``(2) provides an increase or decrease in governmental
receipts during the budget year;
``(3) provides an increase or decrease in the public debt
limit for the budget year;
``(4) in the Senate only, provides new direct spending for
the budget year; or
``(5) in the Senate only, provides for an increase or
decrease in outlays for the budget year.''.
SEC. 505. CONSIDERATION OF THE BUDGET RESOLUTION.
Section 305 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 636)
is amended by--
(1) redesignating subsection (d) as subsection (e); and
(2) striking subsections (b) and (c) and inserting the
following:
``(b) Procedure in Senate After Report of Committee; Consideration;
Amendments.--
``(1) Consideration in the Senate on any concurrent
resolution on the budget, and all amendments thereto and
debatable motions and appeals in connection therewith, shall be
limited to not more than 50 hours, except that with respect to
any concurrent resolution referred to in section 304 all such
debate shall be limited to not more than 15 hours. The time
shall be equally divided between, and controlled by, the
majority leader and the minority leader or their designees.
``(2) Debate in the Senate on any amendment to a concurrent
resolution on the budget shall be limited to 2 hours, to be
equally divided between, and controlled by, the mover and the
manager of the concurrent resolution, and debate on any
amendment to an amendment, debatable motion, or appeal shall be
limited to 1 hour to be equally divided between, and controlled
by, the mover and the manager of the concurrent resolution,
except that in the event the manager of the concurrent
resolution is in favor of any such amendment, motion, or
appeal, the time in opposition thereto shall be controlled by
the minority leader or his designee. No dilatory motion, or
dilatory amendment shall be in order. Amendments that are not
germane to the provisions of such concurrent resolution shall
not be in order. For the purpose of this Act, amendments that
are predominantly precatory shall not be in order. Such
managers, or either leader, may, from the time under their
control on the consideration of the concurrent resolution,
allot additional time to any Senator during the consideration
of any amendment, debatable motion, or appeal.
``(3) Following the presentation of opening statements on
the concurrent resolution on the budget for a fiscal year by
the chairman and ranking minority member of the Committee on
the Budget of the Senate, there shall be a period of up to 4
hours for debate on economic goals and policies.
``(4) Subject to the other limitations of this Act, only if
a concurrent resolution on the budget reported by the Committee
on the Budget of the Senate sets forth the economic goals (as
described in sections 3(a)(2) and 4(b) of the Employment Act of
1946) which the estimates, amounts, and levels (as described in
section 301(a)) set forth in such resolution are designed to
achieve, shall it be in order to offer to such resolution an
amendment relating to such goals, and such amendment shall be
in order only if it also proposes to alter such estimates,
amounts, and levels in germane fashion in order to be
consistent with the goals proposed in such amendment.
``(5) A motion to further limit consideration is not
debatable. A motion to recommit (except a motion to recommit
with instructions to report back within a specified number of
days, not to exceed 3, not counting any day on which the Senate
is not in session) is not in order. Debate on any such motion
to recommit shall be limited to 1 hour, to be equally divided
between, and controlled by, the mover and the manager of the
concurrent resolution.
``(6) Notwithstanding any other rule, an amendment or
series of amendments to a concurrent resolution on the budget
proposed in the Senate shall always be in order if such
amendment or series of amendments proposes to change any figure
or figures then contained in such concurrent resolution so as
to make such concurrent resolution mathematically consistent or
so as to maintain such consistency.
``(c) Request for Conference in the Senate.--Consideration of all
motions in relation to a request for a conference with the House of
Representatives shall be limited to not more than 1 hour and debate on
a motion to instruct the conferees shall be limited to 20 minutes to be
equally divided between, and controlled by, the mover and the manager
of the concurrent resolution, except that in the event the manager of
the concurrent resolution is in favor of any such amendment, motion, or
appeal, the time in opposition thereto shall be controlled by the
minority leader or his designee.
``(d) Action on Conference Reports in the Senate.--
``(1) A motion to proceed to the consideration of the
conference report on any concurrent resolution on the budget
(or a reconciliation bill or resolution) may be made even
though a previous motion to the same effect has been disagreed
to.
``(2) During the consideration in the Senate of a
conference report (including a message between Houses) on any
concurrent resolution on the budget, including all amendments
in disagreement, and all amendments thereto, and debatable
motions and appeals in connection therewith, consideration
shall be limited to 10 hours, to be equally divided between,
and controlled by, the majority leader and minority leader or
their designees. Debate on any debatable motion or appeal
related to the conference report (or a message between Houses)
shall be limited to 1 hour, to be equally divided between, and
controlled by, the mover and the manager of the conference
report (or a message between Houses).
``(3) Should the conference report be defeated,
consideration of any request for a new conference and the
appointment of conferees shall be limited to 1 hour, to be
equally divided between, and controlled by, the manager of the
conference report and the minority leader or his designee, and
should any motion be made to instruct the conferees before the
conferees are named, debate on such motion shall be limited to
20 minutes, to be equally divided between, and controlled by,
the mover and the manager of the conference report. Debate on
any amendment to any such instructions shall be limited to 10
minutes, to be equally divided between and controlled by the
mover and the manager of the conference report. In all cases
when the manager of the conference report is in favor of any
motion, appeal, or amendment, the time in opposition shall be
under the control of the minority leader or his designee.
``(4) In any case in which there are amendments in
disagreement, the time for debate on each amendment shall be
limited to 30 minutes, to be equally divided between, and
controlled by, the manager of the conference report and the
minority leader or his designee. No amendment that is not
germane to the provisions of such amendments shall be
received.''.
SEC. 506. BUDGET PROJECTIONS.
Section 308(c) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C.
639(c)) is amended--
(1) in paragraph (2), by striking ``revenues'' and
inserting ``governmental receipts''; and
(2) in paragraph (4), by striking ``entitlement'' and
inserting ``direct spending''.
SEC. 507. RECONCILIATION.
Section 310 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 641)
is amended--
(1) in subsection (a), by striking paragraphs (1) and (2)
and inserting the following:
``(1) specify the total amount by which--
``(A) new budget authority;
``(B) budget authority;
``(C) new direct spending authority; and
``(D) governmental receipts other than income
taxes, estate and gift taxes, excise taxes or payroll
taxes, or tariffs;
contained in laws, bills, and resolutions within the
jurisdiction of a committee is to be changed for any of the
fiscal years covered by the resolution and direct that
committee to determine and recommend changes to accomplish a
change of such total amount;
``(2) specify the total amount by which governmental
receipts including income taxes, estate and gift taxes, excise
taxes or social insurance taxes, miscellaneous receipts, or
tariffs are to be changed and direct that the committees having
jurisdiction to determine and recommend changes in the
governmental receipt laws, bills, and resolutions to accomplish
a change of such total amount;'';
(2) by striking subsection (b) and inserting the following:
``(b) Legislative Procedure.--
``(1) If a conference report on a concurrent resolution
containing reconciliation instructions to 1 or more committees
to determine and recommend changes in laws, bills, or
resolutions is agreed to in accordance with subsection (a)--
``(A) each such committee so instructed shall
promptly make such determination and recommendations
and submit such recommendations to the Committee on the
Budget of its House, which upon receiving all such
recommendations, shall report to its House
reconciliation legislation carrying out all such
recommendations without any substantive revision; and
``(B) in the event that any committee fails to
comply with its instruction, then the Committees on the
Budget may report amendments recommending changes
within the jurisdiction of the noncompliant committee
to achieve the changes contained in the instruction.
``(2) For purposes of this subsection, a reconciliation
resolution is a concurrent resolution directing the Clerk of
the House of Representatives or the Secretary of the Senate, as
the case may be, to make specified changes in bills and
resolutions which have not been enrolled.'';
(3) in subsection (c), by adding at the end the following:
``(3) Secondary or indirect effects of the legislative
recommendations submitted by any committee of the House of
Representatives or the Senate that is instructed pursuant to a
concurrent resolution on the budget, shall be attributed to the
committee proposing the change in law, but shall not be considered for
the purpose of determining compliance with such instructions.'';
(4) by striking paragraphs (1) through (4) of subsection
(d) and inserting the following:
``(1) It shall not be in order in the House of Representatives to
consider any amendment to a reconciliation bill or reconciliation
resolution if such amendment would have the effect of increasing any
specific budget outlays above the level of such outlays provided in the
bill or resolution (for the fiscal years covered by the reconciliation
instructions set forth in the most recently agreed to concurrent
resolution on the budget), or would have the effect of reducing any
specific governmental receipts below the level of such governmental
receipts provided in the bill or resolution (for such fiscal years),
unless such amendment makes at least an equivalent reduction in other
specific budget outlays, an equivalent increase in other specific
governmental receipts, or an equivalent combination thereof (for such
fiscal years), except that a motion to strike a provision providing new
budget authority or new entitlement authority may be in order.
``(2) It shall not be in order in the Senate to consider any
amendment to a reconciliation bill or reconciliation resolution if such
amendment would have the effect of decreasing any specific budget
outlay reductions below the level of such outlay reductions provided
(for the fiscal years covered) in the reconciliation instructions which
relate to such bill or resolution set forth in a resolution providing
for reconciliation, or would have the effect of reducing governmental
receipts increases below the level of such increases in such
governmental receipts provided (for such fiscal years) in such
instructions relating to such bill or resolution, unless such amendment
makes a reduction in other specific budget outlays, an increase in
other specific governmental receipts, or a combination thereof (for
such fiscal years) at least equivalent to any increase in outlays or
decrease in governmental receipts provided by such amendment, except
that a motion to strike a provision shall always be in order.
``(3) Paragraphs (1) and (2) shall not apply if a declaration of
war by the Congress is in effect.
``(4) For purposes of this section, the levels of budget authority,
outlays, and governmental receipts for a fiscal year shall be
determined on the basis of estimates made by the Committee on the
Budget of the House of Representatives or of the Senate, as the case
may be.''; and
(5) in subsection (e)--
(A) in paragraph (1), by inserting ``, motions in
relation to a request for conference,'' after ``under
subsection (b)''; and
(B) in paragraph (2), by striking ``Debate'' and
inserting ``Consideration''.
SEC. 508. BUDGETING LEVELS.
Section 311(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2
U.S.C.642(a)) is amended--
(1) in the matter after subparagraph (C) in paragraph (1),
by striking ``total revenues'' and inserting ``total
governmental receipts''; and
(2) in paragraph (2)(B), by striking ``revenues'' and
inserting ``governmental receipts''.
SEC. 509. DETERMINATIONS AND POINTS OF ORDER.
(a) In General.--Section 312 of the Congressional Budget Act of
1974 (2 U.S.C. 643) is amended--
(1) in subsection (a), by striking ``revenues'' and
inserting ``governmental receipts'';
(2) by striking subsections (b) and (c);
(3) by redesignating subsections (d) through (f) as
subsections (b) through (d), respectively; and
(4) by adding at the end the following:
``(e) Congressional Budget Office Score for Conference Reports.--It
shall not be in order to consider a report of a committee of conference
unless an official written cost estimate or table by the Congressional
Budget Office is available at the time of consideration.''.
(b) Supermajority Points of Order.--Subsections (c)(1) and (d)(2)
of section 904 of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act
of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 621 note) are amended by--
(1) inserting ``312(e),'' after ``310(d)(2),''; and
(2) nserting ``and section 223 of the Stop Over Spending
Act of 2006'' after ``of this Act''.
SEC. 510. EXTRANEOUS MATTER IN RECONCILIATION LEGISLATION.
Section 313 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 644)
is amended--
(1) in subsection (a) by striking ``or section 258C''
through ``1985'';
(2) in subsection (b), by--
(A) striking paragraph (1) and inserting the
following:
``(1)(A) Except as provided in paragraph (2), a provision of a
reconciliation bill or reconciliation resolution considered pursuant to
section 310 shall be considered extraneous if such provision does not
produce a change in outlays or governmental receipts, including changes
in outlays and governmental receipts brought about by changes in the
terms and conditions under which outlays are made or governmental
receipts are required to be collected (but a provision in which outlay
decreases or governmental receipts increases exactly offset outlay
increases or governmental receipts decreases shall not be considered
extraneous by virtue of this subparagraph); (B) except with respect to
consideration of conference reports, any provision producing an
increase in outlays or decrease in governmental receipts shall be
considered extraneous if the net effect of provisions reported by the
committee reporting the title containing the provision is that the
committee fails to achieve its reconciliation instructions, or if the
increase in outlays or decreases in governmental receipts exceeds 20
percent of the total change required in a committee's instruction; (C)
a provision that is not in the jurisdiction of the Committee with
jurisdiction over said title or provision shall be considered
extraneous (except that amendments reported by the Committee on the
Budget to achieve compliance with reconciliation instructions shall not
be extraneous); (D) a provision shall be considered to be extraneous if
it increases, or would increase, net outlays, or if it decreases, or
would decrease governmental receipts during a fiscal year after the
fiscal years covered by such reconciliation bill or reconciliation
resolution, and such increases or decreases are greater than outlay
reductions or governmental receipts increases resulting from other
provisions in such title in such year; and (E) a provision shall be
considered extraneous if it violates section 310(g).''; and
(B) adding at the end the following:
``(4) Technical and conforming provisions shall not be considered
extraneous under this section.''; and
(3) in subsection (d)(1), by striking ``(b)(1)(E), or
(b)(1)(F)'' and inserting ``(b)(1)(E)''.
SEC. 511. ADJUSTMENTS.
Title III of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 621 et
seq.) is amended by--
(1) striking section 314; and
(2) redesignating section 315 as section 314.
SEC. 512. DIRECT SPENDING LIMITATION.
Title III of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 621 et
seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following:
``direct spending limitation
``Sec. 315. (a) In General.--The chairman of the Committee on the
Budget of the Senate may submit to the Senate a notification of a
Medicare funding warning if the chairman projects that within 7 years
General Fund of the Treasury contributions to Medicare funding,
expressed as a percentage of total Medicare outlays, will exceed 45
percent.
``(b) Point of Order.--It shall not be in order to consider any
bill, joint resolution, amendment or conference report that would cause
any increase in direct spending, net of proposals to change direct
spending, receipts, or revenues contained in the measure, if a Medicare
Funding warning has been submitted to the Senate pursuant to subsection
(a) for 2 consecutive calendar years.
``(c) Waiver.--This section may be waived or suspended only by an
affirmative vote of three-fifths of the members, duly chosen and sworn.
``(d) Appeals.--An affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members,
duly chosen and sworn, shall be required to sustain an appeal of the
ruling of the Chair on a point of order raised under this section.
``(e) Determinations.--For the purposes of this section, the
determination of whether Medicare funding warrants a funding warning
and when it may be appropriate to withdraw such warning, as well as the
levels of net direct spending as required under subsection (b), shall
be provided by the chairman of the Committee on the Budget.
``(f) Cancellations.--If legislation is enacted to reduce the
general fund contribution below 45 percent, as determined by the
chairman of the Committee on the Budget, any notification of a Medicare
funding warning is withdrawn.''.
SEC. 513. APPROPRIATIONS REQUESTS OF THE PRESIDENT.
Section 1108(e) of title 31, United States Code, is amended by
striking ``Congress or a'' and inserting ``Congress and a''.
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Introduced in Senate
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5958-5961)
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Budget.
Committee on the Budget. Ordered to be reported with an amendment favorably.
Committee on the Budget. Reported by Senator Gregg with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 109-283. Additional and Minority views filed.
Committee on the Budget. Reported by Senator Gregg with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 109-283. Additional and Minority views filed.
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 520.
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