Within Our Means Budget (WOMB) Act of 2009

Within Our Means Budget (WOMB) Act of 2009 - Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to eliminate sequential and cumulative adjustments for inflation from Congressional Budget Office (CBO) baseline projections for discretionary appropriations with respect to: (1) expiring housing contracts and social insurance administrative expenses; (2) offset pay absorption and pay annualization; (3) inflation; and (4) any accounting for changes required by law in the level of agency payments for personnel benefits other than pay.

Exempts from the requirement that budgetary resources (other than unobligated balances) be at the level available in the current year any resources designated as an emergency requirement or provided in supplemental appropriations laws.

Prohibits adjustments for inflation or or any other factor.

Amends the Act to extend indefinitely the formula used to calculate the baseline.

[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4408 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4408

To amend the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 
   to eliminate automatic increases for inflation from CBO baseline 
 projections for discretionary appropriations, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 19, 2009

 Mr. Gohmert (for himself, Mr. Akin, Mrs. Bachmann, Mr. Bartlett, Mrs. 
  Blackburn, Mr. Brown of South Carolina, Mr. Burton of Indiana, Ms. 
 Fallin, Mr. Fleming, Ms. Foxx, Mr. Garrett of New Jersey, Mr. Gingrey 
  of Georgia, Mr. Hensarling, Mr. Issa, Mr. Sam Johnson of Texas, Mr. 
King of Iowa, Mr. Kingston, Mr. Lamborn, Mr. McClintock, Mr. Pitts, Mr. 
  Scalise, and Mr. Shadegg) introduced the following bill; which was 
                referred to the Committee on the Budget

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 
   to eliminate automatic increases for inflation from CBO baseline 
 projections for discretionary appropriations, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Within Our Means Budget (WOMB) Act 
of 2009'', whereas from passage of this bill will come a new birth of 
freedom for American taxpayers and an end to the automatic increases 
for each department that have been bankrupting America.

SEC. 2. CHANGES IN THE BASELINE.

    Section 257(c) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 
Act of 1985 is amended--
            (1) in the second sentence of paragraph (1), by striking 
        everything that follows ``current year,'' and inserting 
        ``excluding resources designated as an emergency requirement 
        and any resources provided in supplemental appropriation 
        laws.'';
            (2) by striking paragraphs (2), (3), (4), and (5);
            (3) by redesignating paragraph (6) as paragraph (2); and
            (4) by inserting after paragraph (2) the following new 
        paragraph:
            ``(3) No adjustment for inflation.--No adjustment shall be 
        made for inflation or for any other factor.''.

SEC. 3. EXTENSION.

    The second sentence of section 275(b) of the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 is amended by inserting ``other 
than subsections (a) through (d) of section 257'' after ``title''.
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