Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to ban congressional earmarks, limited tax benefits, and limited tariff benefits.

Amends Rule XXI (Restrictions on Certain Bills) of the Rules of the House of Representatives to make it out of order in the House to consider legislation reported or not reported by any committee, or any amendment or conference report (including any joint explanatory statement), that includes a congressional earmark or limited tax or tariff benefit.

Requires the House Committee on the Budget to determine whether a measure or matter contains any congressional earmark or limited tax or tariff benefit, relying, if it chooses, on information supplied by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).

[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 1176 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 1176

Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to ban congressional 
      earmarks, limited tax benefits, and limited tariff benefits.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 12, 2010

Mr. Hodes submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 
                           Committee on Rules

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                               RESOLUTION


 
Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to ban congressional 
      earmarks, limited tax benefits, and limited tariff benefits.

    Resolved, That clause 9 of rule XXI is amended by striking 
paragraphs (a) through (d), by redesignating paragraphs (e), (f), and 
(g) as paragraphs (c), (d), and (e), respectively, and by inserting 
before paragraph (b) the following new paragraphs:
    ``(a) It shall not be in order to consider--
            ``(1) a bill or joint resolution reported by a committee if 
        it or the accompanying report contains a congressional earmark, 
        limited tax benefit, or limited tariff benefit;
            ``(2) a bill or joint resolution not reported by a 
        committee if it contains a congressional earmark, limited tax 
        benefit, or limited tariff benefit;
            ``(3) an amendment to a bill or joint resolution if it 
        contains a congressional earmark, limited tax benefit, or 
        limited tariff benefit; or
            ``(4) a conference report to accompany a bill or joint 
        resolution if it or the accompanying joint explanatory 
        statement prepared by the managers on the part of the House on 
        the part of the Senate contains a congressional earmark, 
        limited tax benefit, or limited tariff benefit.
    ``(b) For purposes of paragraph (a), a determination of whether a 
measure or matter contains any congressional earmark, limited tax 
benefit, or limited tariff benefit shall be made by the Committee on 
the Budget, which may rely on information supplied by the Congressional 
Budget Office to that committee.''.
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