Spending Reduction Act - Requires the head of each executive agency to submit to the President and Congress a report on the implementation of recommendations made by specified Government Accountability Office (GAO) reports on reducing duplication in government programs, achieving savings, and enhancing revenue.
Requires: (1) such agency reports to include recommendations by the agency heads for actions that should be taken as a result of such GAO reports; and (2) agency heads to begin implementation of such recommendations in order to eliminate, consolidate, streamline, or better coordinate government programs and agencies with duplicative, overlapping, or fragmented missions identified in the GAO reports, unless Congress enacts a joint resolution disapproving them.
[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
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[H.R. 2250 Introduced in House (IH)]
113th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 2250
To require the head of each executive agency to submit a report on the
implementation of Government Accountability Office reports on reducing
duplication, achieving savings, and enhancing revenue within the
Federal Government.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
June 4, 2013
Mr. Owens (for himself, Mr. Renacci, and Mrs. Bustos) introduced the
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and
Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, for a
period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for
consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the
committee concerned
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A BILL
To require the head of each executive agency to submit a report on the
implementation of Government Accountability Office reports on reducing
duplication, achieving savings, and enhancing revenue within the
Federal Government.
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 ``Spending Reduction Act''.
SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT FOR AGENCY REPORTS ON REDUCING DUPLICATION,
ACHIEVING SAVINGS, AND ENHANCING REVENUE.
(a) Report Requirement.--Not later than 90 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the head of each executive agency shall
submit to the President and Congress a report on the implementation of
recommendations made by the following reports of the Government
Accountability Office:
(1) The March 2011 Government Accountability Office report
to Congress titled ``Opportunities to Reduce Potential
Duplication in Government Programs, Save Tax Dollars, and
Enhance Revenue'' (GAO-11-318SP).
(2) The February 2012 Government Accountability Office
report to Congress titled ``Opportunities to Reduce
Duplication, Overlap and Fragmentation, Achieve Savings, and
Enhance Revenue'' (GAO-12-342SP).
(3) The April 2013 Government Accountability Office report
to Congress titled ``Actions Needed to Reduce Fragmentation,
Overlap, and Duplication and Achieve Other Financial Benefits''
(GAO-13-279SP).
(b) Matters Covered in Reports.--Each report required by subsection
(a) shall include the following:
(1) A discussion by the head of the executive agency of
matters on which the agency agrees, disagrees, or partially
agrees with the Government Accountability Office, and
recommendations by the head of the agency for actions that
should be taken in the agency as a result of the reports
described in subsection (a).
(2) An opinion by the Comptroller General of the United
States on whether each such recommendation by the head of the
executive agency under paragraph (1) is consistent with the
intent of the Government Accountability Office reports
described in subsection (a).
(3) A proposal for legislative changes, if any, necessary
to implement the recommendations by the head of the executive
agency under paragraph (1).
(4) A statement of the annual impact on costs to the
Federal Government, including cost savings, expected to occur
as a result of the implementation of such recommendations.
(5) Such other information as the head of the executive
agency determines appropriate.
SEC. 3. IMPLEMENTATION.
(a) Implementation.--Not later than 150 days after the date of the
enactment of this Act, the head of each executive agency shall begin to
implement the recommendations submitted in the report by the head of
that agency under section 2, in order to eliminate, consolidate,
streamline, or better coordinate Government programs and agencies with
duplicative, overlapping, or fragmented missions identified in the
Government Accountability Office reports described in section 2(a).
(b) Congressional Disapproval.--
(1) The head of an executive agency may not carry out any
recommendations contained in the report submitted to Congress
under section 2 by the head of the agency if a joint resolution
is enacted, in accordance with the provisions of section 4,
disapproving such recommendations before the earlier of--
(A) the end of the 45-day period beginning on the
date on which the head of the executive agency submits
such report; or
(B) the adjournment of Congress sine die for the
session during which such report is submitted.
(2) For purposes of paragraph (1) of this subsection and
subsections (a) and (b) of section 4, the days on which either
House of Congress is not in session because of an adjournment
of more than three days to a day certain shall be excluded in
the computation of a period.
SEC. 4. CONGRESSIONAL CONSIDERATION OF EXECUTIVE AGENCY REPORT.
(a) Terms of the Resolution.--For purposes of section 3(b), the
term ``joint resolution'' means only a joint resolution which is
introduced within the 10-day period beginning on the date on which the
head of an executive agency submits the report relating to that
executive agency to Congress under section 2, and--
(1) which does not have a preamble;
(2) the matter after the resolving clause of which is as
follows: ``That Congress disapproves the recommendations as
submitted by _____ on _____'', the first blank space being
filled in with the title of the head of the executive agency
submitting the report, and the second blank space being filled
in with the appropriate date; and
(3) the title of which is as follows: ``Joint resolution
disapproving the recommendations of the ______.'', the blank
space being filled in with the title of the head of the
executive agency submitting the report.
(b) Referral.--A resolution described in subsection (a) that is
introduced in the House of Representatives shall be referred to the
committee with jurisdiction over the executive agency concerned. A
resolution described in subsection (a) introduced in the Senate shall
be referred to the committee with jurisdiction over the executive
agency concerned.
(c) Discharge.--If the committee to which a resolution described in
subsection (a) is referred has not reported such a resolution (or an
identical resolution) by the end of the 20-day period beginning on the
date on which the head of the executive agency concerned submits the
report to the Congress under section 2, such committee shall be, at the
end of such period, discharged from further consideration of such
resolution, and such resolution shall be placed on the appropriate
calendar of the House involved.
(d) Consideration.--(1) On or after the third day after the date on
which the committee to which such a resolution is referred has
reported, or has been discharged (under subsection (c)) from further
consideration of, such a resolution, it is in order (even though a
previous motion to the same effect has been disagreed to) for any
Member of the respective House to move to proceed to the consideration
of the resolution. A Member may make the motion only on the day after
the calendar day on which the Member announces to the House concerned
the Member's intention to make the motion, except that, in the case of
the House of Representatives, the motion may be made without such prior
announcement if the motion is made by direction of the committee to
which the resolution was referred. All points of order against the
resolution (and against consideration of the resolution) are waived.
The motion 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, or to a motion to postpone, or to a motion to
proceed to the consideration of other business. A motion to reconsider
the vote by which the motion is agreed to or disagreed to shall not be
in order. If a motion to proceed to the consideration of the resolution
is agreed to, the respective House shall immediately proceed to
consideration of the joint resolution without intervening motion,
order, or other business, and the resolution shall remain the
unfinished business of the respective House until disposed of.
(2) Debate on the resolution, and on all debatable motions and
appeals in connection therewith, shall be limited to not more than 2
hours, which shall be divided equally between those favoring and those
opposing the resolution. An amendment to the resolution is not in
order. A motion further to limit debate is in order and not debatable.
A motion to postpone, or a motion to proceed to the consideration of
other business, or a motion to recommit the resolution is not in order.
A motion to reconsider the vote by which the resolution is agreed to or
disagreed to is not in order.
(3) Immediately following the conclusion of the debate on a
resolution described in subsection (a) and a single quorum call at the
conclusion of the debate if requested in accordance with the rules of
the appropriate House, the vote on final passage of the resolution
shall occur.
(4) Appeals from the decisions of the Chair relating to the
application of the rules of the Senate or the House of Representatives,
as the case may be, to the procedure relating to a resolution described
in subsection (a) shall be decided without debate.
(e) Consideration by Other House.--(1) If, before the passage by
one House of a resolution of that House described in subsection (a),
that House receives from the other House a resolution described in
subsection (a), then the following procedures shall apply:
(A) The resolution of the other House shall not be referred
to a committee and may not be considered in the House receiving
it except in the case of final passage as provided in
subparagraph (B)(ii).
(B) With respect to a resolution described in subsection
(a) of the House receiving the resolution--
(i) the procedure in that House shall be the same
as if no resolution had been received from the other
House; but
(ii) the vote on final passage shall be on the
resolution of the other House.
(2) Upon disposition of the resolution received from the other
House, it shall no longer be in order to consider the resolution that
originated in the receiving House.
(f) Rules of the Senate and House.--This section is enacted by
Congress--
(1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the Senate
and House of Representatives, respectively, and as such it is
deemed a 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 resolution described in subsection
(a), 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 relating 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. 5. DEFINITION.
In this Act, the term ``executive agency'' has the meaning provided
in section 133 of title 41, United States Code.
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Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
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