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108TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 3358

To require a balanced Federal budget by fiscal year 2009 and for each 

year thereafter, to combat waste, fraud, and abuse, to establish biennial 

budgets, to amend the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 

Act of 1985 to impose spending safeguards on the growth of entitlements 

and discretionary spending, and to enforce those requirements through 

a budget process involving the President and Congress and sequestration. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

OCTOBER 21, 2003

Mr. HENSARLING (for himself, Mr. BARRETT of South Carolina, Mr. MARIO

DIAZ-BALART of Florida, Mr. BARTON of Texas, Mr. AKIN, Mr. DEMINT, 

Mr. GOODE, Mr. MANZULLO, Mr. THORNBERRY, Mr. GUTKNECHT, Mr. 

FLAKE, Mrs. MYRICK, Mr. BEAUPREZ, Mr. FRANKS of Arizona, Mr. 

GARRETT of New Jersey, Mr. PITTS, Mr. TANCREDO, Mr. MILLER of 

Florida, Mr. CHABOT, Mr. CARTER, Mr. CULBERSON, Mr. COLE, Mr. 

SESSIONS, Mr. PENCE, Mr. SHADEGG, Mr. TERRY, Mr. WILSON of South 

Carolina, Mr. TOOMEY, Mr. SMITH of Michigan, and Mr. FEENEY) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the 

Budget, for a period ending not later than October 31, 2003, and in addition to the Committees on Rules and Government Reform, 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 

A BILL

To require a balanced Federal budget by fiscal year 2009 

and for each year thereafter, to combat waste, fraud, 

and abuse, to establish biennial budgets, to amend the 

Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act 

of 1985 to impose spending safeguards on the growth 
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of entitlements and discretionary spending, and to enforce those requirements through a budget process involving the President and Congress and sequestration.

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 

4 (a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 

5 ‘‘Family Budget Protection Act of 2003’’. 

6 (b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—

Sec. 1. Short title. 

TITLE I—BALANCED BUDGET BY FISCAL YEAR 2009

Sec. 101. Reduction of maximum deficit amount to zero. 

Sec. 102. Maximum deficit amount and limit on public debt points of order. 

Sec. 103. Adjustment in the event of negative revenue growth. 

TITLE II—DISCRETIONARY SPENDING LIMITS 

Sec. 201. Enforcing discretionary spending limits. 

Sec. 202. Establishment of family budget protection discretionary account. 

TITLE III—SPENDING CAPS ON THE GROWTH OF ENTITLEMENTS 

AND MANDATORIES 

Sec. 301. Spending caps on growth of entitlements and mandatories. 

Sec. 302. Exempt programs and activities. 

Sec. 303. Exceptions, limitations, and special rules. 

Sec. 304. Point of order. 

Sec. 305. Technical and conforming amendments. 

Sec. 306. Establishment of family budget protection mandatory account. 

TITLE IV—COMBATING WASTE, FRAUD, AND ABUSE THROUGH 

SUNSETTING 

Sec. 401. Reauthorization of discretionary programs and unearned entitlements. 

Sec. 402. Point of order. 

Sec. 403. Decennial sunsetting. 

TITLE V—JOINT BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND BIENNIAL 

BUDGETING 

Subtitle A—Joint Budget Resolutions 

Sec. 501. Joint budget resolutions. 

Subtitle B—Biennial Budgeting 
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Sec. 511. Revision of timetable. 

Sec. 512. Amendments to the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control 

Act of 1974. 

Sec. 513. Amendments to Rules of House of Representatives. 

Sec. 514. Amendments to title 31, United States Code. 

Sec. 515. Two-year appropriations; title and style of appropriation acts. 

Sec. 516. Multiyear authorizations. 

Sec. 517. Government strategic and performance plans on a biennial basis. 

Sec. 518. Biennial appropriation bills. 

Sec. 519. Assistance by Federal agencies to standing committees of the Senate 

and the House of Representatives. 

Sec. 520. Report on two-year fiscal period. 

Sec. 521. Special transition period for the 109th Congress. 

Subtitle C—Prevention of Government Shutdown 

Sec. 531. Amendment to title 31. 

Subtitle D—Effective Date 

Sec. 532. Effective date. 

TITLE VI—FURTHER ENFORCEMENT AMENDMENTS 

Sec. 601. Super-majority points of order. 

Sec. 602. Budget resolution enforcement point of order. 

Sec. 603. Point of order waiver protection.

1 TITLE I—BALANCED BUDGET BY 

2 FISCAL YEAR 2009

3 SEC. 101. REDUCTION OF MAXIMUM DEFICIT AMOUNT TO 

4 ZERO. 

5 Section 253 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 

6 Deficit Control Act of 1985 is amended to read as follows: 

7 ‘‘SEC. 253. ENFORCING DEFICIT TARGETS. 

8 ‘‘(a) SEQUESTRATION.—Within 15 calendar days 

9 after Congress adjourns to end a session (other than of 

10 the first session of the One Hundred Eighth Congress) 

11 and on the same day as a sequestration (if any) under 

12 section 251 and section 252A, but after any sequestration 

13 required by section 251 (enforcing discretionary spending 
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1 limits) or section 252A (enforcing controls on direct 

2 spending), there shall be a sequestration to eliminate the 

3 excess deficit (if any remains) if it exceeds the margin. 

4 ‘‘(b) EXCESS DEFICIT; MARGIN.—The excess deficit 

5 is, if greater than zero, the estimated deficit for the budget 

6 year, minus the maximum deficit amount for that year. 

7 The ‘margin’ for any fiscal year is $5,000,000,000. 

8 ‘‘(c) DIVIDING THE SEQUESTRATION.—To eliminate 

9 the excess deficit in a budget year, half of the required 

10 outlay reductions shall be obtained from non-exempt de11 fense accounts (accounts designated as function 050 in the 

12 President’s fiscal year 2005 budget submission) and half 

13 from non-exempt, non-defense accounts (all other non-ex14 empt accounts). 

15 ‘‘(d) DEFENSE.—Each non-exempt defense account 

16 shall be reduced by a dollar amount calculated by multi17 plying the level of sequesterable budgetary resources in 

18 that account at that time by the uniform percentage nec19 essary to carry out subsection (c). If any defense accounts 

20 are exempted by the President, no adjustments shall be 

21 made in the uniform percentage for non-exempt defense 

22 accounts. 

23 ‘‘(e) NON-DEFENSE.—Actions to reduce non-defense 

24 accounts shall be taken in the following order: 
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1 ‘‘(1) FIRST.—All reductions in automatic 

2 spending increases under section 256(a) shall be 

3 made.

4 ‘‘(2) SECOND.—If additional reductions in non5 defense accounts are required to be made, the max6 imum reduction permissible under sections 256(b) 

7 (guaranteed student loans) and 256(c) (foster care 

8 and adoption assistance) shall be made. 

9 ‘‘(3) THIRD.—(A) If additional reductions in 

10 non-defense accounts are required to be made, each 

11 remaining non-exempt, non-defense account shall be 

12 reduced by the uniform percentage necessary to 

13 make the reductions in non-defense outlays required 

14 by subsection (c), except that any program specified 

15 in section 256 that is subject to a 2-percent limita16 tion shall not be reduced by more than 2 percent in 

17 total including any reduction of less than 2 percent 

18 made under 252A, if it has been reduced by 2 per19 cent under either such section, it may not be further 

20 reduced under this section; and the uniform percent 

21 applicable to all other programs under this sub22 section shall be increased (if necessary) to a level 

23 sufficient to achieve the required reduction in non24 defense outlays. 
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1 ‘‘(B) For purposes of determining reductions 

2 under subparagraph (A), outlay reduction (as a re3 sult of sequestration of Commodity Credit Corpora4 tion commodity price support contracts in the fiscal 

5 year of a sequestration) that would occur in the fol6 lowing fiscal year shall be credited as outlay reduc7 tions in the fiscal year of the sequestration. 

8 If any defense accounts are exempted by the President, 

9 no adjustments shall be made in the uniform percentage 

10 for non-exempt non-defense accounts. 

11 ‘‘(f) BASELINE ASSUMPTIONS; PART-YEAR APPRO12 PRIATIONS.—

13 ‘‘(1) BUDGET ASSUMPTIONS.—For purposes of 

14 subsections (b), (c), (d), and (e), accounts shall be 

15 assumed to be at the level in the baseline minus any 

16 reductions required to be made under sections 251 

17 and 252A. 

18 ‘‘(2) PART-YEAR APPROPRIATIONS.—If, on the 

19 date specified in subsection (a), there is in effect an 

20 Act making or continuing appropriations for part of 

21 a fiscal year for any non-exempt budget account, 

22 then the dollar sequestration calculated for that ac23 count under subsection (d) or (e), as applicable, 

24 shall be subtracted from—
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1 ‘‘(A) the annualized amount otherwise 

2 available by law in that account under that or 

3 a subsequent part-year appropriation; and 

4 ‘‘(B) when a full-year appropriation for 

5 that account is enacted, from the amount other6 wise provided by the full-year appropriation; ex7 cept that the amount to be sequestered from 

8 that account shall be reduced (but not below 

9 zero) by the savings achieved by that appropria10 tion when the enacted amount is less than the 

11 baseline for that account. 

12 ‘‘(g) LOOK-BACK SEQUESTER.—

13 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—On July 1 of each fiscal 

14 year, the Director of OMB shall determine if laws 

15 effective during the current fiscal year will cause the 

16 deficit to exceed the maximum deficit amount for 

17 such fiscal year. If the limit is exceeded, there shall 

18 be a preliminary sequester on July 1 to eliminate the 

19 excess. 

20 ‘‘(2) PERMANENT SEQUESTER.—Budget au21 thority sequestered on July 1 pursuant to paragraph 

22 (1) shall be permanently canceled on July 15. 

23 ‘‘(3) NO MARGIN.—The margin for determining 

24 a sequester under this subsection shall be 

25 $5,000,000,000. 
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1 ‘‘(4) SEQUESTRATION PROCEDURES.—The pro2 vision of subsections (c), (d), and (e) of this section 

3 shall apply to a sequester under this subsection. 

4 ‘‘(h) MAXIMUM DEFICIT AMOUNT.—The term ‘max5 imum deficit amount’ means—

6 ‘‘(1) with respect to fiscal year 2005, 

7 $429,200,000,000; 

8 ‘‘(2) with respect to fiscal year 2006, 

9 $368,400,000,000; 

10 ‘‘(3) with respect to fiscal year 2007, 

11 $307,600,000,000; 

12 ‘‘(4) with respect to fiscal year 2008, 

13 $270,000,000,000; 

14 ‘‘(5) with respect to fiscal year 2009, 

15 $186,000,000,000; 

16 ‘‘(6) with respect to fiscal year 2010, 

17 $125,200,000,000; 

18 ‘‘(7) with respect to fiscal year 2011, 

19 $64,400,000,000; and 

20 ‘‘(8) with respect to fiscal year 2012 and fiscal 

21 years thereafter, zero.’’. 
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1 SEC. 102. MAXIMUM DEFICIT AMOUNT AND LIMIT ON PUB2 LIC DEBT POINTS OF ORDER. 

3 (a) MDA POINT OF ORDER.—Section 312 of the 

4 Congressional Budget Act of 1974 is amended by adding 

5 at the end the following new subsection: 

6 ‘‘(g) MAXIMUM DEFICIT POINT OF ORDER.—It shall 

7 not be in order in the House of Representatives or the 

8 Senate to consider any bill, joint resolution, amendment, 

9 or conference report that includes any provision that 

10 would result in a deficit for a fiscal year that exceeds the 

11 maximum deficit amount for such fiscal year.’’. 

12 (b) BALANCING THE BUDGET.—Section 301(a)(3) of 

13 the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 is amended by add14 ing ‘‘(except that after fiscal year 2011 there shall be no 

15 provision for a deficit) after ‘‘budget’’. 

16 SEC. 103. ADJUSTMENT IN THE EVENT OF NEGATIVE REV17 ENUE GROWTH. 

18 (a) IN GENERAL.—Part B of the Balanced Budget 

19 and Emergency Deficit Control of Act of 1985 is amended 

20 by repealing sections 258, 258A, 258B, and 258C and in21 serting a new section 258 to read as follows: 

22 ‘‘SEC. 258. ADJUSTMENT IN THE EVENT OF NEGATIVE REV23 ENUE GROWTH. 

24 ‘‘Whenever an OMB sequestration preview report or 

25 an OMB sequestration update report for a budget year 

26 estimates that the level of aggregate Federal revenues for 
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1 the budget year will be less than the level of aggregate 

2 Federal revenues for the prior year, OMB may change the 

3 maximum deficit amount under section 253(h) for that 

4 budget year to the prior year’s amount or increase the 

5 maximum deficit amount for the budget year by not more 

6 than the amount of the revenue shortfall.’’. 

7 (b) TABLE OF CONTENTS AMENDMENT.—The table 

8 of contents set forth in 250(c) of the Balanced Budget

9 and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 is amended 

10 by striking the items relating to sections 258, 258A, 

11 258B, and 258C and adding after the item relating to sec12 tion 257 the following new item:

‘‘Sec. 258. Adjustment in the event of negative revenue growth.’’.

13 TITLE II—DISCRETIONARY 

14 SPENDING LIMITS 

15 SEC. 201. ENFORCING DISCRETIONARY SPENDING LIMITS. 

16 (a) DISCRETIONARY SPENDING LIMITS.—Sections 

17 251(b) and (c) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 

18 Deficit Control of Act of 1985 are amended to read as 

19 follows: 

20 ‘‘(b) DISCRETIONARY SPENDING LIMIT.—As used in 

21 this part, the term ‘discretionary spending limit’ means—

22 ‘‘(1) with respect to fiscal year 2005—

23 ‘‘(A) $795,442,000,000 in new budget au24 thority of which no more than 
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1 $376,005,000,000 shall be for the nondefense 

2 category; and 

3 ‘‘(B) $llll in outlays of which no 

4 more than $llll shall be for the non5 defense category; 

6 ‘‘(2) with respect to fiscal year 2006—

7 ‘‘(A) $807,374,000,000 in new budget au8 thority of which no more than 

9 $367,867,000,000 shall be for the nondefense 

10 category; and 

11 ‘‘(B) $llll in outlays of which no 

12 more than $llll shall be for the non13 defense category; 

14 ‘‘(3) with respect to fiscal year 2007—

15 ‘‘(A) $819,484,000,000 in new budget au16 thority of which no more than 

17 $359,755,000,000 shall be for the nondefense 

18 category; and 

19 ‘‘(B) $llll in outlays of which no 

20 more than $llll shall be for the non21 defense category; 

22 ‘‘(4) with respect to fiscal year 2008—

23 ‘‘(A) $831,777,000,000 in new budget au24 thority of which no more than 
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1 $351,648,000,000 shall be for the nondefense 

2 category; and 

3 ‘‘(B) $llll in outlays of which no 

4 more than $llll shall be for the non5 defense category; 

6 ‘‘(5) with respect to fiscal year 2009—

7 ‘‘(A) $844,243,000,000 in new budget au8 thority of which no more than 

9 $350,955,000,000 shall be for the nondefense 

10 category; and 

11 ‘‘(B) $llll in outlays of which no 

12 more than $llll shall be for the non13 defense category; 

14 ‘‘(6) with respect to fiscal year 2010—

15 ‘‘(A) $856,917,000,000 in new budget au16 thority of which no more than 

17 $349,891,000,000 shall be for the nondefense 

18 category; and 

19 ‘‘(B) $llll in outlays of which no 

20 more than $llll shall be for the non21 defense category; 

22 ‘‘(7) with respect to fiscal year 2011—

23 ‘‘(A) $869,771,000,000 in new budget au24 thority of which no more than 
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1 $348,512,000,000 shall be for the nondefense 

2 category; and 

3 ‘‘(B) $llll in outlays of which no 

4 more than $llll shall be for the non5 defense category; 

6 ‘‘(8) with respect to fiscal year 2012—

7 ‘‘(A) $882,817,000,000 in new budget au8 thority of which no more than 

9 $347,137,000,000 shall be for the nondefense 

10 category; and 

11 ‘‘(B) $llll in outlays of which no 

12 more than $llll shall be for the non13 defense category; and 

14 ‘‘(9) with respect to fiscal year 2013—

15 ‘‘(A) $896,060,000,000 in new budget au16 thority of which no more than 

17 $345,628,000,000 shall be for the nondefense 

18 category; and 

19 ‘‘(B) $llll in outlays of which no 

20 more than $llll shall be for the non21 defense category.’’. 

22 (b) ELIMINATION OF GRAMM-RUDMAN EXPIRATION

23 DATE.—Section 275 of the Balanced Budget and Emer24 gency Deficit Control Act of 1985 is repealed. 
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1 (c) ELIMINATION OF EMERGENCY DESIGNATION AND

2 ADJUSTMENT.—(1) Section 252(e) of the Balanced Budg3 et and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 is repealed. 

4 (2) Section 314(b)(1) of the Congressional Budget 

5 Act of 1974 is repealed. 

6 (d) DISCRETIONARY SPENDING LIMIT POINT OF

7 ORDER.—Section 312 of the Congressional Budget Act of 

8 1974 (as amended by section 102(a)) is further amended 

9 by adding at the end the following new subsection: 

10 ‘‘(h) DISCRETIONARY SPENDING LIMIT POINT OF

11 ORDER.—It shall not be in order in the House of Rep12 resentatives or the Senate to consider any bill, joint resolu13 tion, amendment, or conference report that—

14 ‘‘(1) increases the discretionary spending limits 

15 for any ensuing fiscal year after the budget year; or 

16 ‘‘(2) would cause the discretionary spending 

17 limits for the budget year to be breached.’’. 

18 (e) ADVANCE APPROPRIATION POINT OF ORDER.—

19 Section 312 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (as 

20 amended by this section) is further amended by adding 

21 at the end the following new subsection: 

22 ‘‘(i) ADVANCE APPROPRIATION POINT OF ORDER.—

23 It shall not be in order in the House of Representatives 

24 or the Senate to consider any appropriation bill or joint 

25 resolution, or amendment thereto or conference report 
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1 thereon, that provides advance discretionary new budget 

2 authority that first becomes available for any fiscal year 

3 after the budget year at an amount for any program, 

4 project, or activity above the amount of appropriations for 

5 fiscal year 2004 for such program, project, or activity.’’.

6 SEC. 202. ESTABLISHMENT OF FAMILY BUDGET PROTEC7 TION DISCRETIONARY ACCOUNT. 

8 The Rules of the House of Representatives are 

9 amended by redesignating rule XXVIII as rule XXX and 

10 by inserting after rule XXVII the following new rule: 

11 ‘‘RULE XXVIII 

12 ‘‘FAMILY BUDGET PROTECTION DISCRETIONARY

13 ACCOUNT. 

14 ‘‘1. (a) The chairman of the Committee on the Budg15 et shall maintain an account to be known as the ‘Family 

16 Budget Protection Discretionary Account’. The Account 

17 shall be divided into entries corresponding to the sub18 committees of the Committee on Appropriations and each 

19 entry shall consist of the ‘Family Budget Protection Bal20 ance’. 

21 ‘‘(b) Each entry shall consist only of amounts cred22 ited to it under paragraph (c). No entry of a negative 

23 amount shall be made. 

24 ‘‘(c) Whenever a Member offers an amendment to an 

25 appropriation bill to reduce new budget authority in any 
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1 account, that Member may state the portion of such reduc2 tion that shall be—

3 ‘‘(1) credited to the Family Budget Protection 

4 Balance; 

5 ‘‘(2) used to offset an increase in new budget 

6 authority in any other account; or 

7 ‘‘(3) allowed to remain within the applicable 

8 section 302(b) suballocation. 

9 If no such statement is made, the amount of reduction 

10 in new budget authority resulting from the amendment 

11 shall be credited to the Family Budget Protection Bal12 ance, as applicable, if the amendment is agreed to. 

13 ‘‘2. (a) Except as provided by paragraph (b), the 

14 chairman of the Committee on the Budget shall, upon the 

15 engrossment of any appropriation bill by the House of 

16 Representatives, credit to the entry balance amounts of 

17 new budget authority and outlays equal to the net 

18 amounts of reductions in new budget authority and in out19 lays resulting from amendments agreed to by the House 

20 to that bill. 

21 ‘‘(b) When computing the net amounts of reductions 

22 in new budget authority and in outlays resulting from 

23 amendments agreed to by the House to an appropriation 

24 bill, the chairman of the Committee on the Budget shall 

25 only count those portions of such amendments agreed to 
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1 that were so designated by the Members offering such 

2 amendments as amounts to be credited to the Family 

3 Budget Protection Balance, or that fall within the last 

4 sentence of clause 1. 

5 ‘‘3. The chairman of the Committee on the Budget 

6 shall maintain a running tally of the amendments adopted 

7 reflecting increases and decreases of budget authority in 

8 the bill as reported. This tally shall be available to Mem9 bers during consideration of any appropriation bill by the 

10 House. 

11 ‘‘4. (a) For purposes of enforcing section 302(a) of 

12 the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, upon the engross13 ment of any appropriation bill by the House, the amount 

14 of budget authority and outlays calculated pursuant to 

15 clause 2(b) shall be counted against the 302(a) allocation 

16 provided to the Committee on Appropriations as if the 

17 amount calculated pursuant to such clause was included 

18 in the bill just engrossed. 

19 ‘‘(b) For purposes of enforcing section 302(b) of the 

20 Congressional Budget Act of 1974, upon the engrossment 

21 of any appropriation bill by the House, the 302(b) alloca22 tion provided to the subcommittee for the bill just en23 grossed shall be deemed to have been reduced by the 

24 amount of budget authority and outlays calculated, pursu25 ant to clause 2(b). 
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1 ‘‘5. As used in this rule, the term ‘appropriation bill’ 

2 means any general or special appropriation bill, and any 

3 bill or joint resolution making supplemental, deficiency, or 

4 continuing appropriations through the end of fiscal year 

5 2005 or any subsequent fiscal year or biennium, as the 

6 case may be.’’.

7 TITLE III—SPENDING CAPS ON 

8 THE GROWTH OF ENTITLE9 MENTS AND MANDATORIES 

10 SEC. 301. SPENDING CAPS ON GROWTH OF ENTITLEMENTS 

11 AND MANDATORIES. 

12 (a) CONTROL OF ENTITLEMENTS AND

13 MANDATORIES.—The Balanced Budget and Emergency 

14 Deficit Control Act of 1985 is amended by adding after 

15 section 252 the following new section: 

16 ‘‘SEC. 252A. ENFORCING CONTROLS ON DIRECT SPENDING. 

17 ‘‘(a) CAP ON GROWTH OF ENTITLEMENTS.—Effec18 tive for fiscal year 2005 and for each ensuing fiscal year, 

19 the total level of direct spending for all direct spending 

20 programs, projects, and activities (excluding social secu21 rity) for any such fiscal year shall not exceed the total 

22 level of spending for all such programs, projects, and ac23 tivities for the previous fiscal year after the direct spend24 ing for each such program, project, or activity is increased 

25 by the inflator (if any) applicable to that program, project, 
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1 or activity and the growth in eligible population for such, 

2 project, or activity. 

3 ‘‘(b) SEQUESTRATION.—Within 15 days after Con4 gress adjourns to end a session (other than of the first 

5 session of the One Hundred Eighth Congress), and on the 

6 same day as a sequestration (if any) under section 251 

7 and section 253, there shall be a sequestration to reduce 

8 the amount of direct spending for the fiscal year beginning 

9 in the year the Congress adjourns by any amount nec10 essary to reduce such spending to the level set forth in 

11 subsection (a) unless that amount is less than 

12 $250,000,000. 

13 ‘‘(c) UNIFORM REDUCTIONS; LIMITATIONS.—The 

14 amount required to be sequestered for the fiscal year 

15 under subsection (a) shall be obtained from nonexempt di16 rect spending accounts by actions taken in the following 

17 order: 

18 ‘‘(1) FIRST.—The reductions in the programs 

19 specified in section 256(a) (National Wool Act and 

20 special milk), section 256(b) (guaranteed student 

21 loans), and section 256(c) (foster care and adoption 

22 assistance) shall be made. 

23 ‘‘(2) SECOND.—Any additional reductions that 

24 may be required shall be achieved by reducing each 

25 remaining nonexempt direct spending account by the 
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1 uniform percentage necessary to achieve those addi2 tional reductions, except that—

3 ‘‘(A) the low-income programs specified in 

4 section 256(d) shall not be reduced by more 

5 than 2 percent;

6 ‘‘(B) the retirement and veterans benefits 

7 specified in sections 256(f), (g), and (h) shall 

8 not be reduced by more than 2 percent in the 

9 manner specified in that section; and 

10 ‘‘(C) the medicare programs shall not be 

11 reduced by more than 2 percent in the manner 

12 specified in section 256(i). 

13 The limitations set forth in subparagraphs (A), (B), 

14 and (C) shall be applied iteratively, and after each 

15 iteration the uniform percentage applicable to all 

16 other programs under this paragraph shall be in17 creased (if necessary) to a level sufficient to achieve 

18 the reductions required by this paragraph.’’. 

19 (b) TABLE OF CONTENTS AMENDMENT.—The table 

20 of contents set forth in 250(c) of the Balanced Budget 

21 and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 is amended 

22 by adding after the item relating to section 252 the fol23 lowing new item:

‘‘Sec. 252A. Enforcing controls on direct spending.’’.
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1 SEC. 302. EXEMPT PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES. 

2 Section 255 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 

3 Deficit Control Act of 1985 is amended to read as follows: 

4 ‘‘SEC. 255. EXEMPT PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES. 

5 ‘‘(a) SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS AND TIER I RAIL6 ROAD RETIREMENT BENEFITS.—Benefits payable under 

7 the old-age, survivors, and disability insurance program 

8 established under title II of the Social Security Act, and 

9 benefits payable under section 3(a), 3(f)(3), 4(a), or 4(f) 

10 of the Railroad Retirement Act of 1974, shall be exempt 

11 from reduction under any order issued under this part. 

12 ‘‘(b) DESCRIPTIONS AND LISTS.—The following 

13 budget accounts or activities shall be exempt from seques14 tration: 

15 ‘‘(1) net interest; 

16 ‘‘(2) all payments to trust funds from excise 

17 taxes or other receipts or collections properly cred18 itable to those trust funds; 

19 ‘‘(3) all payments from one Federal direct 

20 spending budget account to another Federal budget 

21 account; and all intragovernmental funds including 

22 those from which funding is derived primarily from 

23 other Government accounts, except to the extent 

24 that such funds are augmented by direct appropria25 tions for the fiscal year for which the order is in ef26 fect; 
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1 ‘‘(4) activities resulting from private donations, 

2 bequests, or voluntary contributions to the Govern3 ment; 

4 ‘‘(5) payments from any revolving fund or 

5 trust-revolving fund (or similar activity) that pro6 vides deposit insurance or other Government insur7 ance, Government guarantees, or any other form of 

8 contingent liability, to the extent those payments re9 sult from contractual or other legally binding com10 mitments of the Government at the time of any se11 questration; 

12 ‘‘(6) credit liquidating and financing accounts; 

13 ‘‘(7) the following accounts, which largely fulfill 

14 requirements of the Constitution or otherwise make 

15 payments to which the Government is committed: 

16 ‘‘Administration of Territories, Northern 

17 Mariana Islands Covenant grants (14–0412–0–

18 1–806); 

19 ‘‘Armed Forces Retirement Home Trust 

20 Fund, payment of claims (84–8930–0–7–705); 

21 ‘‘Bureau of Indian Affairs, miscellaneous 

22 payments to Indians (14–2303–0–1–452); 

23 ‘‘Bureau of Indian Affairs, miscellaneous 

24 trust funds, tribal trust funds (14–9973–0–7–

25 999); 
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1 ‘‘Claims, defense; 

2 ‘‘Claims, judgments, and relief act (20–

3 1895–0–1–806); 

4 ‘‘Compact of Free Association, economic 

5 assistance pursuant to Public Law 99–658 (14–

6 0415–0–1–806); 

7 ‘‘Compensation of the President (11–

8 0001–0–1–802); 

9 ‘‘Customs Service, miscellaneous perma10 nent appropriations (20–9992–0–2–852); 

11 ‘‘Eastern Indian land claims settlement 

12 fund (14–2202–0–1–806); 

13 ‘‘Farm Credit System Financial Assistance 

14 Corporation, interest payments (20–1850–0–1–

15 351); 

16 ‘‘Internal Revenue collections of Puerto 

17 Rico (20–5737–0–2–852); 

18 ‘‘Panama Canal Commission, operating ex19 penses and capital outlay (95–5190–0–2–403); 

20 ‘‘Payments of Vietnam and USS Pueblo 

21 prisoner-of-war claims (15–0104–0–1–153); 

22 ‘‘Payments to copyright owners (03–5175–

23 0–2–376); 

24 ‘‘Payments to the United States terri25 tories, fiscal assistance (14–0418–0–1–801); 
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1 ‘‘Payments to widows and heirs of de2 ceased Members of Congress (00–0215–0–1–

3 801); 

4 ‘‘Salaries of Article III judges; 

5 ‘‘Washington Metropolitan Area Transit 

6 Authority, interest payments (46–0300–0–1–

7 401); 

8 ‘‘(8) the following noncredit special, revolving, 

9 or trust-revolving funds: 

10 ‘‘Coinage profit fund (20–5811–0–2–803); 

11 ‘‘Comptroller of the Currency; 

12 ‘‘Director of the Office of Thrift Super13 vision; 

14 ‘‘Exchange Stabilization Fund (20–4444–

15 0–3–155); 

16 ‘‘Federal Housing Finance Board; 

17 ‘‘Foreign Military Sales trust fund (11–

18 82232–0–7–155); 

19 ‘‘(9) Thrift Savings Fund; 

20 ‘‘(10) appropriations for the District of Colum21 bia to the extent they are appropriations of locally 

22 raised funds; 

23 ‘‘(11)(A) any amount paid as regular unemploy24 ment compensation by a State from its account in 
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1 the Unemployment Trust Fund (established by sec2 tion 904(a) of the Social Security Act); 

3 ‘‘(B) any advance made to a State from the 

4 Federal unemployment account (established by sec5 tion 904(g) of such Act) under title XII of such Act 

6 and any advance appropriated to the Federal unem7 ployment account pursuant to section 1203 of such 

8 Act; and 

9 ‘‘(C) any payment made from the Federal Em10 ployees Compensation Account (as established under 

11 section 909 of such Act) for the purpose of carrying 

12 out chapter 85 of title 5, United States Code, and

13 funds appropriated or transferred to or otherwise 

14 deposited in such Account. 

15 ‘‘(c) FEDERAL RETIREMENT AND DISABILITY AC16 COUNTS.—The following Federal retirement and disability 

17 accounts shall be exempt from reduction under any order 

18 issued under this part: Civil service retirement and dis19 ability fund (24–8135–0–7–602). 

20 ‘‘(d) FEDERAL ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES.—

21 ‘‘(1) Notwithstanding any provision of law 

22 other than paragraph (3), administrative expenses 

23 incurred by the departments and agencies, including 

24 independent agencies, of the Federal Government in 

25 connection with any program, project, activity, or ac-
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1 count shall be subject to reduction pursuant to any 

2 sequestration order, without regard to any exemp3 tion, exception, limitation, or special rule otherwise 

4 applicable with respect to such program, project, ac5 tivity, or account, and regardless of whether the pro6 gram, project, activity, or account is self-supporting 

7 and does not receive appropriations. 

8 ‘‘(2) Payments made by the Federal Govern9 ment to reimburse or match administrative costs in10 curred by a State or political subdivision under or in 

11 connection with any program, project, activity, or ac12 count shall not be considered administrative ex13 penses of the Federal Government for purposes of 

14 this section, and shall be subject to sequestration to 

15 the extent (and only to the extent) that other pay16 ments made by the Federal Government under or in 

17 connection with that program, project, activity, or 

18 account are subject to that reduction or sequestra19 tion; except that Federal payments made to a State 

20 as reimbursement of administrative costs incurred 

21 by that State under or in connection with the unem22 ployment compensation programs specified in sub23 section (a)(11) shall be subject to reduction or se24 questration under this part notwithstanding the ex-
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1 emption otherwise granted to such programs under 

2 that subsection. 

3 ‘‘(3) Notwithstanding any other provision of 

4 law, the administrative expenses of the following 

5 programs shall be exempt from sequestration: 

6 ‘‘(A) Comptroller of the Currency. 

7 ‘‘(B) Federal Deposit Insurance Corpora8 tion. 

9 ‘‘(C) Office of Thrift Supervision. 

10 ‘‘(D) National Credit Union Administra11 tion. 

12 ‘‘(E) National Credit Union Administra13 tion, central liquidity facility. 

14 ‘‘(F) Federal Retirement Thrift Invest15 ment Board. 

16 ‘‘(G) Resolution Funding Corporation. 

17 ‘‘(H) Resolution Trust Corporation. 

18 ‘‘(I) Board of Governors of the Federal 

19 Reserve System. 

20 ‘‘(e) OPTIONAL EXEMPTION OF DEFENSE AND

21 HOMELAND SECURITY ACCOUNTS.—

22 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The President may, with 

23 respect to any defense or homeland security account, 

24 exempt that account from sequestration or provide 
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1 for a lower uniform percentage reduction than would 

2 otherwise apply. 

3 ‘‘(2) LIMITATION.—The President may not use 

4 the authority provided by paragraph (1) unless the 

5 President notifies the Congress of the manner in 

6 which such authority will be exercised on or before 

7 the date specified in section 254(a) for the budget 

8 year.’’. 

9 SEC. 303. EXCEPTIONS, LIMITATIONS, AND SPECIAL RULES. 

10 (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 256 of the Balanced 

11 Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 is 

12 amended to read as follows: 

13 ‘‘SEC. 256. EXCEPTIONS, LIMITATIONS, AND SPECIAL 

14 RULES. 

15 ‘‘(a) NATIONAL WOOL ACT AND THE SPECIAL MILK

16 PROGRAM.—Automatic spending increases are increases 

17 in outlays due to changes in indexes in the following pro18 grams: 

19 ‘‘(1) National Wool Act; and 

20 ‘‘(2) Special milk program. 

21 In those programs all amounts other than the automatic 

22 spending increases shall be exempt from reduction under 

23 any sequestration order.

24 ‘‘(b) THE GUARANTEED STUDENT LOAN PRO25 GRAM.—(1) Any reductions which are required to be 
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1 achieved from the student loan programs operated pursu2 ant to part B of title IV of the Higher Education Act of 

3 1965 under any sequestration order shall be achieved only 

4 from loans described in paragraphs (2) and (3) by the ap5 plication of the measures described in such paragraphs. 

6 ‘‘(2) For any loan made during the period beginning 

7 on the date that a sequestration order takes effect with 

8 respect to a fiscal year, the rate used in computing the 

9 special allowance payment pursuant to section 

10 438(b)(2)(A)(iii) of such Act for each of the first four spe11 cial allowance payments for such loan shall be adjusted 

12 by reducing such rate by the lesser of—

13 ‘‘(A) 0.40 percent, or 

14 ‘‘(B) the percentage by which the rate specified 

15 in such section exceeds 3 percent. 

16 ‘‘(3) For any loan made during the period beginning 

17 on the date that a sequestration order takes effect with 

18 respect to a fiscal year, the origination fee which is author19 ized to be collected pursuant to section 438(c)(2) of such 

20 Act shall be increased by 0.50 percent. 

21 ‘‘(c) FOSTER CARE AND ADOPTION ASSISTANCE

22 PROGRAMS.—Any sequestration order shall make the re23 duction otherwise required under the foster care and adop24 tion assistance programs (established by part E of title 

25 IV of the Social Security Act) only with respect to pay-
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1 ments and expenditures made by States in which increases 

2 in foster care maintenance payment rates or adoption as3 sistance payment rates (or both) are to take effect during 

4 the fiscal year involved, and only to the extent that the 

5 required reduction can be accomplished by applying a uni6 form percentage reduction to the Federal matching pay7 ments that each such State would otherwise receive under 

8 section 474 of that Act (for such fiscal year) for that por9 tion of the State’s payments attributable to the increases 

10 taking effect during that year. No State’s matching pay11 ments from the Federal Government for foster care main12 tenance payments or for adoption assistance maintenance 

13 payments may be reduced by a percentage exceeding the

14 applicable domestic sequestration percentage. No State 

15 may, after the date of the enactment of this Act, make 

16 any change in the timetable for making payments under 

17 a State plan approved under part E of title IV of the So18 cial Security Act which has the effect of changing the fis19 cal year in which expenditures under such part are made. 

20 ‘‘(d) LOW-INCOME PROGRAMS.—(1) Benefit pay21 ments or payments to States or other entities for the pro22 grams listed in paragraph (2) shall not be reduced by 

23 more than 2 percent under any sequestration order. When 

24 reduced under an end-of-session sequestration order, those 

25 benefit reductions shall occur starting with the payment 
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1 made at the start of January. When reduced under a with2 in-session sequestration order, those benefit reductions 

3 shall occur starting with the next periodic payment. 

4 ‘‘(2) The programs referred to in paragraph (1) are 

5 the following: 

6 ‘‘Child nutrition (12–3539–0–1–605); 

7 ‘‘Food stamp programs (12–3505–0–1–605) 

8 and (12–3550–0–1–605); 

9 ‘‘Grants to States for medicaid (75–0512–0–1–

10 551); 

11 ‘‘State Children’s Health Insurance Fund (75–

12 0515–0–1–551); 

13 ‘‘Supplemental security income program (75–

14 0406–0–1–609); and 

15 ‘‘Temporary assistance for needy families (75–

16 1552–0–1–609); 

17 ‘‘(e) VETERANS’ MEDICAL CARE.—The maximum 

18 permissible reduction in budget authority for Veterans’ 

19 medical care (36–0160–0–1–703) for any fiscal year, pur20 suant to an order issued under section 254, shall be 2 

21 percent. 

22 ‘‘(f) FEDERAL RETIREMENT PROGRAMS.—

23 ‘‘(1) For each of the programs listed in para24 graph (2) and except as provided in paragraph (3), 

25 monthly (or other periodic) benefit payments shall 
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1 be reduced by the uniform percentage applicable to 

2 direct spending sequestrations for such programs, 

3 which shall in no case exceed 2 percent under any 

4 sequestration order. When reduced under an end-of5 session sequestration order, those benefit reductions 

6 shall occur starting with the payment made at the 

7 start of January or 7 weeks after the order is 

8 issued, whichever is later. When reduced under a 

9 within-session sequestration order, those benefit re10 ductions shall occur starting with the next periodic 

11 payment. 

12 ‘‘(2) The programs subject to paragraph (1) 

13 are: 

14 ‘‘Black lung benefits (20–8144–0–7–601); 

15 ‘‘Central Intelligence Agency retirement 

16 and disability system fund (56–3400–0–1–054); 

17 ‘‘Comptrollers general retirement system 

18 (05–0107–0–1–801); 

19 ‘‘Foreign service retirement and disability 

20 fund (19–8186–0–7–602); 

21 ‘‘Judicial survivors’ annuities fund (10–

22 8110–0–7–602); 

23 ‘‘Judicial Officers’ Retirement Fund (10–

24 8122–0–7–602); 
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1 ‘‘Claims Judges’ Retirement Fund (10–

2 8124–0–7–602); 

3 ‘‘Longshoremen’s and harborworkers’ com4 pensation benefits (16–9971–0–7–601); 

5 ‘‘National Oceanic and Atmospheric Ad6 ministration retirement (13–1450–0–1–306); 

7 ‘‘Pensions for former Presidents (47–

8 0105–0–1–802); 

9 ‘‘Railroad Industry Pension Fund (60–

10 8011–0–7–601); 

11 ‘‘Railroad retirement tier II (60–8011–0–

12 7–601); 

13 ‘‘Railroad supplemental annuity pension 

14 fund (60–8012–0–7–602); 

15 ‘‘Retired pay, Coast Guard (69–0241–0–1–

16 403); 

17 ‘‘Retirement pay and medical benefits for 

18 commissioned officers, Public Health Service 

19 (75–0379–0–1–551); 

20 ‘‘Special benefits, Federal Employees’ 

21 Compensation Act (16–1521–0–1–600); 

22 ‘‘Special benefits for disabled coal miners 

23 (75–0409–0–1–601); and 

24 ‘‘Tax Court judges survivors annuity fund 

25 (23–8115–0–7–602); 
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1 ‘‘(g) VETERANS PROGRAMS.—To achieve the total 

2 percentage reduction required by any order issued under 

3 this part, the percentage reduction that shall apply to pay4 ments under the following programs shall in no event ex5 ceed 2 percent: 

6 ‘‘National Service Life Insurance Fund (36–

7 8132–0–7–701); 

8 ‘‘Service-Disabled Veterans Insurance Fund 

9 (36–4012–0–3–701); 

10 ‘‘Veterans Special Life Insurance Fund (36–

11 8455–0–8–701); 

12 ‘‘Veterans Reopened Insurance Fund (36–

13 4010–0–3–701); 

14 ‘‘United States Government Life Insurance 

15 Fund (36–8150–0–7–701); 

16 ‘‘Veterans Insurance and Indemnities (36–

17 0120–0–1–701); 

18 ‘‘Special Therapeutic and Rehabilitation Activi19 ties Fund (36–4048–0–3–703); 

20 ‘‘Canteen Service Revolving Fund (36–4014–0–

21 3–705); 

22 ‘‘Benefits under chapter 21 of title 38, United 

23 States Code, relating to specially adapted housing 

24 and mortgage-protection life insurance for certain 
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1 veterans with service-connected disabilities (36–

2 0120–0–1–701); 

3 ‘‘Benefits under section 907 of title 38, United 

4 States Code, relating to burial benefits for veterans 

5 who die as a result of service-connected disability 

6 (36–0155–0–1–701); 

7 ‘‘Benefits under chapter 39 of title 38, United 

8 States Code, relating to automobiles and adaptive 

9 equipment for certain disabled veterans and mem10 bers of the Armed Forces (36–0137–0–1–702); 

11 ‘‘Compensation (36–0153–0–1–701); 

12 ‘‘Pensions (36–0154–0–1–701);

13 ‘‘Benefits under chapter 35 of title 38, United 

14 States Code, related to educational assistance for 

15 survivors and dependents of certain veterans with 

16 service-connected disabilities (36–0137–0–1–702); 

17 ‘‘Assistance and services under chapter 31 of 

18 title 38, United States Code, relating to training and 

19 rehabilitation for certain veterans with service-con20 nected disabilities (36–0137–0–1–702); 

21 ‘‘Benefits under subchapters I, II, and III of 

22 chapter 37 of title 38, United States Code, relating 

23 to housing loans for certain veterans and for the 

24 spouses and surviving spouses of certain veterans 
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1 Guaranty and Indemnity Program Account (36–

2 1119–0–1–704); 

3 ‘‘Loan Guaranty Program Account (36–1025–

4 0–1–704); and 

5 ‘‘Direct Loan Program Account (36–1024–0–1–

6 704). 

7 ‘‘(h) MILITARY RETIREMENT.—To achieve the total 

8 percentage reduction in military retirement required by 

9 any order issued under this part, the percentage reduction 

10 that shall apply to payments under the Military retirement 

11 fund (97–8097–0–7–602) shall in no event exceed 2 per12 cent. 

13 ‘‘(i) MEDICARE PROGRAM.—

14 ‘‘(1) CALCULATION OF REDUCTION IN INDI15 VIDUAL PAYMENT AMOUNTS.—To achieve the total 

16 percentage reduction in those programs required by 

17 any order issued under this part, the percentage re18 duction that shall apply to payments under the 

19 health insurance programs under title XVIII of the 

20 Social Security Act for services furnished after any 

21 sequestration order is issued shall be such that the 

22 reduction made in payments under that order shall 

23 achieve the required total percentage reduction in 

24 those payments for that fiscal year as determined on 

25 a 12-month basis. However, the total reduction 
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1 under any such program shall in no case exceed 2 

2 percent under any sequestration order. 

3 ‘‘(2) TIMING OF APPLICATION OF REDUC4 TIONS.—

5 ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in 

6 subparagraph (B), if a reduction is made under 

7 paragraph (1) in payment amounts pursuant to 

8 a sequestration order, the reduction shall be ap9 plied to payment for services furnished after the 

10 effective date of the order. For purposes of the 

11 previous sentence, in the case of inpatient serv12 ices furnished for an individual, the services 

13 shall be considered to be furnished on the date 

14 of the individual’s discharge from the inpatient 

15 facility. 

16 ‘‘(B) PAYMENT ON THE BASIS OF COST

17 REPORTING PERIODS.—In the case in which 

18 payment for services of a provider of services is 

19 made under title XVIII of the Social Security 

20 Act on a basis relating to the reasonable cost 

21 incurred for the services during a cost reporting 

22 period of the provider, if a reduction is made 

23 under paragraph (1) in payment amounts pur24 suant to a sequestration order, the reduction 

25 shall be applied to payment for costs for such 
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1 services incurred at any time during each cost 

2 reporting period of the provider any part of 

3 which occurs after the effective date of the 

4 order, but only (for each such cost reporting pe5 riod) in the same proportion as the fraction of 

6 the cost reporting period that occurs after the 

7 effective date of the order. 

8 ‘‘(3) NO INCREASE IN BENEFICIARY CHARGES

9 IN ASSIGNMENT-RELATED CASES.—If a reduction in 

10 payment amounts is made under paragraph (1) for 

11 services for which payment under part B of title 

12 XVIII of the Social Security Act is made on the 

13 basis of an assignment described in section 

14 1842(b)(3)(B)(ii), in accordance with section 

15 1842(b)(6)(B), or under the procedure described in 

16 section 1870(f)(1) of such Act, the person furnishing 

17 the services shall be considered to have accepted 

18 payment of the reasonable charge for the services, 

19 less any reduction in payment amount made pursu20 ant to a sequestration order, as payment in full. 

21 ‘‘(4) NO EFFECT ON COMPUTATION OF

22 AAPCC.—In computing the adjusted average per cap23 ita cost for purposes of section 1876(a)(4) of the So24 cial Security Act, the Secretary of Health and 

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1 ductions in payment amounts which have been or 

2 may be effected under this subtitle. 

3 ‘‘(j) FEDERAL PAY.—

4 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—For purposes of any order 

5 issued under section 254, new budget authority to 

6 pay Federal personnel shall be reduced by the appli7 cable uniform percentage, but no sequestration order 

8 may reduce or have the effect of reducing the rate 

9 of pay to which any individual is entitled under any 

10 statutory pay system (as increased by any amount 

11 payable under section 5304 of title 5, United States 

12 Code, or section 302 of the Federal Employees Pay 

13 Comparability Act of 1990) or the rate of any ele14 ment of military pay to which any individual is enti15 tled under title 37, United States Code, or any in16 crease in rates of pay which is scheduled to take ef17 fect under section 5303 of title 5, United States 

18 Code, section 1009 of title 37, United States Code, 

19 or any other provision of law. 

20 ‘‘(2) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this sub21 section: 

22 ‘‘(A) The term ‘statutory pay system’ shall 

23 have the meaning given that term in section 

24 5302(1) of title 5, United States Code. 
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1 ‘‘(B) The term ‘elements of military pay’ 

2 means—

3 ‘‘(i) the elements of compensation of 

4 members of the uniformed services speci5 fied in section 1009 of title 37, United 

6 States Code, 

7 ‘‘(ii) allowances provided members of 

8 the uniformed services under sections 403a 

9 and 405 of such title, and 

10 ‘‘(iii) cadet pay and midshipman pay 

11 under section 203(c) of such title. 

12 ‘‘(C) The term ‘uniformed services’ shall 

13 have the meaning given that term in section 

14 101(3) of title 37, United States Code.

15 ‘‘(k) CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT PROGRAM.—

16 Any sequestration order shall accomplish the full amount 

17 of any required reduction in expenditures under sections 

18 455 and 458 of the Social Security Act by reducing the 

19 Federal matching rate for State administrative costs 

20 under such program, as specified (for the fiscal year in21 volved) in section 455(a) of such Act, to the extent nec22 essary to reduce such expenditures by that amount. 

23 ‘‘(l) EXTENDED UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION.—

24 (1) A State may reduce each weekly benefit payment made 

25 under the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Com-
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1 pensation Act of 1970 for any week of unemployment oc2 curring during any period with respect to which payments 

3 are reduced under an order issued under this title by a 

4 percentage not to exceed the percentage by which the Fed5 eral payment to the State under section 204 of such Act 

6 is to be reduced for such week as a result of such order. 

7 ‘‘(2) A reduction by a State in accordance with sub8 paragraph (A) shall not be considered as a failure to fulfill 

9 the requirements of section 3304(a)(11) of the Internal 

10 Revenue Code of 1954. 

11 ‘‘(m) COMMODITY CREDIT CORPORATION.—

12 ‘‘(1) POWERS AND AUTHORITIES OF THE COM13 MODITY CREDIT CORPORATION.—This title shall not 

14 restrict the Commodity Credit Corporation in the 

15 discharge of its authority and responsibility as a cor16 poration to buy and sell commodities in world trade, 

17 to use the proceeds as a revolving fund to meet 

18 other obligations and otherwise operate as a corpora19 tion, the purpose for which it was created. 

20 ‘‘(2) REDUCTION IN PAYMENTS MADE UNDER

21 CONTRACTS.—(A) Payments and loan eligibility 

22 under any contract entered into with a person by the 

23 Commodity Credit Corporation prior to the time any 

24 sequestration order has been issued shall not be re25 duced by an order subsequently issued. Subject to 
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1 subparagraph (B), after any sequestration order is 

2 issued for a fiscal year, any cash payments made by 

3 the Commodity Credit Corporation—

4 ‘‘(i) under the terms of any one-year con5 tract entered into in or after such fiscal year 

6 and after the issuance of the order; and 

7 ‘‘(ii) out of an entitlement account, 

8 to any person (including any producer, lender, or 

9 guarantee entity) shall be subject to reduction under 

10 the order. 

11 ‘‘(B) Each contract entered into with producers 

12 or producer cooperatives with respect to a particular 

13 crop of a commodity and subject to reduction under 

14 subparagraph (A) shall be reduced in accordance 

15 with the same terms and conditions. If some, but 

16 not all, contracts applicable to a crop of a com17 modity have been entered into prior to the issuance 

18 of any sequestration order, the order shall provide 

19 that the necessary reduction in payments under con20 tracts applicable to the commodity be uniformly ap21 plied to all contracts for succeeding crops of the 

22 commodity, under the authority provided in para23 graph (3). 

24 ‘‘(3) DELAYED REDUCTION IN OUTLAYS PER25 MISSIBLE.—Notwithstanding any other provision of 
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1 this title, if any sequestration order is issued with 

2 respect to a fiscal year, any reduction under the 

3 order applicable to contracts described in paragraph 

4 (2) may provide for reductions in outlays for the ac5 count involved to occur in the fiscal years following 

6 the fiscal year to which the order applies. 

7 ‘‘(4) UNIFORM PERCENTAGE RATE OF REDUC8 TION AND OTHER LIMITATIONS.—All reductions de9 scribed in paragraph (2) that are required to be 

10 made in connection with any sequestration order 

11 with respect to a fiscal year—

12 ‘‘(A) shall be made so as to ensure that 

13 outlays for each program, project, activity, or 

14 account involved are reduced by a percentage 

15 rate that is uniform for all such programs, 

16 projects, activities, and accounts, and may not 

17 be made so as to achieve a percentage rate of 

18 reduction in any such item exceeding the rate 

19 specified in the order; and 

20 ‘‘(B) with respect to commodity price sup21 port and income protection programs, shall be 

22 made in such manner and under such proce23 dures as will attempt to ensure that—
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1 ‘‘(i) uncertainty as to the scope of 

2 benefits under any such program is mini3 mized; 

4 ‘‘(ii) any instability in market prices 

5 for agricultural commodities resulting from 

6 the reduction is minimized; and 

7 ‘‘(iii) normal production and mar8 keting relationships among agricultural 

9 commodities (including both contract and 

10 non-contract commodities) are not dis11 torted. 

12 In meeting the criterion set out in clause (iii) 

13 of subparagraph (B) of the preceding sentence, 

14 the President shall take into consideration that 

15 reductions under an order may apply to pro16 grams for two or more agricultural commodities 

17 that use the same type of production or mar18 keting resources or that are alternative com19 modities among which a producer could choose 

20 in making annual production decisions. 

21 ‘‘(5) CERTAIN AUTHORITY NOT TO BE LIM22 ITED.—Nothing in this title shall limit or reduce in 

23 any way any appropriation that provides the Com24 modity Credit Corporation with funds to cover the 

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1 ‘‘(n) POSTAL SERVICE FUND.—Notwithstanding any 

2 other provision of law, any sequestration of the Postal 

3 Service Fund shall be accomplished by a payment from 

4 that Fund to the General Fund of the Treasury, and the 

5 Postmaster General of the United States shall make the 

6 full amount of that payment during the fiscal year to 

7 which the presidential sequestration order applies. 

8 ‘‘(o) EFFECTS OF SEQUESTRATION.—The effects of 

9 sequestration shall be as follows: 

10 ‘‘(1) Budgetary resources sequestered from any 

11 account other than an entitlement trust, special, or 

12 revolving fund account shall revert to the Treasury 

13 and be permanently canceled. 

14 ‘‘(2) Except as otherwise provided, the same 

15 percentage sequestration shall apply to all programs, 

16 projects, and activities within a budget account (with

17 programs, projects, and activities as delineated in 

18 the appropriation Act or accompanying report for 

19 the relevant fiscal year covering that account, or for 

20 accounts not included in appropriation Acts, as de21 lineated in the most recently submitted President’s 

22 budget). 

23 ‘‘(3) Administrative regulations or similar ac24 tions implementing a sequestration shall be made 

25 within 120 days of the sequestration order. To the 
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1 extent that formula allocations differ at different 

2 levels of budgetary resources within an account, pro3 gram, project, or activity, the sequestration shall be 

4 interpreted as producing a lower total appropriation, 

5 with that lower appropriation being obligated as 

6 though it had been the pre-sequestration appropria7 tion and no sequestration had occurred. 

8 ‘‘(4) Except as otherwise provided, obligations 

9 in sequestered direct spending accounts shall be re10 duced in the fiscal year in which a sequestration oc11 curs and in all succeeding fiscal years. 

12 ‘‘(5) If an automatic spending increase is se13 questered, the increase (in the applicable index) that 

14 was disregarded as a result of that sequestration 

15 shall not be taken into account in any subsequent 

16 fiscal year. 

17 ‘‘(6) Except as otherwise provided, sequestra18 tion in accounts for which obligations are indefinite 

19 shall be taken in a manner to ensure that obliga20 tions in the fiscal year of a sequestration and suc21 ceeding fiscal years are reduced, from the level that 

22 would actually have occurred, by the applicable se23 questration percentage.’’. 

24 (b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—The table of con25 tents set forth in 250(c) of the Balanced Budget and 
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1 Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 is amended by 

2 amending the item relating to section 256 to read as fol3 lows:

‘‘Sec. 256. Exceptions, limitations, and special rules.’’.

4 SEC. 304. POINT OF ORDER. 

5 (a) ENTITLEMENT POINT OF ORDER.—Section 312 

6 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (as amended by 

7 sections 102 and 201(d)) is further amended by adding 

8 at the end the following new subsection: 

9 ‘‘(j) ENTITLEMENT POINT OF ORDER.—It shall not 

10 be in order in the House of Representatives or the Senate 

11 to consider any bill, joint resolution, amendment, or con12 ference report that—

13 ‘‘(1) increases aggregate level of direct spending 

14 for any ensuing fiscal year or 

15 ‘‘(2) includes any provision that has the effect 

16 of modifying the application of section 252A of the 

17 Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 

18 Act of 1985 to any entitlement program subject to 

19 sequestration or exempt from sequestration under 

20 such Act.’’. 

21 SEC. 305. TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING AMENDMENTS. 

22 The Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 

23 Act of 1985 is amended as follows: 

24 (1) Section 251(a)(1) is amended by inserting 

25 ‘‘, section 252A,’’ after ‘‘section 252’’. 
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1 (2) Section 254(c)(4)(B) is amended by insert2 ing ‘‘or section 252A’’after ‘‘section 252’’. 

3 (3) Section 254(c) is amended by redesignating 

4 paragraph (5) as paragraph (6) and by inserting 

5 after paragraph (4) the following new paragraph: 

6 ‘‘(5) DIRECT SPENDING CONTROL SEQUESTRA7 TION REPORTS.—The preview reports shall set forth, 

8 for the current year and the budget year, estimates 

9 for each of the following: 

10 ‘‘(A) The total level of direct spending for 

11 all programs, projects, and activities (excluding 

12 social security). 

13 ‘‘(B) The sequestration percentage or (if 

14 the required sequestration percentage is greater 

15 than the maximum allowable percentage for 

16 medicare) percentages necessary to comply with 

17 section 252A.’’. 

18 (4) Section 254(f) is amended by redesignating 

19 paragraphs (4) and (5) as paragraphs (5) and (6) 

20 and by inserting after paragraph (3) the following 

21 new paragraph: 

22 ‘‘(4) DIRECT SPENDING CONTROL SEQUESTRA23 TION REPORTS.—The final reports shall contain all 

24 the information required in the direct spending con25 trol sequestration preview reports. In addition, these 
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1 reports shall contain, for the budget year, for each 

2 account to be sequestered, estimates of the baseline 

3 level of sequesterable budgetary resources and re4 sulting outlays and the amount of budgetary re5 sources to be sequestered and resulting outlay reduc6 tions. The reports shall also contain estimates of the 

7 effects on outlays of the sequestration in each out8 year for direct spending programs.’’. 

9 (5) Section 258C(a)(1) is amended by inserting 

10 ‘‘, 252A,’’ after ‘‘section 252’’. 

11 SEC. 306. ESTABLISHMENT OF FAMILY BUDGET PROTEC12 TION MANDATORY ACCOUNT. 

13 The Rules of the House of Representatives (as 

14 amended by section 202) are further amended by inserting 

15 after rule XXVIII the following new rule: 

16 ‘‘RULE XXIX 

17 ‘‘FAMILY BUDGET PROTECTION MANDATORY ACCOUNT. 

18 ‘‘1. (a) The chairman of the Committee on the Budg19 et shall maintain an account to be known as the ‘Family 

20 Budget Protection Mandatory Account’. The Account 

21 shall be divided into entries corresponding to the House 

22 committees that received allocations under section 302(a) 

23 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 in the most re24 cently adopted concurrent resolution on the budget, except 

25 that it shall not include the Committee on Appropriations 
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1 and each entry shall consist of the ‘First Year Family 

2 Budget Protection Balance’ and the ‘Five Year Family 

3 Budget Protection Balance’. 

4 ‘‘(b) Each entry shall consist only of amounts cred5 ited to it under paragraph (c). No entry of a negative 

6 amount shall be made. 

7 ‘‘(c) Whenever a Member offers an amendment to a 

8 bill that reduces the amount of mandatory budget author9 ity provided either under current law or proposed to be 

10 provided by the bill under consideration, that Member may 

11 state the portion of such reduction achieved in the first 

12 year covered by the most recently adopted concurrent reso13 lution on the budget and in addition the portion of such 

14 reduction achieved in the first five years covered by the

15 most recently adopted concurrent resolution on the budget 

16 that shall be—

17 ‘‘(1) credited to the First Year Family Budget 

18 Protection Balance and the Five Year Family Budg19 et Protection Balance; 

20 ‘‘(2) used to offset an increase in other new 

21 budget authority; or

22 ‘‘(3) allowed to remain within the applicable 

23 section 302(a) allocation. 

24 If no such statement is made, the amount of reduction 

25 in new budget authority resulting from the amendment 
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1 shall be credited to the First Year Family Budget Protec2 tion Balance and the Five Year Family Budget Protection 

3 Balance, as applicable, if the amendment is agreed to. 

4 ‘‘2. (a) Except as provided by paragraph (b), the 

5 chairman of the Committee on the Budget shall, upon the 

6 engrossment of any bill, other than an appropriation bill, 

7 by the House, credit to the applicable entry balances 

8 amounts of new budget authority and outlays equal to the 

9 net amounts of reductions in budget authority and in out10 lays resulting from amendments agreed to by the House 

11 to that bill. 

12 ‘‘(b) When computing the net amounts of reductions 

13 in budget authority and in outlays resulting from amend14 ments agreed to by the House to a bill, the chairman of 

15 the Committee on the Budget shall only count those por16 tions of such amendments agreed to that were so des17 ignated by the Members offering such amendments as 

18 amounts to be credited to the First Year Family Budget 

19 Protection Balance and the Five Year Family Budget Pro20 tection Balance, or that fall within the last sentence of 

21 clause 1. 

22 ‘‘3. The chairman of the Committee on the Budget 

23 shall maintain a running tally of the amendments adopted 

24 reflecting increases and decreases of budget authority in 
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1 the bill as reported. This tally shall be available to Mem2 bers during consideration of any bill by the House. 

3 ‘‘4. For the purposes of enforcing section 302(a) of 

4 the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, upon the engross5 ment of any bill, other than an appropriation bill, by the 

6 House, the amount of budget authority and outlays cal7 culated pursuant to paragraph 2(b) shall be counted 

8 against the 302(a) allocation provided to the applicable 

9 committee or committees which reported the bill as if the 

10 amount calculated pursuant to clause 2(b) was included 

11 in the bill just engrossed. 

12 ‘‘5. As used in this rule, the term ‘appropriation bill’ 

13 means any general or special appropriation bill, and any 

14 bill or joint resolution making supplemental, deficiency, or 

15 continuing appropriations through the end of fiscal year 

16 2005 or any subsequent fiscal year, as the case may be.’’. 

17 TITLE IV—COMBATING WASTE, 

18 FRAUD, AND ABUSE 

19 THROUGH SUNSETTING 

20 SEC. 401. REAUTHORIZATION OF DISCRETIONARY PRO21 GRAMS AND UNEARNED ENTITLEMENTS. 

22 (a) FISCAL YEAR 2006.—Effective October 1, 2005, 

23 spending authority for each unearned entitlement and 

24 high-cost discretionary spending program is frozen at then 
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1 current levels unless such spending authority is reauthor2 ized after the date of enactment of this Act. 

3 (b) FISCAL YEAR 2007.—(1) Effective October 1, 

4 2006, spending authority for each authorized discre5 tionary spending program (not including high-cost discre6 tionary spending programs) is frozen at then current levels 

7 unless such spending authority is reauthorized after the 

8 date of enactment of this Act. 

9 (2) Effective October 1, 2006, spending authority for 

10 each unauthorized discretionary spending program (not 

11 including high-cost discretionary spending programs) is 

12 terminated unless such spending authority is reauthorized 

13 after the date of enactment of this Act. 

14 (c) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this title—

15 (1) the term ‘‘unearned entitlement’’ means an 

16 entitlement not earned by service or paid for in total 

17 or in part by assessments or contributions such as 

18 Social Security, veterans’ benefits, retirement pro19 grams, and medicare; and 

20 (2) the term ‘‘high-cost discretionary program’’ 

21 means the most expensive one-third of discretionary 

22 program within each budget function account. 

23 SEC. 402. POINT OF ORDER. 

24 (a) IN GENERAL.—It shall not be in order in the 

25 House of Representatives or the Senate to consider any 
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1 bill, joint resolution, amendment, or conference report that 

2 includes any provision that appropriates funds above cur3 rent levels unless such appropriation has been previously 

4 authorized by law. 

5 (b) WAIVER OR SUSPENSION.—This section may be 

6 waived or suspended in the House of Representatives or 

7 the Senate only by the affirmative vote of two-thirds of 

8 the Members, duly chosen and sworn. 

9 SEC. 403. DECENNIAL SUNSETTING. 

10 (a) FIRST DECENNIAL CENSUS YEAR.—Effective on 

11 the first day of the fiscal year beginning in the first decen12 nial census year after the year 2010 and each 10 years 

13 thereafter, the spending authority described in section 

14 401(a) is terminated unless such spending authority is re15 authorized after the last date the spending authority was 

16 required to be reauthorized under this title. 

17 (b) FIRST DECENNIAL CENSUS YEAR.—Effective on 

18 the first day of the fiscal year beginning in the year after 

19 the first decennial census year after the year 2010 and 

20 each 10 years thereafter, the spending authority described 

21 in section 401(b) is terminated unless such spending au22 thority is reauthorized after the last date the spending au23 thority was required to be reauthorized under this title. 
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1 TITLE V—JOINT BUDGET RESO2 LUTIONS AND BIENNIAL 

3 BUDGETING 

4 Subtitle A—Joint Budget 

5 Resolutions 

6 SEC. 501. JOINT BUDGET RESOLUTIONS. 

7 (a) DEFINITIONS.—Paragraph (4) of section 3 of the 

8 Congressional Budget Act of 1974 is amended to read as 

9 follows: 

10 ‘‘(4) the term ‘joint resolution on the budget’ 

11 means—

12 ‘‘(A) a joint resolution setting forth the 

13 congressional budget for the United States Gov14 ernment for a fiscal year as provided in section 

15 301; and

16 ‘‘(B) any other joint resolution revising the 

17 congressional budget for the United States Gov18 ernment for a fiscal year as described in section 

19 304.’’. 

20 (b) JOINT RESOLUTION ON THE BUDGET.—(1) Sec21 tion 301(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 is 

22 amended by striking ‘‘concurrent resolution’’ each place 

23 it appears including in the caption and inserting ‘‘joint 

24 resolution’’. 
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1 (2) Section 301(b) of such Act is amended by striking 

2 ‘‘concurrent resolution’’ each place it appears including in 

3 the caption and inserting ‘‘joint resolution’’. 

4 (3) Section 301(c) of such Act is amended by striking 

5 ‘‘concurrent resolution’’ each place it appears and insert6 ing ‘‘joint resolution’’. 

7 (4) Section 301(e) of such Act is amended by striking 

8 ‘‘concurrent resolution’’ each place it appears and insert9 ing ‘‘joint resolution’’. 

10 (5) Section 301(f) of such Act is amended by striking 

11 ‘‘concurrent resolution’’ each place it appears and insert12 ing ‘‘joint resolution’’. 

13 (6) Section 301(g) of such Act is amended by striking 

14 ‘‘concurrent resolution’’ each place it appears and insert15 ing ‘‘joint resolution’’. 

16 (7) Section 301(h) of such Act is amended by striking 

17 ‘‘concurrent resolution’’ and inserting ‘‘joint resolution’’. 

18 (8) Section 301(i) of such Act is amended by striking 

19 ‘‘concurrent resolution’’ each place it appears and insert20 ing ‘‘joint resolution’’. 

21 (9) The section heading of section 301 of such Act 

22 is amended by striking ‘‘ANNUAL ADOPTION OF CON23 CURRENT’’ and inserting ‘‘ANNUAL ADOPTION OF

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1 (10) The table of contents set forth in section 1(b) 

2 of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control 

3 Act of 1974 is amended by striking ‘‘Annual adoption of 

4 the concurrent’’ in the item relating to section 301 and 

5 inserting ‘‘Annual adoption of the joint’’. 

6 (11) Section 302 of such Act is amended by striking 

7 ‘‘concurrent resolution’’ each place it appears and insert8 ing ‘‘joint resolution’’. 

9 (12) Section 303 of such Act, including the heading, 

10 is amended by striking ‘‘concurrent resolution’’ each place 

11 it appears and inserting ‘‘joint resolution’’. 

12 (13) The table of contents set forth in section 1(b) 

13 of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control 

14 Act of 1974 is amended by striking ‘‘Concurrent’’ in the 

15 item relating to section 303 and inserting ‘‘Joint’’. 

16 (14) Section 304 of such Act is amended by striking 

17 ‘‘concurrent resolution’’, including in the heading, each 

18 place it appears and inserting ‘‘joint resolution’’. 

19 (15) The table of contents set forth in section 1(b) 

20 of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control 

21 Act of 1974 is amended by striking ‘‘Concurrent’’ in the 

22 item relating to section 304 and inserting ‘‘Joint’’. 

23 (16) Section 305 of such Act is amended by striking 

24 ‘‘concurrent resolution’’, including in the heading, each 

25 place it appears and inserting ‘‘joint resolution’’. 
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1 (17) Section 308 of such Act is amended by striking 

2 ‘‘concurrent resolution’’ each place it appears and insert3 ing ‘‘joint resolution’’. 

4 (18) Section 310 of such Act is amended by striking 

5 ‘‘concurrent resolution’’ each place it appears and insert6 ing ‘‘joint resolution’’. 

7 (19) Section 311 of such Act is amended by striking 

8 ‘‘concurrent resolution’’ each place it appears and insert9 ing ‘‘joint resolution’’. 

10 Subtitle B—Biennial Budgeting 

11 SEC. 511. REVISION OF TIMETABLE. 

12 Section 300 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 

13 (2 U.S.C. 631) is amended to read as follows: 

14 ‘‘TIMETABLE

15 ‘‘SEC. 300. (a) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided by 

16 subsection (b), the timetable with respect to the congres17 sional budget process for any Congress (beginning with 

18 the One Hundred Tenth Congress) is as follows: 

‘‘First Session 

‘‘On or before: Action to be completed:

First Monday in February ....... President submits budget recommendations. 

February 15 ............................. Congressional Budget Office submits report 

to Budget Committees. 

Not later than 6 weeks after 

budget submission.

Committees submit views and estimates to 

Budget Committees. 

April 1 ...................................... Budget Committees report joint resolution on 

the biennial budget. 

May 15 ..................................... Congress completes action on joint resolution 

on the biennial budget. 

May 15 ..................................... Biennial appropriation bills may be considered in the House. 

June 10 .................................... House Appropriations Committee reports last 

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June 30 .................................... House completes action on biennial appropriation bills. 

October 1 .................................. Biennium begins.

‘‘Second Session 

‘‘On or before: Action to be completed:

February 15 ............................. President submits budget review. 

Not later than 6 weeks after 

President submits budget review.

Congressional Budget Office submits report 

to Budget Committees. 

The last day of the session ....... Congress completes action on bills and resolutions authorizing new budget authority for 

the succeeding biennium. 

1 ‘‘(b) SPECIAL RULE.—In the case of any first session 

2 of Congress that begins in any year during which the term 

3 of a President (except a President who succeeds himself) 

4 begins, the following dates shall supersede those set forth 

5 in subsection (a):

‘‘First Session 

‘‘On or before: Action to be completed:

First Monday in April .............. President submits budget recommendations. 

April 20 .................................... Committees submit views and estimates to 

Budget Committees. 

May 15 ..................................... Budget Committees report joint resolution on 

the biennial budget. 

June 1 ...................................... Congress completes action on joint resolution 

on the biennial budget. 

June 1 ...................................... Biennial appropriation bills may be considered in the House. 

July 1 ....................................... House Appropriations Committee reports last 

biennial appropriation bill. 

July 20 ..................................... House completes action on biennial appropriation bills. 

October 1 .................................. Biennium begins.’’. 

6 SEC. 512. AMENDMENTS TO THE CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET 

7 AND IMPOUNDMENT CONTROL ACT OF 1974. 

8 (a) DECLARATION OF PURPOSE.—Section 2(2) of the 

9 Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 
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1 1974 (2 U.S.C. 621(2)) is amended by striking ‘‘each 

2 year’’ and inserting ‘‘biennially’’. 

3 (b) DEFINITIONS.—

4 (1) BUDGET RESOLUTION.—Section 3(4) of 

5 such Act (2 U.S.C. 622(4)) is amended by striking 

6 ‘‘fiscal year’’ each place it appears and inserting ‘‘bi7 ennium’’. 

8 (2) BIENNIUM.—Section 3 of such Act (2 

9 U.S.C. 622) is amended by adding at the end the 

10 following new paragraph:

11 ‘‘(11) The term ‘biennium’ means the period of 

12 2 consecutive fiscal years beginning on October 1 of 

13 any odd-numbered year.’’. 

14 (c) BIENNIAL JOINT RESOLUTION ON THE BUDG15 ET.—

16 (1) CONTENTS OF RESOLUTION.—Section 

17 301(a) of such Act (2 U.S.C. 632(a)) is amended—

18 (A) in the matter preceding paragraph (1) 

19 by—

20 (i) striking ‘‘April 15 of each year’’ 

21 and inserting ‘‘May 15 of each odd-num22 bered year’’; 

23 (ii) striking ‘‘the fiscal year beginning 

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1 it appears and inserting ‘‘the biennium be2 ginning on October 1 of such year’’; and 

3 (iii) striking ‘‘the fiscal year beginning 

4 on October 1 of such year’’ the second 

5 place it appears and inserting ‘‘each fiscal 

6 year in such period’’; 

7 (B) in paragraph (6), by striking ‘‘for the 

8 fiscal year’’ and inserting ‘‘for each fiscal year 

9 in the biennium’’; and 

10 (C) in paragraph (7), by striking ‘‘for the 

11 fiscal year’’ and inserting ‘‘for each fiscal year 

12 in the biennium’’. 

13 (2) ADDITIONAL MATTERS.—Section 301(b) of 

14 such Act (2 U.S.C. 632(b)) is amended—

15 (A) in paragraph (3), by striking ‘‘for such 

16 fiscal year’’ and inserting ‘‘for either fiscal year 

17 in such biennium’’; and 

18 (B) in paragraph (7), by striking ‘‘for the 

19 first fiscal year’’ and inserting ‘‘for each fiscal 

20 year in the biennium’’. 

21 (3) VIEWS OF OTHER COMMITTEES.—Section 

22 301(d) of such Act (2 U.S.C. 632(d)) is amended by 

23 inserting ‘‘(or, if applicable, as provided by section 

24 300(b))’’ after ‘‘United States Code’’. 
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1 (4) HEARINGS.—Section 301(e)(1) of such Act 

2 (2 U.S.C. 632(e)) is amended by—

3 (A) striking ‘‘fiscal year’’ and inserting 

4 ‘‘biennium’’; and 

5 (B) inserting after the second sentence the 

6 following: ‘‘On or before April 1 of each odd7 numbered year (or, if applicable, as provided by 

8 section 300(b)), the Committee on the Budget 

9 of each House shall report to its House the 

10 joint resolution on the budget referred to in 

11 subsection (a) for the biennium beginning on 

12 October 1 of that year.’’. 

13 (5) GOALS FOR REDUCING UNEMPLOYMENT.—

14 Section 301(f) of such Act (2 U.S.C. 632(f)) is 

15 amended by striking ‘‘fiscal year’’ each place it ap16 pears and inserting ‘‘biennium’’. 

17 (6) ECONOMIC ASSUMPTIONS.—Section 

18 301(g)(1) of such Act (2 U.S.C. 632(g)(1)) is 

19 amended by striking ‘‘for a fiscal year’’ and insert20 ing ‘‘for a biennium’’. 

21 (7) SECTION HEADING.—The section heading of 

22 section 301 of such Act is amended by striking ‘‘AN23 NUAL’’ and inserting ‘‘BIENNIAL’’. 

24 (8) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The item relating 

25 to section 301 in the table of contents set forth in 
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1 section 1(b) of such Act is amended by striking ‘‘An2 nual’’ and inserting ‘‘Biennial’’. 

3 (d) COMMITTEE ALLOCATIONS.—Section 302 of such 

4 Act (2 U.S.C. 633) is amended—

5 (1) in subsection (a)(1) by—

6 (A) striking ‘‘for the first fiscal year of the 

7 resolution,’’ and inserting ‘‘for each fiscal year 

8 in the biennium,’’; 

9 (B) striking ‘‘for that period of fiscal 

10 years’’ and inserting ‘‘for all fiscal years cov11 ered by the resolution’’; and 

12 (C) striking ‘‘for the fiscal year of that 

13 resolution’’ and inserting ‘‘for each fiscal year 

14 in the biennium’’; 

15 (2) in subsection (f)(1), by striking ‘‘for a fiscal 

16 year’’ and inserting ‘‘for a biennium’’; 

17 (3) in subsection (f)(1), by striking ‘‘first fiscal 

18 year’’ and inserting ‘‘either fiscal year of the bien19 nium’’; 

20 (4) in subsection (f)(2)(A), by—

21 (A) striking ‘‘first fiscal year’’ and insert22 ing ‘‘each fiscal year of the biennium’’; and 

23 (B) striking ‘‘the total of fiscal years’’ and 

24 inserting ‘‘the total of all fiscal years covered by 

25 the resolution’’; and 
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1 (5) in subsection (g)(1)(A), by striking ‘‘April’’ 

2 and inserting ‘‘May’’. 

3 (e) SECTION 303 POINT OF ORDER.—Section 303(a) 

4 of such Act (2 U.S.C. 634(a)) is amended by striking ‘‘for 

5 a fiscal year’’ and inserting ‘‘for a biennium’’ and by strik6 ing ‘‘the first fiscal year’’ and inserting ‘‘each fiscal year 

7 of the biennium’’. 

8 (f) PERMISSIBLE REVISIONS OF JOINT RESOLUTIONS

9 ON THE BUDGET.—Section 304 of such Act (2 U.S.C. 

10 635) is amended—

11 (1) by striking ‘‘fiscal year’’ the first two places 

12 it appears and inserting ‘‘biennium’’; 

13 (2) by striking ‘‘for such fiscal year’’; and 

14 (3) by inserting before the period ‘‘for such bi15 ennium’’.

16 (g) PROCEDURES FOR CONSIDERATION OF BUDGET

17 RESOLUTIONS.—Section 305(a)(3) of such Act (2 U.S.C. 

18 636(b)(3)) is amended by striking ‘‘fiscal year’’ and in19 serting ‘‘biennium’’. 

20 (h) COMPLETION OF HOUSE COMMITTEE ACTION ON

21 APPROPRIATION BILLS.—Section 307 of such Act (2 

22 U.S.C. 638) is amended—

23 (1) by striking ‘‘each year’’ and inserting ‘‘each 

24 odd-numbered year (or, if applicable, as provided by 

25 section 300(b), July 1)’’; 
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1 (2) by striking ‘‘annual’’ and inserting ‘‘bien2 nial’’; 

3 (3) by striking ‘‘fiscal year’’ and inserting ‘‘bi4 ennium’’; and 

5 (4) by striking ‘‘that year’’ and inserting ‘‘each 

6 odd-numbered year’’. 

7 (i) QUARTERLY BUDGET REPORTS.—Section 308 of 

8 such Act (2 U.S.C. 639) is amended by adding at the end 

9 the following new subsection: 

10 ‘‘(d) QUARTERLY BUDGET REPORTS.—The Director 

11 of the Congressional Budget Office shall, as soon as prac12 ticable after the completion of each quarter of the fiscal 

13 year, prepare an analysis comparing revenues, spending, 

14 and the deficit or surplus for the current fiscal year to 

15 assumptions included in the congressional budget resolu16 tion. In preparing this report, the Director of the Congres17 sional Budget Office shall combine actual budget figures 

18 to date with projected revenue and spending for the bal19 ance of the fiscal year. The Director of the Congressional 

20 Budget Office shall include any other information in this 

21 report that it deems useful for a full understanding of the 

22 current fiscal position of the Federal Government. The re23 ports mandated by this subsection shall be transmitted by 

24 the Director to the Senate and House Committees on the 

25 Budget, and the Congressional Budget Office shall make 
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1 such reports available to any interested party upon re2 quest.’’. 

3 (j) COMPLETION OF HOUSE ACTION ON REGULAR

4 APPROPRIATION BILLS.—Section 309 of such Act (2 

5 U.S.C. 640) is amended—

6 (1) by striking ‘‘It’’ and inserting ‘‘Except 

7 whenever section 300(b) is applicable, it’’; 

8 (2) by inserting ‘‘of any odd-numbered calendar 

9 year’’ after ‘‘July’’; 

10 (3) by striking ‘‘annual’’ and inserting ‘‘bien11 nial’’; and 

12 (4) by striking ‘‘fiscal year’’ and inserting ‘‘bi13 ennium’’. 

14 (k) RECONCILIATION PROCESS.—Section 310 of such 

15 Act (2 U.S.C. 641) is amended—

16 (1) in subsection (a), in the matter preceding 

17 paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘any fiscal year’’ and in18 serting ‘‘any biennium’’; 

19 (2) in subsection (a)(1), by striking ‘‘such fiscal 

20 year’’ each place it appears and inserting ‘‘any fiscal 

21 year covered by such resolution’’; and 

22 (3) by striking subsection (f) and redesignating 

23 subsection (g) as subsection (f). 

24 (l) SECTION 311 POINT OF ORDER.—
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1 (1) IN THE HOUSE.—Section 311(a)(1) of such 

2 Act (2 U.S.C. 642(a)) is amended—

3 (A) by striking ‘‘for a fiscal year’’ and in4 serting ‘‘for a biennium’’; 

5 (B) by striking ‘‘the first fiscal year’’ each 

6 place it appears and inserting ‘‘either fiscal 

7 year of the biennium’’; and 

8 (C) by striking ‘‘that first fiscal year’’ and 

9 inserting ‘‘each fiscal year in the biennium’’. 

10 (2) IN THE SENATE.—Section 311(a)(2) of 

11 such Act is amended—

12 (A) in subparagraph (A), by striking ‘‘for 

13 the first fiscal year’’ and inserting ‘‘for either 

14 fiscal year of the biennium’’; and 

15 (B) in subparagraph (B)—

16 (i) by striking ‘‘that first fiscal year’’ 

17 the first place it appears and inserting 

18 ‘‘each fiscal year in the biennium’’; and 

19 (ii) by striking ‘‘that first fiscal year 

20 and the ensuing fiscal years’’ and inserting 

21 ‘‘all fiscal years’’. 

22 (3) SOCIAL SECURITY LEVELS.—Section 

23 311(a)(3) of such Act is amended by—
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1 (A) striking ‘‘for the first fiscal year’’ and 

2 inserting ‘‘each fiscal year in the biennium’’; 

3 and 

4 (B) striking ‘‘that fiscal year and the ensu5 ing fiscal years’’ and inserting ‘‘all fiscal 

6 years’’. 

7 (m) MAXIMUM DEFICIT AMOUNT POINT OF

8 ORDER.—Section 312(c) of the Congressional Budget Act 

9 of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 643) is amended—

10 (1) by striking ‘‘for a fiscal year’’ and inserting 

11 ‘‘for a biennium’’; 

12 (2) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘first fiscal 

13 year’’ and inserting ‘‘either fiscal year in the bien14 nium’’; 

15 (3) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘that fiscal 

16 year’’ and inserting ‘‘either fiscal year in the bien17 nium’’; and

18 (4) in the matter following paragraph (2), by 

19 striking ‘‘that fiscal year’’ and inserting ‘‘the appli20 cable fiscal year’’. 

21 SEC. 513. AMENDMENTS TO RULES OF HOUSE OF REP22 RESENTATIVES. 

23 (a) Clause 4(a)(1)(A) of rule X of the Rules of the 

24 House of Representatives is amended by inserting ‘‘odd25 numbered’’ after ‘‘each’’. 
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1 (b) Clause 4(a)(4) of rule X of the Rules of the House 

2 of Representatives is amended by striking ‘‘fiscal year’’ 

3 and inserting ‘‘biennium’’. 

4 (c) Clause 4(b)(2) of rule X of the Rules of the House 

5 of Representatives is amended by striking ‘‘each fiscal 

6 year’’ and inserting ‘‘the biennium’’. 

7 (d) Clause 4(b) of rule X of the Rules of the House 

8 of Representatives is amended by striking ‘‘and’’ at the 

9 end of subparagraph (5), by striking the period and insert10 ing ‘‘; and’’ at the end of subparagraph (6), and by adding 

11 at the end the following new subparagraph: 

12 ‘‘(7) use the second session of each Congress to 

13 study issues with long-term budgetary and economic 

14 implications, which would include—

15 ‘‘(A) hold hearings to receive testimony 

16 from committees of jurisdiction to identify prob17 lem areas and to report on the results of over18 sight; and 

19 ‘‘(B) by January 1 of each odd-number 

20 year, issuing a report to the Speaker which 

21 identifies the key issues facing the Congress in 

22 the next biennium.’’. 

23 (e) Clause 11(i) of rule X of the Rules of the House 

24 of Representatives is amended by striking ‘‘the same or 

25 preceding fiscal year’’. 
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1 (f) Clause 4(e) of rule X of the Rules of the House 

2 of Representatives is amended by striking ‘‘annually’’ each 

3 place it appears and inserting ‘‘biennially’’ and by striking 

4 ‘‘annual’’ and inserting ‘‘biennial’’. 

5 (g) Clause 4(f) of rule X of the Rules of the House 

6 of Representatives is amended—

7 (1) by inserting ‘‘during each odd-numbered 

8 year’’ after ‘‘submits his budget’’; 

9 (2) by striking ‘‘fiscal year’’ the first place it 

10 appears and inserting ‘‘biennium’’; and 

11 (3) by striking ‘‘that fiscal year’’ and inserting 

12 ‘‘each fiscal year in such ensuing biennium’’. 

13 (h) Clause 3(d)(2)(A) of rule XIII of the Rules of 

14 the House of Representatives is amended by striking 

15 ‘‘five’’ both places it appears and inserting ‘‘six’’. 

16 (i) Clause 5(a)(1) of rule XIII of the Rules of the 

17 House of Representatives is amended by striking ‘‘fiscal 

18 year after September 15 in the preceding fiscal year’’ and 

19 inserting ‘‘biennium after September 15 of the year in 

20 which such biennium begins’’. 

21 SEC. 514. AMENDMENTS TO TITLE 31, UNITED STATES 

22 CODE. 

23 (a) DEFINITION.—Section 1101 of title 31, United 

24 States Code, is amended by adding at the end the fol25 lowing new paragraph:
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1 ‘‘(3) ‘biennium’ has the meaning given to such 

2 term in paragraph (11) of section 3 of the Congres3 sional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 

4 1974 (2 U.S.C. 622(11)).’’. 

5 (b) BUDGET CONTENTS AND SUBMISSION TO THE

6 CONGRESS.—

7 (1) SCHEDULE.—The matter preceding para8 graph (1) in section 1105(a) of title 31, United 

9 States Code, is amended to read as follows: 

10 ‘‘(a) On or before the first Monday in February of 

11 each odd-numbered year (or, if applicable, as provided by 

12 section 300(b) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974), 

13 beginning with the One Hundred Ninth Congress, the 

14 President shall transmit to the Congress, the budget for 

15 the biennium beginning on October 1 of such calendar 

16 year. The budget transmitted under this subsection shall 

17 include a budget message and summary and supporting 

18 information. The President shall include in each budget 

19 the following:’’. 

20 (2) EXPENDITURES.—Section 1105(a)(5) of 

21 title 31, United States Code, is amended by striking 

22 ‘‘the fiscal year for which the budget is submitted 

23 and the 4 fiscal years after that year’’ and inserting 

24 ‘‘each fiscal year in the biennium for which the 

25 budget is submitted and in the succeeding 4 years’’. 
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1 (3) RECEIPTS.—Section 1105(a)(6) of title 31, 

2 United States Code, is amended by striking ‘‘the fis3 cal year for which the budget is submitted and the 

4 4 fiscal years after that year’’ and inserting ‘‘each 

5 fiscal year in the biennium for which the budget is 

6 submitted and in the succeeding 4 years’’. 

7 (4) BALANCE STATEMENTS.—Section 

8 1105(a)(9)(C) of title 31, United States Code, is 

9 amended by striking ‘‘the fiscal year’’ and inserting 

10 ‘‘each fiscal year in the biennium’’. 

11 (5) GOVERNMENT FUNCTIONS AND ACTIVI12 TIES.—Section 1105(a)(12) of title 31, United 

13 States Code, is amended in subparagraph (A), by 

14 striking ‘‘the fiscal year’’ and inserting ‘‘each fiscal 

15 year in the biennium’’. 

16 (6) ALLOWANCES.—Section 1105(a)(13) of title 

17 31, United States Code, is amended by striking ‘‘the 

18 fiscal year’’ and inserting ‘‘each fiscal year in the bi19 ennium’’. 

20 (7) ALLOWANCES FOR UNANTICIPATED AND

21 UNCONTROLLABLE EXPENDITURES.—Section 

22 1105(a)(14) of title 31, United States Code, is 

23 amended by striking ‘‘that year’’ and inserting ‘‘each 

24 fiscal year in the biennium for which the budget is 

25 submitted’’. 
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1 (8) TAX EXPENDITURES.—Section 1105(a)(16) 

2 of title 31, United States Code, is amended by strik3 ing ‘‘the fiscal year’’ and inserting ‘‘each fiscal year 

4 in the biennium’’. 

5 (9) ESTIMATES FOR FUTURE YEARS.—Section 

6 1105(a)(17) of title 31, United States Code, is 

7 amended—

8 (A) by striking ‘‘the fiscal year following 

9 the fiscal year’’ and inserting ‘‘each fiscal year 

10 in the biennium following the biennium’’; 

11 (B) by striking ‘‘that following fiscal year’’ 

12 and inserting ‘‘each such fiscal year’’; and 

13 (C) by striking ‘‘fiscal year before the fis14 cal year’’ and inserting ‘‘biennium before the bi15 ennium’’.

16 (10) PRIOR YEAR OUTLAYS.—Section 

17 1105(a)(18) of title 31, United States Code, is 

18 amended—

19 (A) by striking ‘‘the prior fiscal year,’’ and 

20 inserting ‘‘each of the 2 most recently com21 pleted fiscal years,’’;

22 (B) by striking ‘‘for that year’’ and insert23 ing ‘‘with respect to those fiscal years’’; and 

24 (C) by striking ‘‘in that year’’ and insert25 ing ‘‘in those fiscal years’’. 
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1 (11) PRIOR YEAR RECEIPTS.—Section 

2 1105(a)(19) of title 31, United States Code, is 

3 amended—

4 (A) by striking ‘‘the prior fiscal year’’ and 

5 inserting ‘‘each of the 2 most recently com6 pleted fiscal years’’; 

7 (B) by striking ‘‘for that year’’ and insert8 ing ‘‘with respect to those fiscal years’’; and 

9 (C) by striking ‘‘in that year’’ each place 

10 it appears and inserting ‘‘in those fiscal years’’. 

11 (c) ESTIMATED EXPENDITURES OF LEGISLATIVE

12 AND JUDICIAL BRANCHES.—Section 1105(b) of title 31, 

13 United States Code, is amended by striking ‘‘each year’’ 

14 and inserting ‘‘each even-numbered year’’. 

15 (d) RECOMMENDATIONS TO MEET ESTIMATED DE16 FICIENCIES.—Section 1105(c) of title 31, United States 

17 Code, is amended—

18 (1) by striking ‘‘the fiscal year for’’ the first 

19 place it appears and inserting ‘‘each fiscal year in 

20 the biennium for’’; 

21 (2) by striking ‘‘the fiscal year for’’ the second 

22 place it appears and inserting ‘‘each fiscal year of 

23 the biennium, as the case may be,’’; and 

24 (3) by striking ‘‘that year’’ and inserting ‘‘for 

25 each year of the biennium’’. 
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1 (e) CAPITAL INVESTMENT ANALYSIS.—Section 

2 1105(e)(1) of title 31, United States Code, is amended 

3 by striking ‘‘ensuing fiscal year’’ and inserting ‘‘biennium 

4 to which such budget relates’’. 

5 (f) SUPPLEMENTAL BUDGET ESTIMATES AND

6 CHANGES.—

7 (1) IN GENERAL.—Section 1106(a) of title 31, 

8 United States Code, is amended—

9 (A) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), 

10 by—

11 (i) inserting ‘‘and before February 15 

12 of each even-numbered year’’ after ‘‘Before 

13 July 16 of each year’’; and 

14 (ii) striking ‘‘fiscal year’’ and insert15 ing ‘‘biennium’’; 

16 (B) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘that fis17 cal year’’ and inserting ‘‘each fiscal year in 

18 such biennium’’; 

19 (C) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘4 fiscal 

20 years following the fiscal year’’ and inserting ‘‘4 

21 fiscal years following the biennium’’; and 

22 (D) in paragraph (3), by striking ‘‘fiscal 

23 year’’ and inserting ‘‘biennium’’. 

24 (2) CHANGES.—Section 1106(b) of title 31, 

25 United States Code, is amended by—
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1 (A) striking ‘‘the fiscal year’’ and inserting 

2 ‘‘each fiscal year in the biennium’’; and 

3 (B) inserting ‘‘and before February 15 of 

4 each even-numbered year’’ after ‘‘Before July 

5 16 of each year’’. 

6 (g) CURRENT PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES ESTI7 MATES.—

8 (1) THE PRESIDENT.—Section 1109(a) of title 

9 31, United States Code, is amended—

10 (A) by striking ‘‘On or before the first 

11 Monday after January 3 of each year (on or be12 fore February 5 in 1986)’’ and inserting ‘‘At 

13 the same time the budget required by section 

14 1105 is submitted for a biennium’’; and 

15 (B) by striking ‘‘the following fiscal year’’ 

16 and inserting ‘‘each fiscal year of such period’’. 

17 (2) JOINT ECONOMIC COMMITTEE.—Section 

18 1109(b) of title 31, United States Code, is amended 

19 by striking ‘‘March 1 of each year’’ and inserting 

20 ‘‘within 6 weeks of the President’s budget submis21 sion for each odd-numbered year (or, if applicable, 

22 as provided by section 300(b) of the Congressional 

23 Budget Act of 1974)’’. 
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1 (h) YEAR-AHEAD REQUESTS FOR AUTHORIZING

2 LEGISLATION.—Section 1110 of title 31, United States 

3 Code, is amended by—

4 (1) striking ‘‘May 16’’ and inserting ‘‘March 

5 31’’; and 

6 (2) striking ‘‘year before the year in which the 

7 fiscal year begins’’ and inserting ‘‘calendar year pre8 ceding the calendar year in which the biennium be9 gins’’. 

10 SEC. 515. TWO-YEAR APPROPRIATIONS; TITLE AND STYLE 

11 OF APPROPRIATION ACTS. 

12 Section 105 of title 1, United States Code, is amend13 ed to read as follows:

14 ‘‘§ 105. Title and style of appropriations Acts 

15 ‘‘(a) The style and title of all Acts making appropria16 tions for the support of the Government shall be as fol17 lows: ‘An Act making appropriations (here insert the ob18 ject) for each fiscal year in the biennium of fiscal years 

19 (here insert the fiscal years of the biennium).’. 

20 ‘‘(b) All Acts making regular appropriations for the 

21 support of the Government shall be enacted for a biennium 

22 and shall specify the amount of appropriations provided 

23 for each fiscal year in such period. 

24 ‘‘(c) For purposes of this section, the term ‘biennium’ 

25 has the same meaning as in section 3(11) of the Congres-
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1 sional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (2 

2 U.S.C. 622(11)).’’. 

3 SEC. 516. MULTIYEAR AUTHORIZATIONS. 

4 (a) IN GENERAL.—Title III of the Congressional 

5 Budget Act of 1974 is amended by adding at the end the 

6 following new section: 

7 ‘‘MULTIYEAR AUTHORIZATIONS OF APPROPRIATIONS

8 ‘‘SEC. 316. (a) It shall not be in order in the House 

9 of Representatives or the Senate to consider any measure 

10 that contains a specific authorization of appropriations for 

11 any purpose unless the measure includes such a specific 

12 authorization of appropriations for that purpose for not 

13 less than each fiscal year in one or more bienniums.

14 ‘‘(b)(1) For purposes of this section, a specific au15 thorization of appropriations is an authorization for the 

16 enactment of an amount of appropriations or amounts not 

17 to exceed an amount of appropriations (whether stated as 

18 a sum certain, as a limit, or as such sums as may be nec19 essary) for any purpose for a fiscal year. 

20 ‘‘(2) Subsection (a) does not apply with respect to 

21 an authorization of appropriations for a single fiscal year 

22 for any program, project, or activity if the measure con23 taining that authorization includes a provision expressly 

24 stating the following: ‘Congress finds that no authoriza25 tion of appropriation will be required for [Insert name of 
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1 applicable program, project, or activity] for any subse2 quent fiscal year.’. 

3 ‘‘(c) For purposes of this section, the term ‘measure’ 

4 means a bill, joint resolution, amendment, motion, or con5 ference report.’’. 

6 (b) AMENDMENT TO TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The 

7 table of contents set forth in section 1(b) of the Congres8 sional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 is 

9 amended by adding after the item relating to section 315 

10 the following new item:

‘‘Sec. 316. Multiyear authorizations of appropriations.’’.

11 SEC. 517. GOVERNMENT STRATEGIC AND PERFORMANCE 

12 PLANS ON A BIENNIAL BASIS. 

13 (a) STRATEGIC PLANS.—Section 306 of title 5, 

14 United States Code, is amended—

15 (1) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘September 

16 30, 1997’’ and inserting ‘‘September 30, 2005’’; 

17 (2) in subsection (b)—

18 (A) by striking ‘‘at least every three years’’ 

19 and all that follows thereafter and inserting ‘‘at 

20 least every 4 years, except that strategic plans 

21 submitted by September 30, 2005, shall be up22 dated and revised by September 30, 2008’’; and 

23 (B) by striking ‘‘five years forward’’ and 

24 inserting ‘‘six years forward’’; and 
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1 (3) in subsection (c), by inserting a comma 

2 after ‘‘section’’ the second place it appears and add3 ing ‘‘including a strategic plan submitted by Sep4 tember 30, 2005, meeting the requirements of sub5 section (a)’’. 

6 (b) BUDGET CONTENTS AND SUBMISSION TO CON7 GRESS.—Paragraph (28) of section 1105(a) of title 31, 

8 United States Code, is amended by striking ‘‘beginning 

9 with fiscal year 1999, a’’ and inserting ‘‘beginning with 

10 fiscal year 2008, a biennial’’. 

11 (c) PERFORMANCE PLANS.—Section 1115 of title 31, 

12 United States Code, is amended—

13 (1) in subsection (a)—

14 (A) in the matter before paragraph (1)—

15 (i) by striking ‘‘section 1105(a)(29)’’ 

16 and inserting ‘‘section 1105(a)(28)’’; and 

17 (ii) by striking ‘‘an annual’’ and in18 serting ‘‘a biennial’’; 

19 (B) in paragraph (1) by inserting after 

20 ‘‘program activity’’ the following: ‘‘for both 

21 years 1 and 2 of the biennial plan’’; 

22 (C) in paragraph (5) by striking ‘‘and’’ 

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1 (D) in paragraph (6) by striking the period 

2 and inserting a semicolon; and inserting ‘‘and’’ 

3 after the inserted semicolon; and 

4 (E) by adding after paragraph (6) the fol5 lowing: 

6 ‘‘(7) cover each fiscal year of the biennium be7 ginning with the first fiscal year of the next biennial 

8 budget cycle.’’; 

9 (2) in subsection (d) by striking ‘‘annual’’ and 

10 inserting ‘‘biennial’’; and 

11 (3) in paragraph (6) of subsection (f) by strik12 ing ‘‘annual’’ and inserting ‘‘biennial’’. 

13 (d) MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTABILITY AND FLEXI14 BILITY.—Section 9703 of title 31, United States Code, re15 lating to managerial accountability, is amended—

16 (1) in subsection (a)—

17 (A) in the first sentence by striking ‘‘an18 nual’’; and 

19 (B) by striking ‘‘section 1105(a)(29)’’ and 

20 inserting ‘‘section 1105(a)(28)’’; 

21 (2) in subsection (e)—

22 (A) in the first sentence by striking ‘‘one 

23 or’’ before ‘‘two years’’; 
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1 (B) in the second sentence by striking ‘‘a 

2 subsequent year’’ and inserting ‘‘for a subse3 quent 2-year period’’; and 

4 (C) in the third sentence by striking 

5 ‘‘three’’ and inserting ‘‘four’’. 

6 (e) STRATEGIC PLANS.—Section 2802 of title 39, 

7 United States Code, is amended—

8 (1) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘September 

9 30, 1997’’ and inserting ‘‘September 30, 2005’’; 

10 (2) in subsection (b), by striking ‘‘at least every 

11 three years’’ and inserting ‘‘at least every 4 years 

12 except that strategic plans submitted by September 

13 30, 2005, shall be updated and revised by September 

14 30, 2008’’; 

15 (3) in subsection (b), by striking ‘‘five years 

16 forward’’ and inserting ‘‘six years forward’’; and 

17 (4) in subsection (c), by inserting a comma 

18 after ‘‘section’’ the second place it appears and in19 serting ‘‘including a strategic plan submitted by 

20 September 30, 2005, meeting the requirements of 

21 subsection (a)’’. 

22 (f) PERFORMANCE PLANS.—Section 2803(a) of title 

23 39, United States Code, is amended—

24 (1) in the matter before paragraph (1), by 

25 striking ‘‘an annual’’ and inserting ‘‘a biennial’’; 
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1 (2) in paragraph (1), by inserting after ‘‘pro2 gram activity’’ the following: ‘‘for both years 1 and 

3 2 of the biennial plan’’; 

4 (3) in paragraph (5), by striking ‘‘and’’ after 

5 the semicolon;

6 (4) in paragraph (6), by striking the period and 

7 inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 

8 (5) by adding after paragraph (6) the following: 

9 ‘‘(7) cover each fiscal year of the biennium be10 ginning with the first fiscal year of the next biennial 

11 budget cycle.’’. 

12 (g) COMMITTEE VIEWS OF PLANS AND REPORTS.—

13 Section 301(d) of the Congressional Budget Act (2 U.S.C. 

14 632(d)) is amended by adding at the end ‘‘Each committee

15 of the Senate or the House of Representatives shall review 

16 the strategic plans, performance plans, and performance 

17 reports, required under section 306 of title 5, United 

18 States Code, and sections 1115 and 1116 of title 31, 

19 United States Code, of all agencies under the jurisdiction 

20 of the committee. Each committee may provide its views 

21 on such plans or reports to the Committee on the Budget 

22 of the applicable House.’’. 

23 (h) EFFECTIVE DATE.—

24 (1) IN GENERAL.—The amendments made by 

25 this section shall take effect on March 1, 2007. 
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1 (2) AGENCY ACTIONS.—Effective on and after 

2 the date of enactment of this Act, each agency shall 

3 take such actions as necessary to prepare and sub4 mit any plan or report in accordance with the 

5 amendments made by it. 

6 SEC. 518. BIENNIAL APPROPRIATION BILLS. 

7 (a) IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.—Clause 

8 2(a) of rule XXI of the Rules of the House of Representa9 tives is amended by adding at the end the following new 

10 subparagraph: 

11 ‘‘(3)(A) Except as provided by subdivision (B), an ap12 propriation may not be reported in a general appropriation 

13 bill (other than a supplemental appropriation bill), and 

14 may not be in order as an amendment thereto, unless it 

15 provides new budget authority or establishes a level of ob16 ligations under contract authority for each fiscal year of 

17 a biennium. 

18 ‘‘(B) Subdivision (A) does not apply with respect to 

19 an appropriation for a single fiscal year for any program, 

20 project, or activity if the bill or amendment thereto con21 taining that appropriation includes a provision expressly 

22 stating the following: ‘Congress finds that no additional 

23 funding beyond one fiscal year will be required and the 

24 [Insert name of applicable program, project, or activity] 
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1 will be completed or terminated after the amount provided 

2 has been expended.’. 

3 ‘‘(C) For purposes of paragraph (b), the statement 

4 set forth in subdivision (B) with respect to an appropria5 tion for a single fiscal year for any program, project, or 

6 activity may be included in a general appropriation bill 

7 or amendment thereto.’’. 

8 (b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Clause 5(b)(1) of 

9 rule XXII of the House of Representatives is amended by 

10 striking ‘‘or (c)’’ and inserting ‘‘or (3) or 2(c)’’. 

11 SEC. 519. ASSISTANCE BY FEDERAL AGENCIES TO STAND12 ING COMMITTEES OF THE SENATE AND THE 

13 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 

14 (a) INFORMATION REGARDING AGENCY APPROPRIA15 TIONS REQUESTS.—To assist each standing committee of 

16 the House of Representatives and the Senate in carrying 

17 out its responsibilities, the head of each Federal agency 

18 which administers the laws or parts of laws under the ju19 risdiction of such committee shall provide to such com20 mittee such studies, information, analyses, reports, and 

21 assistance as may be requested by the chairman and rank22 ing minority member of the committee. 

23 (b) INFORMATION REGARDING AGENCY PROGRAM

24 ADMINISTRATION.—To assist each standing committee of 

25 the House of Representatives and the Senate in carrying 
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1 out its responsibilities, the head of any agency shall fur2 nish to such committee documentation, containing infor3 mation received, compiled, or maintained by the agency 

4 as part of the operation or administration of a program, 

5 or specifically compiled pursuant to a request in support 

6 of a review of a program, as may be requested by the 

7 chairman and ranking minority member of such com8 mittee. 

9 (c) SUMMARIES BY COMPTROLLER GENERAL.—With10 in thirty days after the receipt of a request from a chair11 man and ranking minority member of a standing com12 mittee having jurisdiction over a program being reviewed 

13 and studied by such committee under this section, the 

14 Comptroller General of the United States shall furnish to 

15 such committee summaries of any audits or reviews of 

16 such program which the Comptroller General has com17 pleted during the preceding six years. 

18 (d) CONGRESSIONAL ASSISTANCE.—Consistent with 

19 their duties and functions under law, the Comptroller Gen20 eral of the United States, the Director of the Congres21 sional Budget Office, and the Director of the Congres22 sional Research Service shall continue to furnish (con23 sistent with established protocols) to each standing com24 mittee of the House of Representatives or the Senate such 

25 information, studies, analyses, and reports as the chair-
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1 man and ranking minority member may request to assist 

2 the committee in conducting reviews and studies of pro3 grams under this section. 

4 SEC. 520. REPORT ON TWO-YEAR FISCAL PERIOD. 

5 Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment 

6 of this Act, the Director of the Office of Management and 

7 Budget shall—

8 (1) determine the impact and feasibility of 

9 changing the definition of a fiscal year and the 

10 budget process based on that definition to a 2-year 

11 fiscal period with a biennial budget process based on 

12 the 2-year period; and 

13 (2) report the findings of the study to the Com14 mittees on the Budget of the House of Representa15 tives and the Senate and the Committee on Rules of 

16 the House of Representatives. 

17 SEC. 521. SPECIAL TRANSITION PERIOD FOR THE 109TH 

18 CONGRESS. 

19 (a) PRESIDENT’S BUDGET SUBMISSION FOR FISCAL

20 YEAR 2006.—The budget submission of the President 

21 pursuant to section 1105(a) of title 31, United States 

22 Code, for fiscal year 2006 shall include the following: 

23 (1) An identification of the budget accounts for 

24 which an appropriation should be made for each fis25 cal year of the fiscal year 2006–2007 biennium. 
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1 (2) Budget authority that should be provided 

2 for each such fiscal year for the budget accounts 

3 identified under paragraph (1).

4 (b) REVIEW AND RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE COM5 MITTEES ON APPROPRIATIONS.—The Committee on Ap6 propriations of the House of Representatives and the Sen7 ate shall review the items included pursuant to subsection 

8 (a) in the budget submission of the President for fiscal 

9 year 2006 and include its recommendations thereon in its 

10 views and estimates made under section 301(d) of the 

11 Congressional Budget Act of 1974 within 6 weeks of that 

12 budget submission. 

13 (c) ACTIONS BY THE COMMITTEES ON THE BUDG14 ET.—(1) The Committee on the Budget of the House of

15 Representatives and the Senate shall review the items in16 cluded pursuant to subsection (a) in the budget submis17 sion of the President for fiscal year 2006 and the rec18 ommendations submitted by the Committee on Appropria19 tions of its House pursuant to subsection (b) included in 

20 its views and estimates made under section 301(d) of the 

21 Congressional Budget Act of 1974. 

22 (2) The report of the Committee on the Budget of 

23 each House accompanying the concurrent resolution on 

24 the budget for fiscal year 2006 and the joint explanatory 

25 statement of managers accompanying such resolution shall 
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1 also include allocations to the Committee on Appropria2 tions of its House of total new budget authority and total 

3 outlays (which shall be deemed to be made pursuant to 

4 section 302(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 

5 for purposes of budget enforcement under section 302(f)) 

6 for fiscal year 2005 from which the Committee on Appro7 priations may report regular appropriation bills for fiscal 

8 year 2006 that include funding for certain accounts for 

9 each of fiscal years 2006 and 2007. 

10 (3) The report of the Committee on the Budget of 

11 each House accompanying the concurrent resolution on 

12 the budget for fiscal year 2006 and the joint explanatory 

13 statement of managers accompanying such resolution shall 

14 also include the assumptions upon which such allocations 

15 referred to in paragraph (2) are based. 

16 (d) GAO PROGRAMMATIC OVERSIGHT ASSIST17 ANCE.—(1) During the first session of the 109th Congress 

18 the committees of the House of Representatives and the 

19 Senate are directed to work with the Comptroller General 

20 of the United States to develop plans to transition pro21 gram authorizations to a multi-year schedule. 

22 (2) During the 109th Congress, the Comptroller Gen23 eral of the United States will continue to provide assist24 ance to the Congress with respect to programmatic over25 sight and in particular will assist the committees of Con-
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1 gress in designing and conforming programmatic oversight 

2 procedures for the fiscal year 2006–2007 biennium. 

3 (e) CBO AUTHORIZATION REPORT.—On or before 

4 January 15, 2006, the Director of the Congressional 

5 Budget Office, after consultation with the appropriate 

6 committees of the House of Representatives and Senate, 

7 shall submit to the Congress a report listing (1) all pro8 grams and activities funded during fiscal year 2006 for 

9 which authorizations for appropriations have not been en10 acted for that fiscal year and (2) all programs and activi11 ties funded during fiscal year 2006 for which authoriza12 tions for appropriations will expire during that fiscal year, 

13 fiscal year 2007, or fiscal year 2008. 

14 (f) PRESIDENT’S BUDGET SUBMISSION FOR FISCAL

15 YEAR 2007.—The budget submission of the President 

16 pursuant to section 1105(a) of title 31, United States 

17 Code, for fiscal year 2007 shall include an evaluation of, 

18 and recommendations regarding, the transitional biennial 

19 budget process for the fiscal year 2006–2007 biennium 

20 that was carried out pursuant to this section. 

21 (g) CBO TRANSITIONAL REPORT.—On or before 

22 March 31, 2006, the Director of the Congressional Budget 

23 Office shall submit to Congress an evaluation of, and rec24 ommendations regarding, the transitional biennial budget 
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1 process for the fiscal year 2006–2007 biennium that was 

2 carried out pursuant to this section. 

3 Subtitle C—Prevention of 

4 Government Shutdown 

5 SEC. 531. AMENDMENT TO TITLE 31. 

6 (a) IN GENERAL.—Chapter 13 of title 31, United 

7 States Code, is amended by inserting after section 1310 

8 the following new section: 

9 ‘‘§ 1311. Continuing appropriations 

10 ‘‘(a)(1) If any regular appropriation bill for a fiscal 

11 year or for each fiscal year in a biennium does not become 

12 law prior to the beginning of such fiscal year or a joint 

13 resolution making continuing appropriations is not in ef14 fect, there is appropriated, out of any moneys in the 

15 Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and out of applicable 

16 corporate or other revenues, receipts, and funds, such 

17 sums as may be necessary to continue any project or activ18 ity for which funds were provided in the preceding fiscal 

19 year—

20 ‘‘(A) in the corresponding regular appropriation 

21 Act for such preceding fiscal year; or 

22 ‘‘(B) if the corresponding regular appropriation 

23 bill for such preceding fiscal year did not become 

24 law, then in a joint resolution making continuing ap25 propriations for such preceding fiscal year. 
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1 ‘‘(2) Appropriations and funds made available, and 

2 authority granted, for a project or activity for any fiscal 

3 year pursuant to this section shall be at a rate of oper4 ations not in excess of the lower of—

5 ‘‘(A) the rate of operations provided for in the 

6 regular appropriation Act providing for such project 

7 or activity for the preceding fiscal year, 

8 ‘‘(B) in the absence of such an Act, the rate of 

9 operations provided for such project or activity pur10 suant to a joint resolution making continuing appro11 priations for such preceding fiscal year, 

12 ‘‘(C) the rate of operations provided for in the 

13 House or Senate passed appropriation bill for the 

14 fiscal year in question, except that the lower of these 

15 two versions shall be ignored for any project or ac16 tivity for which there is a budget request if no fund17 ing is provided for that project or activity in either 

18 version, 

19 ‘‘(D) the rate provided in the budget submis20 sion of the President under section 1105(a) of title 

21 31, United States Code, for the fiscal year in ques22 tion, or 

23 ‘‘(E) the annualized rate of operations provided 

24 for in the most recently enacted joint resolution 

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1 fiscal year or any funding levels established under 

2 the provisions of this Act. 

3 ‘‘(3) Appropriations and funds made available, and 

4 authority granted, for any fiscal year pursuant to this sec5 tion for a project or activity shall be available for the pe6 riod beginning with the first day of a lapse in appropria7 tions and ending with the earlier of—

8 ‘‘(A) the date on which the applicable regular 

9 appropriation bill for such fiscal year becomes law 

10 (whether or not such law provides for such project 

11 or activity) or a continuing resolution making appro12 priations becomes law, as the case may be, or 

13 ‘‘(B) the last day of such fiscal year.

14 ‘‘(b) An appropriation or funds made available, or au15 thority granted, for a project or activity for any fiscal year 

16 pursuant to this section shall be subject to the terms and 

17 conditions imposed with respect to the appropriation made 

18 or funds made available for the preceding fiscal year, or 

19 authority granted for such project or activity under cur20 rent law. 

21 ‘‘(c) Appropriations and funds made available, and 

22 authority granted, for any project or activity for any fiscal 

23 year pursuant to this section shall cover all obligations or 

24 expenditures incurred for such project or activity during 
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1 the portion of such fiscal year for which this section ap2 plies to such project or activity.

3 ‘‘(d) Expenditures made for a project or activity for 

4 any fiscal year pursuant to this section shall be charged 

5 to the applicable appropriation, fund, or authorization 

6 whenever a regular appropriation bill or a joint resolution 

7 making continuing appropriations until the end of a fiscal 

8 year providing for such project or activity for such period 

9 becomes law. 

10 ‘‘(e) This section shall not apply to a project or activ11 ity during a fiscal year if any other provision of law (other 

12 than an authorization of appropriations)—

13 ‘‘(1) makes an appropriation, makes funds 

14 available, or grants authority for such project or ac15 tivity to continue for such period, or 

16 ‘‘(2) specifically provides that no appropriation 

17 shall be made, no funds shall be made available, or 

18 no authority shall be granted for such project or ac19 tivity to continue for such period. 

20 ‘‘(f) For purposes of this section, the term ‘regular 

21 appropriation bill’ means any annual appropriation bill 

22 making appropriations, otherwise making funds available, 

23 or granting authority, for any of the following categories 

24 of projects and activities: 
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1 ‘‘(1) Agriculture, rural development, and re2 lated agencies programs. 

3 ‘‘(2) The Departments of Commerce, Justice, 

4 and State, the judiciary, and related agencies. 

5 ‘‘(3) The Department of Defense. 

6 ‘‘(4) The government of the District of Colum7 bia and other activities chargeable in whole or in 

8 part against the revenues of the District. 

9 ‘‘(5) The Departments of Labor, Health and 

10 Human Services, and Education, and related agen11 cies. 

12 ‘‘(6) The Department of Housing and Urban 

13 Development, and sundry independent agencies, 

14 boards, commissions, corporations, and offices. 

15 ‘‘(7) Energy and water development. 

16 ‘‘(8) Foreign assistance and related programs. 

17 ‘‘(9) The Department of the Interior and re18 lated agencies. 

19 ‘‘(10) Military construction. 

20 ‘‘(11) The Departments of Transportation and 

21 Treasury, and independent agencies. 

22 ‘‘(12) The legislative branch. 

23 ‘‘(13) The Department of Homeland Security.’’. 

24 (b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The analysis of chap25 ter 13 of title 31, United States Code, is amended by in-
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1 serting after the item relating to section 1310 the fol2 lowing new item:

‘‘1311. Continuing appropriations.’’.

3 Subtitle D—Effective Date

4 SEC. 532. EFFECTIVE DATE. 

5 (a) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided by subsection 

6 (b) and by sections 520, 521, and 532, this title and the 

7 amendments made by it shall take effect on January 1, 

8 2007, and shall apply to budget resolutions and appropria9 tions for the biennium beginning with fiscal year 2008. 

10 (b) SUBTITLE C.—Subtitle C and the amendments 

11 made by it shall apply with respect to fiscal years begin12 ning with fiscal year 2005. 

13 TITLE VI—FURTHER 

14 ENFORCEMENT AMENDMENTS 

15 SEC. 601. SUPER-MAJORITY POINTS OF ORDER. 

16 (a) ELIMINATION OF EXCEPTION.—Section 303 of 

17 the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 is amended by 

18 striking ‘‘IN GENERAL.—’’ in subsection (a) and by strik19 ing subsections (b) and (c). 

20 (b) SUPER-MAJORITY POINT OF ORDER.—(1)(A) 

21 Section 904(c)(1) of the Congressional Budget Act of 

22 1974 is amended by inserting ‘‘303,’’ before ‘‘305(b)(2),’’, 

23 by inserting ‘‘312(g), (h), (i), (j), and (k),’’ before ‘‘313,’’, 

24 and by inserting ‘‘316,’’ before ‘‘904(c),’’. 
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1 (B) Section 904(c) of the Congressional Budget Act 

2 of 1974 is amended by striking ‘‘three-fifths’’ each place 

3 it appears and inserting ‘‘two-thirds’’. 

4 (2)(A) Section 904(d)(2) of the Congressional Budg5 et Act of 1974 is amended by inserting ‘‘303,’’ before 

6 ‘‘305(b)(2),’’, by inserting ‘‘312(g), (h), (i), (j), and (k),’’ 

7 before ‘‘313,’’, and by inserting ‘‘316,’’ before ‘‘904(c),’’. 

8 (B) Section 904(d) of the Congressional Budget Act 

9 of 1974 is amended by striking ‘‘three-fifths’’ each place 

10 it appears and inserting ‘‘two-thirds’’. 

11 (3)(A) Sections 904(c)(2) and (d)(3) of the Congres12 sional Budget Act of 1974 are amended by striking 

13 ‘‘311(a),’’. 

14 (B) Sections 904(c)(1) and (d)(2) of the Congres15 sional Budget Act of 1974 are amended by inserting 

16 ‘‘311(a),’’ after ‘‘310(d)(2),’’. 

17 (4) Section 904(e) of the Congressional Budget Act 

18 of 1974 is amended by striking ‘‘2002’’ and inserting 

19 ‘‘2006’’.

20 SEC. 602. BUDGET RESOLUTION ENFORCEMENT POINT OF 

21 ORDER. 

22 (a) ENTITLEMENT POINT OF ORDER.—Section 312 

23 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (as amended by 

24 sections 102, 201(d), and 304(a)) is further amended by 

25 adding at the end the following new subsection: 
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1 ‘‘(k) BUDGET RESOLUTION ENFORCEMENT POINT

2 OF ORDER.—It shall not be in order in the House of Rep3 resentatives or the Senate to consider any concurrent reso4 lution on the budget for a fiscal year, or amendment there5 to or conference report thereon, that—

6 ‘‘(1) provides for a deficit for the fiscal year of 

7 the resolution or any ensuing fiscal year included in 

8 such resolution that exceeds the maximum deficit 

9 amount for such fiscal year set forth in section 

10 253(h) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Def11 icit Control Act of 1985; 

12 ‘‘(2) is not consistent with the discretionary 

13 spending limits set forth in section 251(c) of the 

14 Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 

15 Act of 1985; or 

16 ‘‘(3) provides for an increase in the aggregate 

17 level of direct spending for the fiscal year of the res18 olution or any ensuing fiscal year included in such 

19 resolution.’’. 

20 SEC. 603. POINT OF ORDER WAIVER PROTECTION. 

21 Clause 6(c) of rule XIII of the Rules of the House 

22 of Representatives is amended by striking the period at 

23 the end of subparagraph (2) and inserting ‘‘; or’’ and by 

24 adding at the end the following new subparagraph: 
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1 ‘‘(3) a rule or order that would waive the provi2 sions of section 303, 311(a), 312(g), 312(h), 312(i), 

3 312(j), or 312(k) of the Congressional Budget Act 

4 of 1974 or of section 402 of the Family Budget Pro5 tection Act of 2003.’’.

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