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114TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 484 

To amend the Pay-As-You-Go-Act of 2010 to create an expedited procedure 

to enact recommendations of the Government Accountability Office for 

consolidation and elimination to reduce duplication. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JANUARY 22, 2015 

Mr. DENT (for himself, Mr. COOPER, Mr. CURBELO of Florida, Mr. GIBSON, 

Mr. GROTHMAN, Mr. HANNA, Mr. JOLLY, Mr. MURPHY of Florida, Mr. 

PETERS, Mr. RIBBLE, Mr. SCHRADER, Mr. SENSENBRENNER, and Mr. 

THOMPSON of Pennsylvania) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in 

addition to the Committee on Rules, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions 

as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 

A BILL 

To amend the Pay-As-You-Go-Act of 2010 to create an expedited procedure to enact recommendations of the Government Accountability Office for consolidation and elimination to reduce duplication. 

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. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘The Duplication Elimi5 nation Act of 2015’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. EXPEDITED CONSIDERATION OF GAO REC2 OMMENDATIONS. 

3 Title II of the joint resolution entitled ‘‘A joint reso4 lution increasing the statutory limit on the public debt’’ 

5 (Public Law 111–139; 21 U.S.C. 712 note) is amended 

6 by adding at the end the following: 

7 ‘‘SEC. 22. EXPEDITED CONSIDERATION OF GAO REC8 OMMENDATIONS. 

9 ‘‘(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section— 

10 ‘‘(1) the term ‘GAO report’ means the annual 

11 report on duplication, consolidation, and elimination 

12 of duplicative government programs required under 

13 section 21; and 

14 ‘‘(2) the term ‘joint resolution’ means only a 

15 joint resolution that— 

16 ‘‘(A) makes legislative changes needed to 

17 carry out the recommendations contained in the 

18 GAO report for a year that the President did 

19 not exclude; and 

20 ‘‘(B) requires that any savings attributable 

21 to the legislative changes described in subpara22 graph (A) be transferred to the General Fund 

23 of the Treasury and be used to reduce the def24 icit. 

25 ‘‘(b) SUBMISSION OF PROPOSED BILL.— 


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1 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 90 days 

2 after the date of the publication of the GAO report 

3 for a year, the President shall transmit to Congress 

4 a special message accompanied by a proposed joint 

5 resolution. 

6 ‘‘(2) CONTENTS OF SPECIAL MESSAGE.—A spe7 cial message shall specify— 

8 ‘‘(A) recommendations outlined in the 

9 GAO report that are excluded from the pro10 posed joint resolution; 

11 ‘‘(B) in detail why the recommendations 

12 outlined in the GAO report were excluded from 

13 the proposed joint resolution; and 

14 ‘‘(C) recommendations outlined in the 

15 GAO report that are included in the proposed 

16 joint resolution. 

17 ‘‘(3) TRANSMITTAL.—The President shall sub18 mit the special message to the Secretary of the Sen19 ate if the Senate is not in session and to the Clerk 

20 of the House of Representatives if the House is not 

21 in session. 

22 ‘‘(4) PUBLIC AVAILABILITY.—The President 

23 shall make a copy of the special message and the 

24 proposed joint resolution publicly available, and shall 


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1 publish in the Federal Register a notice of the mes2 sage and information on how it can be obtained. 

3 ‘‘(c) PROCEDURES FOR EXPEDITED CONSIDER4 ATION.— 

5 ‘‘(1) INTRODUCTION.—A proposed joint resolu6 tion transmitted by the President under subsection 

7 (b) shall be introduced in the Senate (by request) on 

8 the next day on which the Senate is in session by 

9 the majority leader of the Senate or by a Member 

10 of the Senate designated by the majority leader of 

11 the Senate and shall be introduced in the House of 

12 Representatives (by request) on the next legislative 

13 day by the majority leader of the House or by a 

14 Member of the House designated by the majority 

15 leader of the House. 

16 ‘‘(2) NO REFERRAL.—A joint resolution shall 

17 not be referred to a committee in either House of 

18 Congress and shall immediately be placed on the cal19 endar. 

20 ‘‘(3) MOTION TO PROCEED.—A motion to pro21 ceed to a joint resolution is highly privileged in the 

22 House of Representatives and is privileged in the 

23 Senate and is not debatable. The motion is not sub24 ject to a motion to postpone, and all points of order 

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1 sider the vote by which the motion is agreed to or 

2 disagreed to shall not be in order. If a motion to 

3 proceed to the consideration of a joint resolution is 

4 agreed to, the joint resolution shall remain the un5 finished business of the respective House until dis6 posed of. 

7 ‘‘(4) EXPEDITED CONSIDERATION IN THE

8 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.—In the House of 

9 Representatives, a joint resolution shall be consid10 ered as read. All points of order against the joint 

11 resolution and against its consideration are waived. 

12 The previous question shall be considered as ordered 

13 on the joint resolution to its passage without inter14 vening motion except 2 hours of debate shall be di15 vided equally between the majority and minority 

16 leaders or their designees. A motion to reconsider 

17 the vote on passage of the joint resolution shall not 

18 be in order. A vote on final passage of the joint reso19 lution shall be taken in the House of Representatives 

20 on or before the close of the tenth calendar day after 

21 the date of the introduction of the joint resolution 

22 in the House of Representatives. 

23 ‘‘(5) EXPEDITED PROCEDURE IN THE SEN24 ATE.— 


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1 ‘‘(A) CONSIDERATION.—In the Senate, 

2 consideration of a joint resolution, and on all 

3 debatable motions and appeals in connection 

4 therewith, shall be limited to not more than 10 

5 hours, which shall be divided equally between 

6 the majority and minority leaders or their des7 ignees. A motion to further limit debate is in 

8 order and not debatable. An amendment to, a 

9 motion to postpone, a motion to proceed to the 

10 consideration of other business, or a motion to 

11 commit the joint resolution is not in order. 

12 ‘‘(B) PASSAGE.—If the Senate has pro13 ceeded to a joint resolution, the vote on passage 

14 of the joint resolution shall occur immediately 

15 following the conclusion of consideration of the 

16 joint resolution, and a single quorum call at the 

17 conclusion of the debate if requested in accord18 ance with the rules of the Senate. A vote on the 

19 final passage of the joint resolution shall be 

20 taken in the Senate on or before the close of 

21 the tenth calendar day after the date of the in22 troduction of the joint resolution in the Senate. 

23 ‘‘(C) RULINGS OF THE CHAIR ON PROCE24 DURE.—Appeals from the decisions of the Chair 

25 relating to the application of the rules of the 


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1 Senate, as the case may be, to the procedure re2 lating to a joint resolution shall be decided 

3 without debate. 

4 ‘‘(6) POINTS OF ORDER.—In the Senate or the 

5 House of Representatives, a Member of the Senate 

6 or House of Representatives, respectively, may raise 

7 a point of order that a joint resolution does not meet 

8 the definition of a joint resolution under subsection 

9 (b). 

10 ‘‘(7) AMENDMENT.—A joint resolution shall not 

11 be subject to amendment in either the House of 

12 Representatives or the Senate. 

13 ‘‘(8) CONSIDERATION BY THE OTHER HOUSE.— 

14 ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—If, before passing a 

15 joint resolution, one House receives from the 

16 other a joint resolution— 

17 ‘‘(i) the joint resolution from the 

18 other House shall not be referred to a com19 mittee; and 

20 ‘‘(ii) with respect to a joint resolution 

21 of the House receiving the joint resolu22 tion— 

23 ‘‘(I) the procedure in that House 

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1 tion had been received from the other 

2 House until the vote on passage; but 

3 ‘‘(II) the vote on final passage 

4 shall be on the joint resolution of the 

5 other House. 

6 ‘‘(B) REVENUE MEASURE EXCEPTION.— 

7 This paragraph shall not apply to the House of 

8 Representatives if the joint resolution received 

9 from the Senate is a revenue measure. 

10 ‘‘(9) RULES OF HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

11 AND SENATE.—This subsection is enacted by Con12 gress— 

13 ‘‘(A) as an exercise of the rulemaking 

14 power in the Senate and House of Representa15 tives, respectively, and as such it is deemed a 

16 part of the rules of each House, respectively, 

17 but applicable only with respect to the proce18 dure to be followed in that House in the case 

19 of a joint resolution, and it supersedes other 

20 rules only to the extent that it is inconsistent 

21 with such rules; and 

22 ‘‘(B) with full recognition of the constitu23 tional right of either House to change the rules 

24 (so far as relating to the procedure of that 

25 House) at any time, in the same manner and 


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1 to the same extent as in the case of any other 

2 rule of that House.’’. 

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