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Calendar No. 30 

112TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. 768 

To provide for continuing operations of Government in a fiscally responsible 

manner. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

APRIL 7 (legislative day, APRIL 5), 2011 

Mr. PAUL (for himself and Mr. DEMINT) introduced the following bill; which 

was read the first time 

APRIL 8, 2011 

Read the second time and placed on the calendar 

A BILL 

To provide for continuing operations of Government in a 

fiscally responsible manner. 

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 ‘‘Government Shutdown 

5 Prevention Act of 2011’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN PREVENTION. 

2 (a) IN GENERAL.—If any regular appropriation bill 

3 for a fiscal year does not become law before the beginning 

4 of such fiscal year or a joint resolution making continuing 

5 appropriations is not in effect the following provisions 

6 shall take effect as provided: 

7 (1) The Secretary of the Treasury shall fully 

8 pay principal and interest on the debt of the United 

9 States held by the public. 

10 (2) Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid 

11 benefits shall be fully paid and new enrollees shall 

12 be accepted. 

13 (3)(A) If the defense appropriations bill has not 

14 been enacted, the Department of Defense— 

15 (i) shall operate at 90 percent of the level 

16 of funding for the preceding fiscal year, except 

17 for funding for overseas contingencies in Iraq 

18 and Afghanistan which shall be funded at 100 

19 percent of the preceding fiscal year levels; and 

20 (ii) is authorized pay all military personnel 

21 at the full level of pay. 

22 (B) Civilian employees of the Department of 

23 Defense based in the United States will be paid at 

24 the same rate as other Federal employees provided 

25 in paragraph (4)(B). 


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1 (4) The employees of any agency of the Federal 

2 Government not funded shall— 

3 (A) report for business as normal; and 

4 (B) when funding is provided, be paid at 

5 75 percent of their salaries for the time worked 

6 while under the provisions of this section. 

7 (5) If any agency is not funded, Congress and 

8 the Executive Office of the President may only oper9 ate at 50 percent of the level of funding for the pre10 ceding fiscal year. 

11 (6) Subject to subsection (c) and if any agency 

12 is not funded, Members of Congress and the Presi13 dent shall not receive salary during the period the 

14 agency is not funded and are not eligible for back 

15 pay for such period. 

16 (7) For all other non-personnel accounts not 

17 funded by a regular appropriations bill or a joint 

18 resolution making continuing appropriations— 

(A) such functions shall operate at 2 19 ⁄3 of 

20 the level of the preceding fiscal year; 

21 (B) savings from the application of sub22 paragraph (A) shall be used to reduce the Fed23 eral budget deficit; 

24 (C) no funds shall be expended to carry 

25 out the provisions of the Patient Protection and 


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1 Affordable Care Act (Public Law 111–148); 

2 and 

3 (D) no funds shall be expended for any 

4 abortion or provided to any nongovernmental 

5 organization that promotes or performs abor6 tion. 

7 (b) EFFECTIVE PERIOD.—Except as otherwise pro8 vided in this section, this section shall apply until the date 

9 on which the applicable regular appropriation bill for such 

10 fiscal year becomes law or a continuing resolution making 

11 appropriations becomes law. 

12 (c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—Subsection (a)(6) shall not 

13 take effect until the first day of the next Congress begin14 ning after the date of enactment of this Act. 


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Calendar No. 30 

112TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. 768 

A BILL 

To provide for continuing operations of Government 

in a fiscally responsible manner. 

APRIL 8, 2011 

Read the second time and placed on the calendar 


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