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111TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 6186 

To amend the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to establish discretionary 

and mandatory deficit reduction accounts. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010 

Mr. POSEY introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 

on Rules, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, 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 Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to establish 

discretionary and mandatory deficit reduction accounts. 

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 ‘‘Cutting Earmarks And 

5 Savings Enforcement (CEASE) Act’’. 

6 SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF DISCRETIONARY DEFICIT RE7 DUCTION ACCOUNT. 

8 (a) DISCRETIONARY DEFICIT REDUCTION AC9 COUNT.—Title III of the Congressional Budget Act of 

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1 1974 is amended by adding at the end the following new 

2 section: 

3 ‘‘DISCRETIONARY DEFICIT REDUCTION ACCOUNT

4 ‘‘SEC. 316. (a) ESTABLISHMENT OF ACCOUNT.—The 

5 chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the House 

6 of Representatives and of the Senate shall each maintain 

7 an account to be known as the ‘deficit reduction Discre8 tionary Account’. The Account shall be divided into entries 

9 corresponding to the subcommittees of the Committee on 

10 Appropriations of that House and each entry shall consist 

11 of the ‘deficit reduction Balance’. 

12 ‘‘(b) COMPONENTS.—Each entry shall consist only of 

13 amounts credited to it under subsection (c). No entry of 

14 a negative amount shall be made. 

15 ‘‘(c) CREDITING OF AMOUNTS TO ACCOUNT.— 

16 ‘‘(1)(A) Whenever a Member or Senator, as the 

17 case may be, offers an amendment to an appropria18 tion bill to reduce new budget authority in any ac19 count, that Member or Senator may state the por20 tion of such reduction that shall be credited to— 

21 ‘‘(i) the deficit reduction Balance; 

22 ‘‘(ii) used to offset an increase in new 

23 budget authority in any other account; or 

24 ‘‘(iii) allowed to remain within the applica25 ble section 302(b) suballocation. 

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1 ‘‘(B) Whenever a Member or Senator, as the 

2 case may be, offers an amendment to an appropria3 tion bill dedicated to deficit reduction, the amount of 

4 new budget authority so dedicated shall be credited 

5 to the deficit reduction Balance. 

6 ‘‘(2) If no such statement is made under para7 graph (1)(A), the amount of reduction in new budg8 et authority resulting from the amendment shall be 

9 credited to the deficit reduction Balance, as applica10 ble, if the amendment is agreed to. 

11 ‘‘(3) Except as provided by paragraph (4), the 

12 chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the 

13 House of Representatives or Senate shall, upon the 

14 engrossment of any appropriation bill by that House, 

15 credit to the applicable entry balances amounts of 

16 new budget authority and outlays equal to the net 

17 amounts of reductions in budget authority and in 

18 outlays resulting from amendments agreed to by 

19 that House to that bill plus the amounts of ear20 marks dedicated to deficit reduction (whether offered 

21 as an amendment to the bill or included in the chair22 man’s mark of the bill at the request of a Member 

23 of that House) agreed to by that House to that bill. 

24 ‘‘(4) When computing the net amounts of re25 ductions in new budget authority and in outlays and 

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1 the amounts of earmarks dedicated to deficit reduc2 tion resulting from amendments agreed to by the 

3 House of Representatives or Senate to an appropria4 tion bill and the amounts of earmarks dedicated to 

5 deficit reduction that were included in the chair6 man’s mark of the bill, the chairman of the Com7 mittee on the Budget of that House shall only count 

8 those portions of such amendments agreed to that 

9 were so designated by the Members offering such 

10 amendments as amounts to be credited to the deficit 

11 reduction Balance plus the amounts of earmarks 

12 dedicated to deficit reduction (whether offered as an 

13 amendment to the bill or included in the chairman’s 

14 mark of the bill at the request of a Member of that 

15 House), or that fall within paragraph (2). 

16 ‘‘(5) The chairman of the Committee on the 

17 Budget of the House of Representatives and of the 

18 Senate shall each maintain a running tally of the 

19 amendments adopted reflecting increases and de20 creases of budget authority in the bill as reported to 

21 its House. This tally shall be available to Members 

22 or Senators during consideration of any bill by that 

23 House. 

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1 ‘‘(d) CALCULATION OF SAVINGS IN DEFICIT REDUC2 TION ACCOUNTS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

3 AND SENATE.— 

4 ‘‘(1) For the purposes of enforcing section 302(a), 

5 upon the engrossment of any appropriation bill by the 

6 House of Representatives or Senate, as applicable, the 

7 amount of budget authority and outlays calculated pursu8 ant to subsection (c)(3) shall be counted against the 

9 302(a) allocation provided to the Committee on Appro10 priations as if the amount calculated pursuant to sub11 section (c)(3) was included in the bill just engrossed. 

12 ‘‘(2) For purposes of enforcing section 302(b), upon 

13 the engrossment of any appropriation bill by the House 

14 of Representatives or Senate, as applicable, the 302(b) al15 location provided to the subcommittee for the bill just en16 grossed shall be deemed to have been reduced by the 

17 amount of budget authority and outlays calculated, pursu18 ant to subsection (c)(3). 

19 ‘‘(e) DEFINITION.—As used in this section, the term 

20 ‘appropriation bill’ means any general or special appro21 priation bill, and any bill or joint resolution making sup22 plemental, deficiency, or continuing appropriations 

23 through the end of fiscal year 2011 or any subsequent fis24 cal year, as the case may be.’’. 

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1 SEC. 3. ESTABLISHMENT OF MANDATORY DEFICIT REDUC2 TION ACCOUNT. 

3 Title III of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 

4 (as amended by section 2) is further amended by adding 

5 at the end the following new section: 

6 ‘‘MANDATORY DEFICIT REDUCTION ACCOUNT

7 ‘‘SEC. 317. (a) ESTABLISHMENT OF ACCOUNT.—The 

8 chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the House 

9 of Representatives and of the Senate shall each maintain 

10 an account to be known as the ‘deficit reduction Manda11 tory Account’. The Account shall be divided into entries 

12 corresponding to the House of Representatives or Senate 

13 committees, as applicable, that received allocations under 

14 section 302(a) in the most recently adopted joint resolu15 tion on the budget, except that it shall not include the 

16 Committee on Appropriations of that House and each 

17 entry shall consist of the ‘First Year deficit reduction Ac18 count’ and the ‘Five Year deficit reduction Account’ or 

19 the period covered by the resolution on the budget for that 

20 fiscal year, as applicable. 

21 ‘‘(b) COMPONENTS.—Each entry shall consist only of 

22 amounts credited to it under subsection (c). No entry of 

23 a negative amount shall be made. 

24 ‘‘(c) CALCULATION OF ACCOUNT SAVINGS IN HOUSE

25 AND SENATE.—For the purposes of enforcing section 

26 302(a), upon the engrossment of any bill, other than an 

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1 appropriation bill, by the House of Representatives or 

2 Senate, as applicable, the amount of budget authority and 

3 outlays calculated pursuant to subsection (d)(3) shall be 

4 counted against the 302(a) allocation provided to the ap5 plicable committee or committees of that House which re6 ported the bill as if the amount calculated pursuant to 

7 subsection (d)(3) was included in the bill just engrossed. 

8 ‘‘(d) CREDITING OF AMOUNTS TO ACCOUNT.— 

9 ‘‘(1) Whenever a Member or Senator, as the 

10 case may be, offers an amendment to a bill that re11 duces the amount of mandatory budget authority 

12 provided either under current law or proposed to be 

13 provided by the bill under consideration, that Mem14 ber or Senator may state the portion of such reduc15 tion achieved in the first year covered by the most 

16 recently adopted joint resolution on the budget and 

17 in addition the portion of such reduction achieved in 

18 the first five years covered by the most recently 

19 adopted joint resolution on the budget that shall be 

20 credited to the First Year deficit reduction Balance 

21 and the Five Year deficit reduction Balance, as ap22 plicable, if the amendment is agreed to. 

23 ‘‘(2) Except as provided by paragraph (3), the 

24 chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the 

25 House of Representatives or Senate, as applicable, 

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1 shall, upon the engrossment of any bill, other than 

2 an appropriation bill, by the House of Representa3 tives or Senate, as applicable, credit to the applica4 ble entry balances amounts of new budget authority 

5 and outlays equal to the net amounts of reductions 

6 in budget authority and in outlays resulting from 

7 amendments agreed to by that House to that bill. 

8 ‘‘(3) When computing the net amounts of re9 ductions in budget authority and in outlays resulting 

10 from amendments agreed to by the House of Rep11 resentatives or Senate, as applicable, to a bill, the 

12 chairman of the Committee on the Budget of that 

13 House shall only count those portions of such 

14 amendments agreed to that were so designated by 

15 the Members or Senators offering such amendments 

16 as amounts to be credited to the First Year deficit 

17 reduction Balance and the Five-Year deficit reduc18 tion Balance, or that fall within paragraph (2). 

19 ‘‘(4) The chairman of the Committee on the 

20 Budget of the House of Representatives and of the 

21 Senate shall each maintain a running tally of the 

22 amendments adopted reflecting increases and de23 creases of budget authority in the bill as reported to 

24 its House. This tally shall be available to Members 

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1 or Senators during consideration of any bill by that 

2 House. 

3 ‘‘(e) DEFINITION.—As used in this section, the term 

4 ‘appropriation bill’ means any general or special appro5 priation bill, and any bill or joint resolution making sup6 plemental, deficiency, or continuing appropriations 

7 through the end of fiscal year 2011 or any subsequent fis8 cal year, as the case may be.’’. 

9 SEC. 4. CONFORMING AMENDMENT. 

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

11 Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 

12 1974 is amended by inserting after the item relating to 

13 section 315 the following new items: 

‘‘Sec. 316. Discretionary deficit reduction account. 

‘‘Sec. 317. Mandatory deficit reduction account.’’. 

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