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110TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. 665 

To require congressional approval of loans made by the Secretary of 

Transportation in excess of $1,000,000,000. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

FEBRUARY 16, 2007 

Mr. COLEMAN (for himself and Ms. KLOBUCHAR) introduced the following bill; 

which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, 

Science, and Transportation 

A BILL 

To require congressional approval of loans made by the 

Secretary of Transportation in excess of $1,000,000,000. 

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

3 SECTION 1. NOTICE BY THE SECRETARY. 

4 The Secretary of Transportation may not make a 

5 loan or loans to any entity in excess of $1,000,000,000 

6 in the aggregate over a 5 year period unless the loan ex7 ceeding the $1,000,000,000 limit is approved by Congress 

8 as provided in section 3 not later than 6 months after no9 tice is provided to Congress. 


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1 SEC. 2. PROCEDURE. 

2 (a) CONTENTS OF RESOLUTION.—For the purposes 

3 of this section, the term ‘‘joint resolution’’ means only a 

4 joint resolution introduced after the date on which Con5 gress receives notice from the Secretary of Transportation 

6 under section 2 the matter after the resolving clause of 

7 which is as follows: ‘‘The Congress approves the loan num8 bered lllll by the Secretary of Transportation to 

9 (entity) in the amount of llllll.’’. 

10 (b) REFERRAL TO COMMITTEE.—A resolution de11 scribed in subsection (a) introduced in the House of Rep12 resentatives shall be referred to the Committee on Trans13 portation and Infrastructure of the House of Representa14 tives. A resolution described in subsection (a) introduced 

15 in the Senate shall be referred to the Committee on Com16 merce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate. Such 

17 a resolution may not be reported before the 8th day after 

18 its introduction. 

19 (c) DISCHARGE OF COMMITTEE.—If the committee 

20 to which is referred a resolution described in subsection 

21 (a) has not reported such resolution (or an identical reso22 lution) at the end of 15 calendar days after its introduc23 tion such resolution shall be placed on the appropriate cal24 endar of the House involved. 

25 (d) FLOOR CONSIDERATION.— 


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1 (1) IN GENERAL.—When the committee to 

2 which a resolution is referred has reported, or has 

3 been deemed to be discharged (under subsection (c)) 

4 from further consideration of, a resolution described 

5 in subsection (a), it is at any time thereafter in 

6 order (even though a previous motion to the same 

7 effect has been disagreed to) for any Member of the 

8 respective House to move to proceed to the consider9 ation of the resolution, and all points of order 

10 against the resolution (and against consideration of 

11 the resolution) are waived. The motion is highly 

12 privileged in the House of Representatives and is 

13 privileged in the Senate and is not debatable. The 

14 motion is not subject to amendment, or to a motion 

15 to postpone, or to a motion to proceed to the consid16 eration of other business. A motion to reconsider the 

17 vote by which the motion is agreed to or disagreed 

18 to shall not be in order. If a motion to proceed to 

19 the consideration of the resolution is agreed to, the 

20 resolution shall remain the unfinished business of 

21 the respective House until disposed of. 

22 (2) DEBATE.—Debate on the resolution, and on 

23 all debatable motions and appeals in connection 

24 therewith, shall be limited to not more than 10 

25 hours, which shall be divided equally between those 


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1 favoring and those opposing the resolution. A motion 

2 further to limit debate is in order and not debatable. 

3 An amendment to, or a motion to postpone, or a mo4 tion to proceed to the consideration of other busi5 ness, or a motion to recommit the resolution is not 

6 in order. A motion to reconsider the vote by which 

7 the resolution is agreed to or disagreed to is not in 

8 order. 

9 (3) VOTE ON FINAL PASSAGE.—Immediately 

10 following the conclusion of the debate on a resolu11 tion described in subsection (a), and a single quorum 

12 call at the conclusion of the debate if requested in 

13 accordance with the rules of the appropriate House, 

14 the vote on final passage of the resolution shall 

15 occur. 

16 (4) RULINGS OF THE CHAIR ON PROCEDURE.— 

17 Appeals from the decisions of the Chair relating to 

18 the application of the rules of the Senate or the 

19 House of Representatives, as the case may be, to the 

20 procedure relating to a resolution described in sub21 section (a) shall be decided without debate. 

22 (e) COORDINATION WITH ACTION BY OTHER

23 HOUSE.—If, before the passage by one House of a resolu24 tion of that House described in subsection (a), that House 


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1 receives from the other House a resolution described in 

2 subsection (a), then the following procedures shall apply: 

3 (1) The resolution of the other House shall not 

4 be referred to a committee. 

5 (2) With respect to a resolution described in 

6 subsection (a) of the House receiving the resolu7 tion— 

8 (A) the procedure in that House shall be 

9 the same as if no resolution had been received 

10 from the other House; but 

11 (B) the vote on final passage shall be on 

12 the resolution of the other House. 

13 (f) RULES OF HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND

14 SENATE.—This section is enacted by Congress— 

15 (1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of 

16 the Senate and House of Representatives, respec17 tively, and as such it is deemed a part of the rules 

18 of each House, respectively, but applicable only with 

19 respect to the procedure to be followed in that 

20 House in the case of a resolution described in sub21 section (a), and it supersedes other rules only to the 

22 extent that it is inconsistent with such rules; and 

23 (2) with full recognition of the constitutional 

24 right of either House to change the rules (so far as 

25 relating to the procedure of that House) at any time, 


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1 in the same manner and to the same extent as in 

2 the case of any other rule of that House. 

3 SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE. 

4 This Act shall take effect January 1, 2007. 

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