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[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3096 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3096

      To prevent an economic disaster by providing budget reform.

_______________________________________________________________________

                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 10, 2010

  Mr. Bennett introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
                referred to the Committee on the Budget

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL

 
      To prevent an economic disaster by providing budget reform.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Economic Disaster Prevention Act of 
2010''.

                  TITLE I--SPENDING LIMITS AND CONTROL

                      Subtitle A--Spending Limits

SEC. 101. NON-DEFENSE DISCRETIONARY SPENDING LIMITS.

    (a) Non-Defense Discretionary Spending Limits.--Section 251 of the 
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control of Act of 1985 is amended 
to read as follows:
    ``(a) Non-Defense Discretionary Spending Limits.--For each fiscal 
year set forth in this subsection, the total level of discretionary 
spending for non-defense discretionary spending programs, projects, and 
activities shall not exceed the following levels:
            ``(1) For fiscal year 2011, $552,000,000,000 in new budget 
        authority.
            ``(2) For fiscal year 2012, $559,000,000,000 in new budget 
        authority.
            ``(3) For fiscal year 2013, $567,000,000,000 in new budget 
        authority.
            ``(4) For fiscal year 2014, $576,000,000,000 in new budget 
        authority.
            ``(5) For fiscal year 2015, $588,000,000,000 in new budget 
        authority.
            ``(6) For fiscal year 2016, $601,000,000,000 in new budget 
        authority.
            ``(7) For fiscal year 2017, $615,000,000,000 in new budget 
        authority.
            ``(8) For fiscal year 2018, $628,000,000,000 in new budget 
        authority.
            ``(9) For fiscal year 2019, $642,000,000,000 in new budget 
        authority.
            ``(10) For fiscal year 2020, $657,000,000,000 in new budget 
        authority.
    ``(b) Sequence of Sequestration Reports.--Within 15 calendar days 
after Congress adjourns to end a session and on the same day as a 
spending reduction ordered under section 252A, but prior to any 
spending reduction required by section 252A, OMB shall issue a final 
spending reduction report to reduce an excess spending amount.
    ``(c) Spending Reduction Order.--A spending reduction ordered 
pursuant to subsection (b) shall be implemented using the procedures 
set forth in section 256.''.
    (b) Conforming Amendment.--The item relating to section 251 in the 
table of contents set forth in 250(c) of the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 is amended to read as follows:

``Sec. 251. Non-defense discretionary spending limits.''.

SEC. 102. DIRECT SPENDING LIMITS.

    (a) Control of Direct Spending.--The Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985 is amended by adding after section 252 the 
following new section:

``SEC. 252A. DIRECT SPENDING LIMITS.

    ``(a) Direct Spending Limits.--For fiscal year 2011 and each 
ensuing fiscal year through fiscal year 2020, the total level of direct 
spending for all direct spending programs, projects, and activities for 
any such fiscal year shall not exceed the total level of spending for 
all such programs, projects, and activities for the previous fiscal 
year after the direct spending for each such program, project, or 
activity is increased by the calculation made pursuant to section 257.
    ``(b) Sequence of Sequestration Reports.--Within 15 calendar days 
after Congress adjourns to end a session and on the same day as a 
spending reduction ordered under sections 251, but after any spending 
reduction required by section 251, OMB shall issue a final spending 
reduction report to reduce an excess spending amount (if any remains).
    ``(c) Spending Reduction Order.--A spending reduction ordered 
pursuant to subsection (b) shall be implemented using the procedures 
set forth in section 256.''.
    (b) Conforming Amendment.--The table of contents set forth in 
250(c) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 
is amended by amending the item relating to section 256 to read as 
follows:

``Sec. 252A. Direct spending limits.''.

                     Subtitle B--Reports and Orders

SEC. 111. REPORTS AND ORDERS.

    Section 254 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 
Act of 1985 is amended to read as follows:

``SEC. 254. REPORTS AND ORDERS.

    ``(a) Timetable.--

``Date:                                            Action to be completed:
  5 days before the President's budget submission  CBO sequestration preview report.
  President's budget submission                    OMB sequestration preview report.
  August 10                                        CBO sequestration update report.
  August 20                                        OMB sequestration update report.
  10 days after end of session                     CBO sequestration final report.
  15 days after end of session                     OMB sequestration final report: Presidential order.
 

    ``(b) Submission and Availability of Reports.--Each report required 
by this section shall be submitted to the Budget Committees of the 
House of Representatives and the Senate. On the following day a notice 
of the report shall be printed in the Federal Register.
    ``(c) Sequestration Preview Reports.--
            ``(1) Reporting requirement.--On the dates specified in 
        subsection (a), OMB and CBO shall issue a preview report 
        regarding non-defense discretionary sequestration based on laws 
        enacted through those dates.
            ``(2) Non-defense discretionary spending limit 
        sequestration report.--The preview reports shall set forth 
        estimates for the current year and each subsequent year through 
        2019 of the applicable non-defense discretionary spending 
        limits and an explanation of any adjustments in such limits 
        under section 251.
            ``(3) Direct spending limit sequestration report.--The 
        preview reports shall set forth, for the current year and the 
        budget year, estimates for each of the following:
                    ``(A) The amount of total direct spending, if any, 
                calculated under subsection 252A(b).
                    ``(B) A list identifying each law enacted and 
                sequestration implemented after the date of enactment 
                of this section included in the calculation of the 
                amount of deficit increase or decrease and specifying 
                the budgetary effect of each such law.
                    ``(C) The sequestration percentage or percentages 
                necessary to eliminate a deficit increase under section 
                252A(c).
            ``(4) Explanation of differences.--The OMB reports shall 
        explain the differences between OMB and CBO estimates for each 
        item set forth in this subsection.
    ``(d) Sequestration Update Reports.--On the dates specified in 
subsection (a), OMB and CBO shall issue a sequestration update report, 
reflecting laws enacted through those dates, containing all of the 
information required in the sequestration preview reports.
    ``(e) Final Sequestration Reports.--
            ``(1) Reporting requirement.--On the dates specified in 
        subsection (a), OMB and CBO shall issue a final sequestration 
        report, updated to reflect laws enacted through those dates.
            ``(2) Non-defense discretionary spending sequestration 
        reports.--The final reports shall set forth estimates for each 
        of the following:
                    ``(A) For the current year and each subsequent year 
                the applicable non-defense discretionary spending 
                limits for each category and an explanation of any 
                adjustments in such limits under section 251.
                    ``(B) For the current year and the budget year the 
                estimated new budget authority and outlays for each 
                category and the breach, if any, in each category.
                    ``(C) For each category for which a sequestration 
                is required, the sequestration percentages necessary to 
                achieve the required reduction.
                    ``(D) For the budget year, for each account to be 
                sequestered, estimates of the baseline level of 
                budgetary resources subject to sequestration and 
                resulting outlays and the amount of budgetary resources 
                to be sequestered and resulting outlay reductions.
            ``(3) Direct spending report.--The final reports shall 
        contain all the information required in the direct spending 
        sequestration preview report. In addition, the report shall 
        contain, for the budget year, for each account to be 
        sequestered, estimates of the baseline level of sequestrable 
        budgetary resources and resulting outlays and the amount of 
        budgetary resources to be sequestered and resulting outlay 
        reductions. The report shall also contain estimates of the 
        effects on outlays of the sequestration in each outyear for 
        direct spending programs.
            ``(4) Explanation of differences.--The OMB report shall 
        explain any differences between OMB and CBO estimates of the 
        amount of any net direct spending change calculated under 
        section 252A, any excess deficit, any breach, and any required 
        sequestration percentage. The OMB report shall also explain 
        differences in the amount of sequesterable resources for any 
        budget account to be reduced if such difference is greater than 
        $5,000,000.
            ``(5) Presidential order.--On the date specified in 
        subsection (a), if in its final sequestration report OMB 
        estimates that any sequestration is required, the President 
        shall issue an order fully implementing without change all 
        sequestrations required by the OMB calculations set forth in 
        that report. This order shall be effective on issuance.
    ``(f) Within-Session Sequestration Reports.--If an appropriation 
for a fiscal year in progress is enacted (after Congress adjourns to 
end the session for that budget year and before July 1 of that fiscal 
year) that causes a breach, 10 days later CBO shall issue a report 
containing the information required in subsection (e)(2). Fifteen days 
after enactment, OMB shall issue a report containing the information 
required in subsections (e)(2) and (e)(4). On the same day as the OMB 
report, the President shall issue an order fully implementing without 
change all sequestrations required by the OMB calculations set forth in 
that report. This order shall be effective on issuance.
    ``(g) GAO Compliance Report.--Upon request of the Committee on the 
Budget of the House of Representatives or the Senate, the Comptroller 
General shall submit to Congress and the President a report on--
            ``(1) the extent to which each order issued by the 
        President under this section complies with all of the 
        requirements contained in this section, either certifying that 
        the order fully and accurately complies with such requirements 
        or indicating the respects in which it does not; and
            ``(2) the extent to which each report issued by OMB or CBO 
        under this section complies with all of the requirements 
        contained in this section, either certifying that the report 
        fully and accurately complies with such requirements or 
        indicating the respects in which it does not.
    ``(h) Low-Growth Report.--At any time, CBO shall notify Congress 
if--
            ``(1) during the period consisting of the quarter during 
        which such notification is given, the quarter preceding such 
        notification, and the 4 quarters following such notification, 
        CBO or OMB has determined that real economic growth is 
        projected or estimated to be less than zero with respect to 
        each of any 2 consecutive quarters within such period; or
            ``(2) the most recent of the Department of Commerce's 
        advance preliminary or final reports of actual real economic 
        growth indicate that the rate of real economic growth for each 
        of the most recently reported quarter and the immediately 
        preceding quarter is less than one percent.
    ``(i) Economic and Technical Assumptions.--In all reports required 
by this section, OMB shall use the same economic and technical 
assumptions as used in the most recent budget submitted by the 
President under section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code.''.

SEC. 112. SPENDING LIMITS ENFORCEMENT.

    (a) Conforming Amendments to Section 312.--Section 312 of the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974 is amended--
            (1) by striking subsection (a) and inserting the following:
    ``(a) Budget Committee Determinations.--For purposes of this title, 
the levels of new budget authority, outlays, direct spending, deficits, 
revenues, and debt, or the increases or decreases of such levels for 
purpose of section 303, shall be determined on the basis of estimates 
made by the Committee on the Budget of the House of Representatives or 
the Senate, as applicable.''; and
            (2) by striking subsections (b) and (c) and redesignating 
        subsections (d), (e), and (f) as (h), (i), and (j).
    (b) Enforcement Amendments to Section 312.--Section 312 of 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974 is further amended by adding at the 
end the following new subsections after subsection (a):
    ``(b) Non-Defense Discretionary Spending Limit Point of Order.--It 
shall not be in order in the House of Representatives or the Senate to 
consider any bill, joint resolution, amendment, concurrent resolution, 
or conference report that--
            ``(1) causes the non-defense discretionary spending limits 
        for the budget year to be breached;
            ``(2) increases the non-defense discretionary spending 
        limits for the budget year or any ensuing fiscal year; or
            ``(3) includes any provision that has the effect of 
        modifying the application of section 251 of the Balanced Budget 
        and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
    ``(c) Direct Spending Limit Point of Order.--It shall not be in 
order in the House of Representatives or the Senate to consider any 
bill, joint resolution, amendment, concurrent resolution, or conference 
report that--
            ``(1) causes the direct spending limits for the budget year 
        to be breached; or
            ``(2) increases aggregate level of direct spending for any 
        ensuing fiscal year.
    ``(d) Sequestration Application.--It shall not be in order in the 
House of Representatives or the Senate to consider any bill, joint 
resolution, amendment, concurrent resolution, or conference report 
that--
            ``(1) includes any provision that has the effect of 
        modifying the application of section 256 of the Balanced Budget 
        and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 to any program 
        subject to sequestration or exempt from sequestration; and
            ``(2) includes any provision that has the effect of 
        modifying the application of section 251 and 252A to any 
        program subject to sequestration or exempt from sequestration.
    ``(e) Waiver or Suspension.--
            ``(1) Senate.--The provisions of this section may be waived 
        or suspended in the Senate only by the affirmative vote of 
        three-fifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn.
            ``(2) House.--The provisions of this section may be waived 
        or suspended in the House of Representatives:
                    ``(A) Only by a rule or order proposing only to 
                waive such provisions by an affirmative vote of two-
                thirds of the Members, duly chosen and sworn.
                    ``(B) It shall not be in order to consider a rule 
                or order that waives the application of subparagraph 
                (A).
                    ``(C) It shall not be in order for the Speaker to 
                entertain a motion to suspend the application of this 
                section under clause 1 of rule XV of the Rules of the 
                House of Representatives.''.

SEC. 113. SPENDING REDUCTION ORDERS.

    (a) In General.--Section 256 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985 is amended to read as follows:

``SEC. 256. SPENDING REDUCTION ORDER.

    ``(a) Application.--A spending reduction order issued pursuant to 
this part shall apply to eliminate breaches of the limits set forth in 
sections 251 (non-defense discretionary spending limits) and 252A 
(direct spending limits).
    ``(b) Waiver or Suspension.--
            ``(1) Senate.--In the Senate, the provisions of this 
        section may be waived or suspended in the Senate only by the 
        affirmative vote of two-thirds of the Members, duly chosen and 
        sworn.
            ``(2) House.--In the House:
                    ``(A) The provisions of this section may be waived 
                or suspended in the House of Representatives only by a 
                rule or order proposing only to waive such provisions 
                by an affirmative vote of two-thirds of the Members, 
                duly chosen and sworn.
                    ``(B) It shall not be in order to consider a rule 
                or order that waives the application of paragraph (1).
                    ``(C) It shall not be in order for the Speaker to 
                entertain a motion to suspend the application of this 
                section under clause 1 of rule XV of the Rules of the 
                House of Representatives.
    ``(c) General Rules.--
            ``(1) Calculation of spending reduction percentage.--OMB 
        shall include in its final spending sequestration report a 
        requirement that each nonexempt spending account shall be 
        reduced by an amount of budget authority calculated by 
        multiplying the baseline level of budgetary resources in that 
        account at that time by the uniform percentage necessary to 
        reduce outlays sufficient to eliminate an excess spending 
        amount.
            ``(2) Exemptions.--The following shall be exempt from 
        reduction under any order issued under this section:
                    ``(A) Payments for net interest.
                    ``(B) Benefits payable under the old-age, 
                survivors, and disability insurance program established 
                under title II of the Social Security Act if--
                            ``(i) OASDI Trust Funds are actuarially 
                        solvent in the 75-year period utilized in the 
                        most recent annual report of the Board of 
                        Trustees provided pursuant to section 201(C)(2) 
                        of the Social Security Act; and
                            ``(ii) OASDI Trust Funds have not run a 
                        cash deficit in the fiscal year prior to the 
                        transmittal of the most recent Sequestration 
                        Preview Report.
                    ``(C) Benefits provided to veterans defined as 
                direct spending payable by the Department of Veterans 
                affairs.
                    ``(D) Obligated balances of budget authority 
                carried over from prior fiscal years.
                    ``(E) Any obligations of the Federal Government 
                required to be paid under the United States 
                Constitution or legally contractual obligations.
                    ``(F) Provisions of spending legislation designated 
                by the President, and so designated in statute, as an 
                emergency, except an amount of budget authority and the 
                outlays flowing therefrom so designated that is above 
                the emergency reserve fund as calculated in section 
                317(b) of Congressional Budget Act of 1974 shall not be 
                exempt.
                    ``(G) Any program whose growth in the budget year 
                is equal to or less than the consumer price index.
                    ``(H) Intergovernmental transfers.
            ``(3) One-percent reduction limitation.--No program shall 
        be subject to a spending reduction of more than one percent of 
        its budgetary resources.
            ``(4) Calculation of spending reduction.--The percentage 
        required to produce a spending reduction, as ordered by a 
        spending reduction order, shall be calculated by OMB by adding 
        all budgetary resources of the Government, and reducing that 
        amount by an amount sufficient to reduce the total amount of 
        outlays of the Government to equal, or lower, a level of 
        outlays than the amount set forth in the guideline period.
            ``(5) Application.--Once issued, a spending reduction shall 
        be applied to nonexempt programs as follows:
                    ``(A) Budgetary resources subject to a spending 
                reduction to any non-defense discretionary account 
                shall be permanently canceled.
                    ``(B) The same percentage spending reduction shall 
                apply to all programs, projects, and activities within 
                a budget account (with programs, projects, and 
                activities as delineated in the appropriation Act or 
                accompanying report for the relevant fiscal year 
                covering that account, or for accounts not included in 
                appropriation Acts, as delineated in the most recently 
                submitted President's budget).
                    ``(C) Administrative regulations implementing a 
                spending reduction shall be made within 120 days of the 
                issue of a spending reduction order.
            ``(6) OASDI special procedures.--If the OASDI Trust Funds 
        are subject to sequestration, then payments from such Trust 
        Funds shall be treated the same as other programs, except--
                    ``(A) reductions from such Trust Funds shall not 
                exceed one percent of the 75-year unfunded liability 
                set forth in the most current Social Security Trustees 
                Report;
                    ``(B) reduction in individual benefits shall be 
                implemented by increasing the Normal Retirement Age by 
                an amount certified by the Social Security Office of 
                the Chief Actuary;
                    ``(C) the increase in the Normal Retirement Age 
                shall not be applied to any beneficiary born in a year 
                55 years or before--
                            ``(i) the year of the enactment of the 
                        Economic Disaster Prevention Act of 2010; or
                            ``(ii) the year in which the final spending 
                        sequestration report is issued; and
                    ``(D) no change in the Normal Retirement Age shall 
                be made before it is fully phased-in under the Social 
                Security Act as in effect before the date of enactment 
                of the Economic Disaster Prevention Act of 2010.
    ``(d) Non-Defense Discretionary Spending Sequestration.--
            ``(1) Eliminating a breach.--Each nonexempt account shall 
        be reduced by an amount of budget authority calculated by 
        multiplying the baseline level of budgetary resources subject 
        to sequestration in that account at that time by the uniform 
        percentage necessary to eliminate a breach by--
                    ``(A) first, calculating the uniform percentage 
                necessary to eliminate a breach in new budget 
                authority, if any; and
                    ``(B) second, if any breach in outlays remains, 
                increasing the uniform percentage to a level sufficient 
                to eliminate that breach.
            ``(2) Emergency spending above the reserve fund.--An amount 
        of budget authority and the outlays flowing therefrom 
        designated in statute as an emergency that is above level in 
        the emergency reserve fund as calculated in section 317(b) of 
        the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 shall count toward the 
        non-defense discretionary spending limits.
            ``(3) Part-year appropriations.--If, on the date specified 
        in paragraph (1), there is in effect an Act making or 
        continuing appropriations for part of a fiscal year for any 
        budget account, then the dollar sequestration calculated for 
        that account under paragraph (2) shall be subtracted from--
                    ``(A) the annualized amount otherwise available by 
                law in that account under that or a subsequent part-
                year appropriation; and
                    ``(B) when a full-year appropriation for that 
                account is enacted, from the amount otherwise provided 
                by the full year appropriation.
            ``(4) Look-back.--If, after June 30, an appropriation for 
        the fiscal year in progress is enacted that causes a breach for 
        that year, the non-defense discretionary spending limits for 
        the next fiscal year shall be reduced by the amount of the 
        breach.
            ``(5) Within-session sequestration.--If an appropriation 
        for a fiscal year in progress is enacted (after Congress 
        adjourns to end the session for that budget year and before 
        July 1 of that fiscal year) that causes a breach for that year 
        (after taking into account any prior sequestration of amounts), 
        15 days later there shall be a sequestration to eliminate that 
        breach following the procedures set forth in paragraphs (2) 
        through (3).
            ``(6) Estimates.--
                    ``(A) CBO estimates.--As soon as practicable after 
                Congress completes action on any non-defense 
                discretionary appropriation, CBO, after consultation 
                with the Committees on the Budget of the House of 
                Representatives and the Senate, shall provide OMB with 
                an estimate of the amount of non-defense discretionary 
                new budget authority and outlays for the current year 
                (if any) and the budget year provided by that 
                legislation.
                    ``(B) OMB estimates.--Not later than 7 calendar 
                days (excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays) 
                after the date of enactment of any non-defense 
                discretionary appropriation, OMB shall transmit a 
                report to the House of Representatives and to the 
                Senate containing the CBO estimate of that legislation, 
                an OMB estimate of the amount of non-defense 
                discretionary new budget authority and outlays for the 
                current year (if any) and the budget year provided by 
                that legislation, and an explanation of any difference 
                between the two estimates.
                    ``(C) Explanation of differences between omb and 
                omb estimates.--If OMB determines that there is a 
                significant difference between OMB and CBO reports 
                prepared pursuant to subparagraph (A) and (B), OMB 
                shall consult with the Committees on the Budget of the 
                House of Representatives and the Senate regarding that 
                difference and that consultation shall include, to 
                extent practicable, written communication to those 
                committees that affords such committees the opportunity 
                to comment before the issuance of the report.
                    ``(D) Assumptions and guidelines.--OMB estimates 
                under this paragraph shall be made using current 
                economic and technical assumptions. OMB shall use the 
                OMB estimates transmitted to Congress under this 
                paragraph. OMB and CBO shall prepare estimates under 
                this paragraph in conformance with scorekeeping 
                guidelines determined after consultation among the 
                House of Representatives and Senate Committees on the 
                Budget, CBO, and OMB.
                    ``(E) Annual appropriations.--For purposes of this 
                paragraph, amounts provided by annual appropriations 
                shall include any new budget authority and outlays for 
                the current year (if any) and the budget year in 
                accounts for which funding is provided in that 
                legislation that result from previously enacted 
                legislation.
            ``(7) Non-defense discretionary sequestration limitation.--
        If appropriations for a fiscal year do not require a sequester 
        pursuant to the non-defense discretionary spending limits set 
        forth in this Act, non-defense discretionary accounts shall not 
        be subject to sequestration under section 252A.''.
    (b) Technical and Conforming Amendments.--
            (1) Repeals.--Section 255 of the Balanced Budget and 
        Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 is repealed.
            (2) Conforming amendment.--The item relating to section 256 
        in the table of contents set forth in section 250(a) of the 
        Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 is 
        amended to read as follows:

``Sec. 256. Spending reduction order.''.

         TITLE II--PROHIBITION ON NEW DIRECT SPENDING PROGRAMS

SEC. 201. PROHIBITION ON NEW DIRECT SPENDING PROGRAMS.

    (a) In General.--It shall not be in order in the Senate or the 
House of Representatives to consider any bill, resolution, amendment, 
motion, conference report, or other provision that increases the level 
of direct spending for an existing program or creates new direct 
spending unless the provision provides that the increased or new direct 
spending expires 10 years after the effective date of such spending.
    (b) Waiver, Suspension, and Appeals.--
            (1) In the senate.--
                    (A) Waiver and suspension.--The provisions of this 
                section may be waived or suspended in the Senate only 
                by the affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members, 
                duly chosen and sworn.
                    (B) Appeals.--Appeals in the Senate from the 
                decisions of the Chair relating to any provision of 
                this section shall be limited to 1 hour, to be equally 
                divided between, and controlled by, the appellant and 
                the manager of the bill or joint resolution, as the 
                case may be. An affirmative vote of three-fifths of the 
                Members of the Senate, duly chosen and sworn, shall be 
                required to sustain an appeal of the ruling of the 
                Chair on a point of order raised under this section.
            (2) In the house of representatives.--The provisions of 
        this section may be waived or suspended in the House of 
        Representatives:
                    (A) Only by a rule or order proposing only to waive 
                such provisions by an affirmative vote of two-thirds of 
                the Members, duly chosen and sworn.
                    (B) It shall not be in order to consider a rule or 
                order that waives the application of subparagraph (A).
                    (C) It shall not be in order for the Speaker to 
                entertain a motion to suspend the application of this 
                section under clause 1 of rule XV of the Rules of the 
                House of Representatives.
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