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112TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 2837 

To amend the Budget Control Act of 2011 to require the joint select committee of Congress to report findings and propose legislation to restore 

the Nation’s workforce to full employment over the period of fiscal 

years 2012 and 2013. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011 

Mr. LARSON of Connecticut (for himself, Mr. BOSWELL, Mr. CLAY, Ms. 

ESHOO, Ms. NORTON, Mr. PASCRELL, Mr. ROTHMAN of New Jersey, and 

Mr. TOWNS) introduced the following bill 

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011 

Referred to the Committee on Rules 

A BILL 

To amend the Budget Control Act of 2011 to require the 

joint select committee of Congress to report findings 

and propose legislation to restore the Nation’s workforce 

to full employment over the period of fiscal years 2012 

and 2013. 

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 ‘‘Job Creation and Eco5 nomic Growth Act’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS TO THE BUDGET CONTROL ACT OF 

2 2011. 

3 (a) TITLE AMENDMENT.—The title heading of title 

4 IV of the Budget Control Act of 2011 (Public Law 112– 

5 25) is amended by inserting ‘‘, JOB CREATION, 

6 AND ECONOMIC GROWTH’’ after ‘‘DEFICIT 

7 REDUCTION’’. 

8 (b) ADDITIONAL DUTIES OF JOINT SELECT COM9 MITTEE.—Section 401 of the Budget Control Act of 2011 

10 (Public Law 112–25) is amended— 

11 (1) in subsection (a)(1), by inserting ‘‘, Job 

12 Creation, and Economic Growth’’ after ‘‘Deficit Re13 duction’’; 

14 (2) in subsection (b)— 

15 (A) in paragraph (1), by inserting ‘‘, Job 

16 Creation, and Economic Growth’’ after ‘‘Deficit 

17 Reduction’’; 

18 (B) in paragraph (2)— 

19 (i) in the paragraph heading, by strik20 ing ‘‘GOAL’’ and inserting ‘‘GOALS’’; 

21 (ii) by striking ‘‘goal’’ and inserting 

22 ‘‘goals’’; and 

23 (iii) by inserting before the period 

24 ‘‘and to spur economic growth and restore 

25 the Nation’s workforce to full employment, 

26 which shall be defined by the Secretary of 


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1 Labor not later than 14 days after the 

2 date of enactment of the Job Creation and 

3 Economic Growth Act, over the period of 

4 fiscal years 2012 and 2013’’; 

5 (C) in paragraph (3)(A)(i), by inserting 

6 ‘‘and significantly improve the short-term and 

7 long-term employment levels in the United 

8 States and spur economic growth’’ before the 

9 period; 

10 (D) in paragraph (3)(A)(ii), by striking 

11 ‘‘reduce the deficit consistent with the goal’’ 

12 and inserting ‘‘reduce the deficit and improve 

13 employment levels consistent with the goal’’; 

14 (E) in paragraph (3)(B)— 

15 (i) in the subparagraph heading, by 

16 striking ‘‘REPORT’’ and inserting ‘‘RE17 PORTS’’; 

18 (ii) in clause (i)— 

19 (I) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end 

20 of subclause (I); 

21 (II) in subclause (II), by insert22 ing ‘‘with respect to deficit reduction’’ 

23 after ‘‘subclause (I)’’; 


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1 (III) by striking the period at the 

2 end of subclause (II) and inserting a 

3 semicolon; 

4 (IV) by inserting after subclause 

5 (II) the following new subclauses: 

6 ‘‘(III) proposed legislative lan7 guage to carry out such recommenda8 tions as described in subclause (I) 

9 with respect to job creation measures, 

10 which shall include a statement of the 

11 job creation achieved by the legislation 

12 over the period of fiscal years 2012 

13 and 2013.’’; and 

14 (iii) in clause (iv), by striking ‘‘the 

15 joint committee report’’ and inserting 

16 ‘‘that joint committee report’’; and 

17 (iv) in clause (v), by striking ‘‘vote’’ 

18 and inserting ‘‘votes’’; and 

19 (F) in paragraph (4)— 

20 (i) in subparagraph (A), by striking 

21 ‘‘12’’ and inserting ‘‘16’’; 

22 (ii) in each of clause (i) through (iv) 

23 of subparagraph (B), by striking ‘‘three’’ 

24 each place it appears and inserting ‘‘4’’; 

25 and 


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1 (iii) by adding at the end the fol2 lowing new subparagraph: 

3 ‘‘(F) SUBCOMMITTEE.—The joint com4 mittee shall appoint some of its members to a 

5 special subcommittee which shall make rec6 ommendations to the joint committee on meas7 ures to spur economic growth and restore the 

8 Nation’s workforce to full employment over the 

9 period of fiscal years 2012 and 2013.’’. 

10 (c) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS RELATING TO EXPE11 DITED CONSIDERATION OF JOINT COMMITTEE REC12 OMMENDATIONS.—Section 402 of the Budget Control Act 

13 of 2011 (Public Law 112–25) is amended— 

14 (1) in subsection (a)— 

15 (A) by striking ‘‘If approved by the major16 ity’’ and all that follows through ‘‘section 

17 401(b)(3)(B)(iv)’’ and insert the following: 

18 ‘‘(1) APPROVED DEFICIT REDUCTION LEGISLA19 TIVE LANGUAGE.—If approved by the majority re20 quired by section 401(b)(3)(B)(ii), the proposed leg21 islative language described in clause (i)(II) of section 

22 401(b)(1)(B) and submitted pursuant to clause (iv) 

23 of such section’’; and 

24 (B) by adding at the end the following: 

25 ‘‘(2) JOB CREATION LEGISLATIVE LANGUAGE.— 


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1 ‘‘(A) IF APPROVED.—If approved by the 

2 majority required by section 401(b)(3)(B)(ii), 

3 the proposed legislative language described in 

4 clause (i)(III) of section 401(b)(1)(B) sub5 mitted pursuant to clause (iv) of such section 

6 shall be introduced in the Senate (by request) 

7 on the next day on which the Senate is in ses8 sion by the majority leader of the Senate or by 

9 a Member of the Senate designated by the ma10 jority leader of the Senate and shall be intro11 duced in the House of Representatives (by re12 quest) on the next legislative day by the major13 ity leader of the House or by a Member of the 

14 House designated by the majority leader of the 

15 House. 

16 ‘‘(B) IF NOT APPROVED.—If no legislative 

17 language described in subclause (III) of section 

18 401(b)(1)(B)(i) is approved by the vote re19 quired by such section, then any such legislative 

20 language that was brought to a vote under such 

21 section shall be introduced in the Senate (by re22 quest) on the next day on which the Senate is 

23 in session by the majority leader of the Senate 

24 or by a Member of the Senate designated by the 

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1 troduced in the House of Representatives (by 

2 request) on the next legislative day by the ma3 jority leader of the House or by a Member of 

4 the House designated by the majority leader of 

5 the House.’’; 

6 (2) in subsection (b)— 

7 (A) in paragraph (1)— 

8 (i) by striking ‘‘the joint committee 

9 bill’’ each place it appears and inserting ‘‘a 

10 joint committee bill’’; and 

11 (ii) in the last sentence, by striking 

12 ‘‘the joint committee bill’’ and inserting 

13 ‘‘that joint committee bill’’; 

14 (B) in paragraph (2), in the first sentence, 

15 by striking ‘‘the joint committee bill’’ and in16 serting ‘‘that joint committee bill’’; and 

17 (C) in paragraph (3), by striking ‘‘The 

18 joint committee bill’’ and inserting ‘‘A joint 

19 committee bill’’; 

20 (3) in subsection (c)— 

21 (A) in paragraphs (3) and (4), by striking 

22 ‘‘the joint committee bill’’ each place it appears 

23 and inserting ‘‘a joint committee bill’’; and 


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1 (B) in paragraph (5), by striking ‘‘the 

2 joint committee bill’’ the first place it appears 

3 and inserting ‘‘a joint committee bill’’; 

4 (4) in subsection (d), by striking ‘‘The joint 

5 committee bill’’ and insert ‘‘A joint committee bill’’; 

6 (5) in subsection (e)(1) in the matter preceding 

7 subparagraph (A)— 

8 (A) by striking ‘‘before passing the joint’’ 

9 and inserting ‘‘before passing a joint’’; and 

10 (B) by striking ‘‘a joint committee bill’’ 

11 and inserting ‘‘a related joint committee bill’’; 

12 (6) in subsection (f)(2)— 

13 (A) by striking ‘‘the joint committee bill’’ 

14 the first place it appears and inserting ‘‘a joint 

15 committee bill’’; and 

16 (B) by striking ‘‘receives the joint com17 mittee bill’’ and inserting ‘‘receives the related 

18 joint committee bill’’; 

19 (7) in subsection (f)(3), by striking ‘‘the joint 

20 committee bill’’ and inserting ‘‘a joint committee 

21 bill’’; and 

22 (8) in subsection (g)— 

23 (A) in paragraph (1), by inserting ‘‘, in the 

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1 duced pursuant to subsection (a)(1)’’ before the 

2 semicolon; and 

3 (B) in paragraph (2), by inserting ‘‘, in the 

4 case of any joint committee bill that was intro5 duced pursuant to subsection (a)’’ before the 

6 period. 

7 (d) TABLE OF CONTENTS AMENDMENT.—In the 

8 table of contents in section 1(b) of the Budget Control 

9 Act of 2011, the item relating to title IV is amended to 

10 read as follows: 

‘‘TITLE IV—JOINT SELECT COMMITTEE ON DEFICIT REDUCTION, 

JOB CREATION, AND ECONOMIC GROWTH’’. 

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