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113TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3645 
To require the Comptroller General of the United States to submit a legisla-
tive proposal to Congress to reorganize executive branch agencies, and 
for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
DECEMBER 3, 2013 
Ms. KUSTER introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the 
Committee on Rules, 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 require the Comptroller General of the United States 
to submit a legislative proposal to Congress to reorganize 
executive branch agencies, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Executive Agency Sim-
plification and Efficiency Act’’ or the ‘‘EASE Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT FOR COMPTROLLER GENERAL TO 
SUBMIT LEGISLATIVE PROPOSAL TO REOR-
GANIZE EXECUTIVE BRANCH AGENCIES. 
(a) LEGISLATIVE PROPOSAL REQUIREMENT.—The 
Comptroller General of the United States shall submit one 
legislative proposal to Congress, with a copy transmitted 
to the President at the same time, to reorganize executive 
branch agencies in order to achieve the following: 
(1) A decrease in the total number of Federal 
agencies that promote American competitiveness, ex-
ports, and businesses, in order to improve and sim-
plify support and services for American businesses. 
(2) Cost savings in the performance by the 
Federal Government of support and services for 
American businesses. 
(b) DEADLINE.—The Comptroller General shall sub-
mit the legislative proposal required by subsection (a) not 
later than one year after the date of the enactment of this 
Act. 
(c) AGENCY DEFINED.—In this Act, the term ‘‘agen-
cy’’ has the meaning provided in section 551(1) of title 
5, United States Code. 
SEC. 3. EXPEDITED CONGRESSIONAL CONSIDERATION OF 
GAO LEGISLATIVE PROPOSAL. 
(a) DEFINITION.—In this section, the term ‘‘bill’’ 
means only a bill that implements the legislative proposal 
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submitted to Congress under section 2(a) and that is in-
troduced within the 90-day period beginning on the date 
on which the Comptroller General submits the legislative 
proposal to Congress under section 2(a). 
(b) REFERRAL.—A bill described in subsection (a) 
that is introduced in the House of Representatives shall 
be referred to the committee with jurisdiction over the 
subject matter concerned. A bill described in subsection 
(a) introduced in the Senate shall be referred to the com-
mittee with jurisdiction over the subject matter concerned. 
An amendment to the bill is not in order in the committee 
in either House. 
(c) DISCHARGE.—If the committee to which a bill de-
scribed in subsection (a) is referred has not reported such 
a bill (or an identical bill) by the end of the 20-day period 
beginning on the date on which the Comptroller General 
submits the proposal to the Congress under section 2, such 
committee shall be, at the end of such period, discharged 
from further consideration of such bill, and such bill shall 
be placed on the appropriate calendar of the House in-
volved. 
(d) CONSIDERATION.—(1) On or after the third day 
after the date on which the committee to which such a 
bill is referred has reported, or has been discharged (under 
subsection (c)) from further consideration of, such a bill, 
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it is in order (even though a previous motion to the same 
effect has been disagreed to) for any Member of the re-
spective House to move to proceed to the consideration 
of the bill. A Member may make the motion only on the 
day after the calendar day on which the Member an-
nounces to the House concerned the Member’s intention 
to make the motion, except that, in the case of the House 
of Representatives, the motion may be made without such 
prior announcement if the motion is made by direction of 
the committee to which the bill was referred. All points 
of order against the bill (and against consideration of the 
bill) are waived. The motion is highly privileged in the 
House of Representatives and is privileged in the Senate 
and is not debatable. The motion is not subject to amend-
ment, or to a motion to postpone, or to a motion to pro-
ceed to the consideration of other business. A motion to 
reconsider the vote by which the motion is agreed to or 
disagreed to shall not be in order. If a motion to proceed 
to the consideration of the bill is agreed to, the respective 
House shall immediately proceed to consideration of the 
bill without intervening motion, order, or other business, 
and the bill shall remain the unfinished business of the 
respective House until disposed of. 
(2) Debate on the bill, and on all debatable motions 
and appeals in connection therewith, shall be limited to 
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not more than 2 hours, which shall be divided equally be-
tween those favoring and those opposing the bill. An 
amendment to the bill is not in order. A motion further 
to limit debate is in order and not debatable. A motion 
to postpone, or a motion to proceed to the consideration 
of other business, or a motion to recommit the bill is not 
in order. A motion to reconsider the vote by which the 
bill is agreed to or disagreed to is not in order. 
(3) Immediately following the conclusion of the de-
bate on a bill described in subsection (a) and a single 
quorum call at the conclusion of the debate if requested 
in accordance with the rules of the appropriate House, the 
vote on final passage of the bill shall occur. 
(4) Appeals from the decisions of the Chair relating 
to the application of the rules of the Senate or the House 
of Representatives, as the case may be, to the procedure 
relating to a bill described in subsection (a) shall be de-
cided without debate. 
(e) CONSIDERATION BY OTHER HOUSE.—(1) If, be-
fore the passage by one House of a bill of that House de-
scribed in subsection (a), that House receives from the 
other House a bill described in subsection (a), then the 
following procedures shall apply: 
(A) The bill of the other House shall not be re-
ferred to a committee and may not be considered in 
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the House receiving it except in the case of final 
passage as provided in subparagraph (B)(ii). 
(B) With respect to a bill described in sub-
section (a) of the House receiving the bill— 
(i) the procedure in that House shall be 
the same as if no bill had been received from 
the other House; but 
(ii) the vote on final passage shall be on 
the bill of the other House. 
(2) Upon disposition of the bill received from the 
other House, it shall no longer be in order to consider the 
bill that originated in the receiving House. 
(f) COMPUTATION OF PERIOD.—For purposes of sub-
sections (a) and (c), the days on which either House of 
Congress is not in session because of an adjournment of 
more than three days to a day certain shall be excluded 
in the computation of a period. 
(g) RULES OF THE SENATE AND HOUSE.—This sec-
tion is enacted by Congress— 
(1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of 
the Senate and House of Representatives, respec-
tively, and as such it is deemed a part of the rules 
of each House, respectively, but applicable only with 
respect to the procedure to be followed in that 
House in the case of a bill described in subsection 
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(a), and it supersedes other rules only to the extent 
that it is inconsistent with such rules; and 
(2) with full recognition of the constitutional 
right of either House to change the rules (so far as 
relating to the procedure of that House) at any time, 
in the same manner, and to the same extent as in 
the case of any other rule of that House. 
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