which the leaders may introduce the message, any 
Member of that House may introduce the bill. 
‘‘(3) CONSIDERATION IN THE HOUSE OF REP-
RESENTATIVES.— 
‘‘(A) REFERRAL
AND
REPORTING.—(i) 
Each committee of referral of the House of 
Representatives shall report an approval bill 
without amendment not later than the fifth day 
after the date of its referral. If the committee 
fails to report the bill within that period or the 
House of Representatives has adopted a concur-
rent resolution providing for adjournment sine 
die at the end of a Congress, such committee 
shall be automatically discharged from further 
consideration of the bill and it shall be placed 
on the appropriate calendar. 
‘‘(ii) As soon as practicable after such ap-
proval bill is referred to the Committee on Ap-
propriations, CBO shall prepare, and submit to 
the Committees on Appropriations and the 
Committees on the Budget of the House of 
Representatives and the Senate, an estimate of 
the reduction in budget authority which would 
result from the enactment of that bill. 
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‘‘(B) PROCEEDING TO CONSIDERATION.— 
Within three days after an approval bill is re-
ported by or discharged from the Committee on 
Appropriations of the House of Representatives 
or if the House has adopted a concurrent reso-
lution providing for adjournment sine die at the 
end of a Congress, it shall be in order for any 
Member to announce his intention to move to 
proceed to consider the approval bill in the 
House. The motion to proceed shall be in order 
only during a time designated by the Speaker 
within the legislative schedule for the next two 
days or the next day on which the House is in 
session. Such a motion shall not be in order 
after the House of Representatives has disposed 
of a prior motion to proceed with respect to 
that approval bill. The previous question shall 
be considered as ordered on the motion to pro-
ceed without intervening motion. A motion to 
reconsider the vote by which the motion to pro-
ceed is disposed of shall not be in order. 
‘‘(C) HOUSE CONSIDERATION.—If the mo-
tion to proceed is agreed to, the House shall 
immediately proceed to consider the approval 
bill in the House without intervening motion, 
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order, or other business, and the approval bill 
shall remain the unfinished business of the 
House until disposed of. The approval bill shall 
be considered as read. All points of order 
against the approval bill or its consideration are 
waived. The previous question shall be consid-
ered as ordered on an approval bill to its pas-
sage, without intervening motion, except 4 
hours of debate equally divided and controlled 
by the proponent and an opponent and one mo-
tion to further limit debate on the bill. A mo-
tion to reconsider the vote on passage of the bill 
shall not be in order. 
‘‘(4) CONSIDERATION IN THE SENATE.— 
‘‘(A) REFERRAL.—An approval bill re-
ceived in the Senate shall be referred to the 
Committee on Appropriations. 
‘‘(B) COMMITTEE
ACTION.—The Com-
mittee on Appropriations shall report without 
amendment the bill referred to it under this 
subsection not later than 5 days after the refer-
ral. The committee may order the bill reported 
favorably, unfavorably, or without recommenda-
tion. If the Committee on Appropriations has 
not reported the bill by the end of the 5-day pe-
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riod, the Committee shall be automatically dis-
charged from further consideration of the bill 
and it shall be placed on the appropriate cal-
endar. 
‘‘(C) MOTION TO PROCEED.—On the fol-
lowing day, 3 subsequent days, or, if the Senate 
is not in session during that period, the next 
day of session, it shall be in order for any Sen-
ator to move to proceed to consider the bill in 
the Senate. The motion shall be decided without 
debate and the motion to reconsider shall be 
deemed to have been laid on the table. Such a 
motion shall not be in order after the Senate 
has disposed of a prior motion to proceed with 
respect to that approval bill. 
‘‘(D) CONSIDERATION.—If a motion to 
proceed to the consideration of the approval bill 
is agreed to, the Senate shall immediately pro-
ceed to consideration of the approval bill with-
out intervening motion, order, or other busi-
ness, and the approval bill shall remain the un-
finished business of the Senate until disposed 
of. Consideration on the bill in the Senate 
under this subsection, and all debatable motions 
and appeals in connection therewith, shall not 
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exceed 10 hours, equally divided and controlled 
in the usual form. All points of order against 
the approval bill or its consideration are waived. 
Consideration in the Senate on any debatable 
motion or appeal in connection with the ap-
proval bill shall be limited to not more than 1 
hour, to be equally divided and controlled in the 
usual form. A motion to postpone, or a motion 
to proceed to the consideration of other busi-
ness, or a motion to recommit the approval bill 
is not in order. A motion to reconsider the vote 
by which the approval bill is agreed to or dis-
agreed to is not in order. 
‘‘(b) AMENDMENTS PROHIBITED.—No amendment to 
an approval bill considered under this section shall be in 
order in either the Senate or the House of Representa-
tives. 
‘‘TREATMENT OF RESCISSIONS 
‘‘SEC. 1014. Rescissions proposed by the President 
under this part shall take effect only upon enactment of 
the applicable approval bill. If an approval bill is not en-
acted into law within 45 days from the enactment of the 
appropriation measure to which the approval bill relates, 
then the approval bill shall not be eligible for expedited 
consideration under the provisions of this Act. 
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‘‘DEFINITIONS 
‘‘SEC. 1015. As used in this part: 
‘‘(1) APPROPRIATION
MEASURE.—The term 
‘appropriation measure’ means an Act referred to in 
section 105 of title 1, United States Code, including 
any general or special appropriation Act, or any Act 
making supplemental, deficiency, or continuing ap-
propriations, that has been enacted into law pursu-
ant to article I, section 7, of the Constitution of the 
United States. 
‘‘(2) APPROVAL BILL.—The term ‘approval bill’ 
means a bill which only approves rescissions of fund-
ing in a special message transmitted by the Presi-
dent under this part and— 
‘‘(A) the title of which is as follows: ‘A bill 
approving the proposed rescissions transmitted 
by the President on lll’, the blank space 
being filled in with the date of transmission of 
the relevant special message and the public law 
number to which the message relates; and 
‘‘(B) which provides only the following 
after the enacting clause: ‘That the Congress 
approves the proposed rescissions lll’, the 
blank space being filled in with the list of the 
rescissions contained in the President’s special 
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