‘‘(2) an adjusted allocation for the committee
that is reduced by the reductions in new budget out-
lays and new budget authority made under para-
graph (1).’’.
(c) CBO TRACKING.—Section 202 of the Congres-
sional Budget Act of 1974 is amended by adding at the
end the following new subsection:
‘‘(i) SCOREKEEPING
ASSISTANCE.—To facilitate
compliance by the Committees on Appropriations with sec-
tions 302(e)(2) and 602(f), the Office shall score all gen-
eral appropriation measures as passed the House of Rep-
resentatives and as passed the Senate and have such
scorecard published in the Congressional Record.’’.
(d) ADJUSTMENT
OF DISCRETIONARY SPENDING
LIMITS.—Section 601(a)(2) of the Congressional Budget
Act of 1974 is amended by inserting before the period at
the end the following: ‘‘and by the amounts of any adjust-
ments pursuant to section 602(f)(2)(B) and section
602(g)(2)’’.
SEC. 3. PROHIBITION OF PROXY VOTING IN COMMITTEES.
Clause 2(f) of rule XI of the Rules of the House of
Representatives is amended to read as follows:
‘‘(f) No vote by any member of any committee or sub-
committee with respect to any measure or matter may be
cast by proxy.’’.
SEC. 4. OPEN COMMITTEE MEETINGS.
Rule XI of the Rules of the House of Representatives
is amended—
(1) in the first sentence of clause 2(g)(1), by in-
serting ‘‘because disclosure of matter to be consid-
ered would endanger the national security or would
tend to defame, degrade, or incriminate any person’’
after ‘‘public’’ the second place it appears;
(2) in clause 3(d), by striking ‘‘is a privilege
made available by the House and’’; and
(3) by striking clause 3(e) and inserting the fol-
lowing:
‘‘(e) Whenever a hearing or meeting conducted by
any committee of the House is open to the public, those
proceedings shall be open to television broadcast, radio
broadcast, and still photography, or by any of such meth-
ods of coverage. No committee or subcommittee chairman
may limit the number of television or still cameras below
2 representatives from each medium.’’.
SEC. 5. APPLICATION OF FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT
TO THE CONGRESS.
The Congress, and the instrumentalities of Congress,
shall be subject to section 552 of title 5, United States
Code (commonly referred to as the ‘‘Freedom of Informa-
tion Act’’) to the same extent that Executive agencies (as
defined by section 105 of title 5, United States Code) are
subject to such section 552.
SEC. 6. MISCELLANEOUS AMENDMENTS TO THE RULES OF
THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
(a) 5-DAY WAITING PERIOD.—(1) Clause 2(l)(6) of
rule XI of the Rules of the House of Representatives is
amended by striking ‘‘third’’ and inserting ‘‘fifth’’.
(2) The first sentence of clause 2(a) of rule XXVIII
of the Rules of the House of Representatives is amended
by striking ‘‘third’’ and inserting ‘‘fifth’’.
(b) TWO-THIRDS REQUIRED TO APPROVE RESTRIC-
TIVE RULES.—Clause 4 of rule XI of the Rules of the
House of Representatives is amended by adding at the end
the following new paragraph:
‘‘(e) It shall not be in order to consider any resolution
reported from the Committee on Rules providing for the
consideration of any bill or resolution otherwise subject to
amendment under House Rules if that resolution limits
the right of Members to offer germane amendments to
such bill, unless that resolution is agreed to by the affirm-
ative vote of at least two-thirds of the Members voting,
a quorum being present.’’.
(c) BAN ON KING-OF-THE-HILL RULES.—The last
sentence of clause 4(b) of rule XI of the Rules of the
House of Representatives is amended by inserting before
the period the following: ‘‘; nor shall it report any rule
for the consideration of any measure commonly known as
a ‘king-of-the-hill’ rule’’.
(d) BAN ON SELF-EXECUTING RULES.—Clause 4 of
rule XI of the Rules of the House of Representatives (as
amended by subsection (b)) is amended by adding at the
end the following new paragraph:
‘‘(f) It shall not be in order to consider any order
of business resolution reported from the Committee on
Rules which provides that, upon the adoption of such reso-
lution, the House shall be considered to have automatically
adopted a motion (other than for the previous question),
amendment, or resolution, or to have passed a bill, joint
resolution, or conference report thereon.’’.
(e) REPEAL OF RULE XLIX.—Rule XLIX of the
Rules of the House of Representatives is repealed.
(f) CONFERENCE COMMITTEES.—(1) Clause 3 of rule
XXVIII of the Rules of the House of Representatives is
amended by adding at the end the following new sentence:
‘‘Their report shall not fund any program, project, or ac-
tivity at a level higher than that contained in the bill or
resolution as passed the House or as passed the Senate
and committed to the conference committee or fund any
program, project, or activity not contained in that bill or
resolution as passed the House or as passed the Senate.’’.
(2) Rule XXVIII of the Rules of the House of Rep-
resentatives is amended by adding at the end the following
new clause:
‘‘7. It shall not be in order in the House to consider
a conference report if that report would violate any motion
to instruct conferees that the House agreed to.’’.
SEC. 7. BUDGET ENFORCEMENT.
(a) PRESIDENT’S BUDGET.—Paragraph (5) of sec-
tion 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code, is amended
to read as follows:
‘‘(5) except as provided in subsection (b) of this
section—
‘‘(A) estimated expenditures and proposed
appropriations 
for 
each 
function 
and
subfunction in the current fiscal year;
‘‘(B) estimated expenditures and proposed
appropriations the President decides are nec-
essary to support the Government for each
function and subfunction in the fiscal year for
which the budget is submitted; and
‘‘(C) a comparison of levels of estimated
expenditures and proposed appropriations for
each function and subfunction in the current
fiscal year and the fiscal year for which the
budget is submitted, along with the proposed
increase or decrease of spending in percentage
terms for each function and subfunction;’’.
(b) CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET.—Section 301(e) of
the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 is amended by—
(1) inserting after the second sentence the fol-
lowing: ‘‘The starting point for any deliberations in
the Committee on the Budget of each House on the
concurrent resolution on the budget for the next fis-
cal year shall be the estimated level of outlays for
the current year in each function and subfunction.
Any increases or decreases in the Congressional
budget for the next fiscal year shall be from such es-
timated levels.’’;
(2) striking paragraphs (2) and (3) and insert-
ing the following:
‘‘(2) a comparison of levels for the current fis-
cal year with proposed spending for the subsequent
fiscal years along with the proposed increase or de-
crease of spending in percentage terms for each
function and subfunction;
‘‘(3) information, data, and comparisons indi-
cating the manner in which, and the basis on which,
the committee determined each of the matters set
forth in the concurrent resolution, including infor-
mation on outlays for the current fiscal year and the
decisions reached to set funding for the subsequent
fiscal years;’’;
(3) inserting ‘‘and’’ after the semicolon in para-
graph (7);
(4) striking paragraph (8); and
(5) redesignating paragraph (9) as paragraph
(8).
(c) CBO REPORT TO BUDGET COMMITTEES.—The
first sentence of section 202(f)(1) of the Congressional
Budget Act of 1974 is amended to read as follows: ‘‘On
or before February 15 of each year, the Director shall sub-
mit to the Committees on the Budget of the House of Rep-
resentatives and the Senate a report, for the fiscal year
commencing on October 1 of that year, with respect to
fiscal policy, including (A) estimated budget outlays in all
functions and subfunctions for appropriated accounts for
the current fiscal year and estimated budget outlays under
current law for all entitlement programs for the next fiscal
year, (B) alternative levels of total revenues, total new
budget authority, and total outlays (including related sur-
pluses and deficits), and (C) the levels of tax expenditures
under existing law, taking into account projected economic
factors and any changes in such levels based on proposals
in the budget submitted by the President for such fiscal
year.’’.
SEC. 8. ECONOMIC AND EMPLOYMENT IMPACT STATE-
MENTS.
(a) PREPARATION.—The Comptroller General of the
United States shall prepare an economic and employment
impact statement, as described in subsection (b), to ac-
company each bill, resolution, or conference report re-
ported by any committee of the House of Representatives
or the Senate or considered on the floor of either House.
(b) CONTENTS.—Except as provided in subsection
(c), the economic and employment impact statement re-
quired by subsection (a) shall—
(1) state the extent to which enactment of the
bill, resolution, or conference report would result in
increased costs to the private sector, individuals, or
State and local governments; and
(2) include, at a minimum, a detailed assess-
ment of the annual impact of the bill, resolution, or
conference report (projected annually over a 5-year
period from its effective date, and, to the extent fea-
sible, expressed in each case in monetary terms)
on—
(A) costs to United States consumers;
(B) costs to United States business;
(C) national employment;
(D) the ability of United States industries
to compete internationally;
(E) affected State and local governments,
fiscal and otherwise;
(F) outlays and revenues by the Federal
Government as compared to outlays and reve-
nues for the same activity in the current fiscal
year (as reported by the Congressional Budget
Office); and
(G) impact on Gross Domestic Product.
(c) EXCEPTION.—The economic and employment im-
pact statement required by subsection (a) may consist of
a brief summary assessment in lieu of the detailed assess-
ment set forth in subsection (b) if preliminary analysis in-
dicates that the aggregate effect of the bill, resolution, or
conference report as measured by the criteria set forth in
subparagraphs (A) through (G) of subsection (b) is less
than $100,000 or 1,000 jobs in national employment.
(d) STATEMENT WITH ALL LEGISLATION.—The eco-
nomic and employment impact statement required by this
section shall accompany each bill, resolution, or conference
report before such bill, resolution, or conference report
may be reported or otherwise considered on the floor of
either House.
(e) POINT OF ORDER.—
(1) RULE.—It shall not be in order in either
the House of Representatives or the Senate to con-
sider on the floor any bill, resolution, or conference
report, whether or not reported by any committee of
the House of Representatives or the Senate, unless
that bill, resolution, or conference report includes
the economic and employment impact statement re-
quired by this section.
(2) WAIVER.—A point of order made under this
subsection may be waived in the Senate by a two-
thirds affirmative vote of Senators, duly chosen and
sworn, and in the House of Representatives by a
two-thirds affirmative vote of Members, duly chosen
and sworn.
(f) EXECUTIVE REGULATIONS.—Each regulation and
proposed regulation promulgated by a Federal department
or executive agency shall be accompanied by an economic
and employment impact statement prepared, in accord-
ance with subsection (b), by the department or agency pro-
mulgating the regulation or proposed regulation. The eco-
nomic and employment impact statement shall be pub-
lished in the Federal Register together with such regula-
tion or proposed regulation.
(g) PROVISION
FOR NATIONAL SECURITY EMER-
GENCY WAIVER.—
(1) CONGRESSIONAL ECONOMIC IMPACT STATE-
MENTS.—The Congress may waive the requirements
of subsections (a) through (d) at any time in which
a declaration of war is in effect, or in response to
a national security emergency at the request of the
President.
(2) EXECUTIVE REGULATIONS.—The President
may waive the requirements of subsection (f) at any
time in which a declaration of war is in effect, or in
response to a national security emergency as deter-
mined by the President in consultation with Con-
gress.
(h) REPEAL OF SENATE RULE.—Paragraph 11 of
rule XXVI of the Standing Rules of the Senate is repealed.
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