(ii) The Commission may increase the 
member of its personnel in excess of the limita-
tion under clause (i), 15 days after submitting 
notification of such increase to the Committee 
on Governmental Affairs of the Senate and the 
Committee on Government Reform of the 
House of Representatives. 
(G) LIMITATION ON FEDERAL OFFICER.—
No member of a Federal agency and no em-
ployee of a Federal agency may serve as a 
member of the Commission or as a paid mem-
ber of its staff. 
(6) ASSISTANCE.—
(A) IN GENERAL.—The Comptroller Gen-
eral of the United States may provide assist-
ance, including the detailing of employees, to 
the Commission in accordance with an agree-
ment entered into with the Commission. 
(B) 
CONSULTATION.—The 
Commission 
and the Comptroller General of the United 
States shall consult with the Committee on 
Governmental Affairs of the Senate and the 
Committee on Government Reform of the 
House of Representatives on the agreement re-
ferred to under subparagraph (A) before enter-
ing into such agreement. 
(k) OTHER AUTHORITY.—
(1) EXPERTS AND CONSULTANTS.—The Com-
mission may procure by contract, to the extent funds 
are available, the temporary or intermittent services 
of experts or consultants pursuant to section 3109 
of title 5, United States Code. 
(2) LEASING.—The Commission may lease 
space and acquire personal property to the extent 
that funds are available. 
(l) FUNDING.—
(1) COMMISSION.—There are authorized to be 
appropriated to the Commission such funds as are 
necessary to carry out its duties under this Act. 
(2) COMPTROLLER GENERAL.—There are au-
thorized to be appropriated to the Comptroller Gen-
eral of the United States such funds as are nec-
essary to carry out the Comptroller General’s duties 
under subsection (k)(5) and section 6(b)(5). 
(m) TERMINATION.—The Commission shall termi-
nate on January 1, 2006. 
SEC. 6. PROCEDURE FOR MAKING RECOMMENDATIONS TO 
TERMINATE CORPORATE SUBSIDIES. 
(a) AGENCY PLAN.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—The head of each Federal 
department or agency shall include in the documents 
submitted in support of the budget of the agency for 
fiscal year 2005 a list identifying all programs and 
laws administered by that department or agency 
that the head of the department or agency deter-
mines provide inequitable Federal subsidies.
(2) CONTENTS.—Such list shall include—
(A) a detailed description of each program 
or law in question; 
(B) a statement identifying and detailing 
the extent to which each payment, benefit, serv-
ice, or tax advantage under such program or 
law is an inequitable Federal subsidy; 
(C) a statement summarizing the legisla-
tive history and purpose of such payment, ben-
efit, service, or tax advantage, and the laws or 
policies directly or indirectly giving rise to the 
need for such programs or law; and 
(D) a recommendation to the Commission 
regarding the termination, modification, or re-
tention of each inequitable Federal subsidy 
identified in the list.
(b) REVIEW BY THE COMMISSION.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—At any time after the sub-
mission of the budget documents to the Congress, 
the Commission shall conduct public hearings on the 
termination, modification, or retention of inequitable 
Federal subsidies, including the recommendations in-
cluded in the lists required under subsection (a). 
(2) TESTIMONY UNDER OATH.—All testimony 
before the Commission at a public hearing conducted 
under this paragraph shall be presented under oath. 
(c) REPORT AND RECOMMENDATIONS OF COMMIS-
SION.—
(1) REPORT TO CONGRESS.—
(A) REQUIREMENT.—No later than March 
31, 2005, the Commission shall submit a report 
to the Congress containing the Commission’s 
findings and recommendations for termination, 
modification, or retention of each of the inequi-
table Federal subsidies reviewed by the Com-
mission. 
(B) CONTENTS.—Such findings and rec-
ommendations shall specify—
(i) all actions, circumstances, and con-
siderations relating to or bearing upon the 
recommendations; and
(ii) to the maximum extent prac-
ticable, the estimated effect of the rec-
ommendations upon the policies, laws, and
programs directly or indirectly affected by 
the recommendations. 
(C) SUPERMAJORITY REQUIREMENT.—The 
Commission may not include a recommendation 
in the report unless inclusion of the rec-
ommendation is approved by at least 6 mem-
bers of the Commission. 
(2) INFORMATION AND JUSTIFICATIONS.—The 
Commission shall include in its report information 
specifying—
(A) the reasons and justifications for the 
recommendations of the Commission; 
(B) to the maximum extent practicable, 
the estimated fiscal, economic, and budgetary 
impact of accepting its recommendations; 
(C) the amount of the projected savings re-
sulting from each it its recommendations; 
(D) all actions, circumstances, and consid-
erations relating to or bearing upon the rec-
ommendations and to the maximum extent 
practicable, the estimated effect of the rec-
ommendations upon the policies, laws and pro-
grams directly or indirectly affected by the rec-
ommendations; and 
(E) the specific changes in Federal stat-
utes necessary to implement the recommenda-
tions, including citation of the relevant provi-
sions of existing law.
(3) SUBMISSION
TO
CONGRESS.—The report 
submitted to the Congress under this subsection 
shall be submitted to the Senate and the House of 
Representatives on the same day, and shall be deliv-
ered to the Secretary of the Senate if the Senate is 
not in session, and to the Clerk of the House of the 
Representatives if the House is not in session. 
(4) FEDERAL
REGISTER.—The report sub-
mitted under this subsection shall be printed in the 
first issue of the Federal Register after such submis-
sion. 
(5) CHANGES
IN
AGENCY
OR
DEPARTMENT 
RECOMMENDATIONS.—
(A) IN GENERAL.—Subject to the deadline 
in paragraph (1) and to subparagraphs (B) and 
(C) of this paragraph, in making its rec-
ommendations, the Commission may make 
changes in any of the recommendations made 
by a department or agency if the Commission
determines that such department or agency, in 
treating any matter as an inequitable Federal 
subsidy, deviated substantially from the provi-
sions of section 4. 
(B) LIMITATION.—The Commission may 
make a change in the recommendations made 
by a department or agency, only if the Commis-
sion—
(i) makes the determination required 
under subparagraph (B); and 
(ii) conducts a public hearing on the 
Commission’s proposed changes. 
(C) APPLICATION
OF
LIMITATION.—Sub-
paragraph (B) shall apply only to a change by 
the Commission in a department or agency rec-
ommendation that would—
(i) add or delete a payment, benefit, 
service, or tax advantage to or from, re-
spectively, the list recommended for termi-
nation; 
(ii) add or delete a payment, benefit, 
service, or tax advantage to or from, re-
spectively, the list recommended for modi-
fication; or
(iii) increase or decrease the extent of 
a recommendation to modify a payment, 
benefit, service, or tax advantage included 
in 
a 
department’s 
or 
agency’s 
rec-
ommendation. 
(D) 
JUSTIFICATION.—The 
Commission 
shall explain and justify in the report submitted 
to the Congress under this subsection any rec-
ommendation made by the Commission that is 
different from a recommendation made by an 
agency under subsection (a). 
(6) PROVISION OF INFORMATION TO MEMBERS 
OF CONGRESS.—After March 31, 2005, the Commis-
sion shall, upon request, promptly provide to any 
Member of Congress the information used by the 
Commission in making its recommendations.
(7) 
COMPTROLLER
GENERAL.—The 
Comp-
troller General of the United States shall—
(A) assist the Commission, to the extent 
requested, in the Commission’s review and anal-
ysis of the lists, statements, and recommenda-
tions made by departments and agencies under 
subsection (a); and 
(B) no later than 60 days after April 1, 
2004, or the public release of the President’s
budget documents in 2004, whichever is earlier, 
submit to the Congress and to the Commission 
a report containing a detailed analysis of the 
list, statements, and recommendations of each 
department or agency. 
SEC. 7. CONGRESSIONAL ACTION ON COMMISSION REC-
OMMENDATIONS. 
It is the sense of the Congress that, following submis-
sion of the report of the Corporate Subsidy Reform Com-
mission under section 6, the House of Representatives and 
the Senate should promptly consider legislation that would 
enact changes in Federal statutes necessary to implement 
the recommendations of the Commission.
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