I 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2686 
To amend the Balanced Budget and Emergency Control Act of 1985 to 
extend the pay-as-you-go provisions through fiscal year 2012. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 12, 2007 
Mr. HILL (for himself, Mr. MOORE of Kansas, Mr. SHULER, Mr. MELANCON, 
Mr. PATRICK J. MURPHY of Pennsylvania, Mr. BARROW, Mr. MATHE-
SON, Mr. TANNER, Mr. BOYD of Florida, and Mr. ROSS) introduced the 
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Budget, 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 provi-
sions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To amend the Balanced Budget and Emergency Control Act 
of 1985 to extend the pay-as-you-go provisions through 
fiscal year 2012. 
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 ‘‘Budget Enforcement 
and Accountability Act of 2007’’. 
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SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF PAY-AS-YOU-GO REQUIREMENT. 
(a) PURPOSE.—Section 252(a) of the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 is 
amended by striking ‘‘2002’’ and inserting ‘‘2012’’. 
(b) SEQUESTRATION.—Section 252(b)(1) of the Bal-
anced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 
is amended by striking ‘‘2002’’ and inserting ‘‘2012’’. 
(c) EXPIRATION.—Section 275(b) of the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 is 
amended by striking ‘‘2006’’ and inserting ‘‘2016’’. 
(d) BROADENING OF SEQUESTRATION BASE.—The 
Directors of the Congressional Budget Office and of the 
Office of Management and Budget shall each submit, not 
later than 6 months after the date of enactment of this 
Act, a report to the Committee on the Budget of the 
House of Representatives that addresses the issue of how 
to broaden the pay-as-you-go sequestration base and make 
it more fair and equitable. 
SEC. 3. BUDGET EVASION POINTS OF ORDER. 
(a) IN GENERAL.— 
(1) PAY-AS-YOU-GO.—It shall not be in order in 
the House of Representatives or the Senate to con-
sider any bill or joint resolution, or conference re-
port thereon or amendment thereto, or motion that 
waives or suspends the enforcement of section 252 
of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Con-
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trol Act of 1985 or otherwise would alter the bal-
ances of the pay-as-you-go scorecard under that sec-
tion. 
(2) DIRECTED
SCORING.—It shall not be in 
order in the House of Representatives or the Senate 
to consider any direct spending or receipts legisla-
tion, or conference report thereon or amendment 
thereto, or motion that would affect its treatment 
under such section 252. 
(b) WAIVER AND APPEAL IN THE SENATE.—This 
section may be waived or suspended in the Senate only 
by an affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members, duly 
chosen and sworn. An affirmative vote of three-fifths of 
the Members of the Senate, duly chosen and sworn, shall 
be required in the Senate to sustain an appeal of the rul-
ing of the Chair on a point of order raised under this sec-
tion. 
(c) ENFORCEMENT IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTA-
TIVES.—It shall not be in order in the House of Rep-
resentatives to consider a rule or order that waives the 
application of subsection (a). 
(d) DISPOSITION
OF POINTS
OF ORDER
IN
THE 
HOUSE.—In the House of Representatives, as disposition 
of a point of order under subsection (a), the Chair shall 
put the question of consideration with respect to the prop-
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osition that is the subject of the point of order. A question 
of consideration under this section shall be debatable for 
10 minutes by the Member initiating the point of order 
and for 10 minutes by an opponent of the point of order, 
but shall otherwise be decided without intervening motion 
except one that the House adjourn or that the Committee 
of the Whole rise, as the case may be. 
(e) EFFECT ON AMENDMENT IN ORDER AS ORIGINAL 
TEXT IN THE HOUSE.—The disposition of the question 
of consideration under this section with respect to a bill 
or joint resolution shall be considered also to determine 
the question of consideration under this subsection with 
respect to an amendment made in order as original text. 
SEC. 4. EXERCISE OF RULEMAKING POWERS. 
The provisions of section 3 are enacted by Con-
gress— 
(1) as an exercise of the rulemaking powers of 
the House of Representatives and the Senate, and as 
such they shall be considered as part of the rules of 
the House of Representatives and the Senate, re-
spectively, and such rules shall supersede other rules 
only to the extent that they are inconsistent there-
with; and 
(2) with full recognition of the constitutional 
right of the House of Representatives and the Sen-
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ate to change such rules at anytime, in the same 
manner, and to the same extent as in the case of 
any other rule of the House of Representatives or 
the Senate, respectively. 
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