I 
110TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6105 
To amend the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 
to require that concurrent resolutions on the budget limit the growth 
of Federal spending to the mean of annual percentage growth of wages 
and gross domestic product (GDP) in the United States, and for other 
purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 21, 2008 
Mr. MCCOTTER (for himself, Mr. JONES of North Carolina, and Mr. CARTER) 
introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committees 
on Rules, Budget, and Ways and Means, 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 Congressional Budget and Impoundment Con-
trol Act of 1974 to require that concurrent resolutions 
on the budget limit the growth of Federal spending to 
the mean of annual percentage growth of wages and 
gross domestic product (GDP) in the United States, 
and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Fiscal Integrity 
through Transparency (FIT) Act of 2008’’. 
TITLE 
I—CONSTRAINING 
THE 
GROWTH OF THE FEDERAL 
GOVERNMENT 
SEC. 101. CONSTRAINING GROWTH. 
(a) CONSTRAINING GROWTH.—Title III of the Con-
gressional Budget Act of 1974 is amended by adding at 
the end the following new section: 
‘‘CONSTRAINING THE GROWTH OF THE FEDERAL 
GOVERNMENT 
‘‘SEC. 316. (a) POINT OF ORDER.—It shall not be 
in order in the House of Representatives or the Senate 
to consider any concurrent resolution on the budget for 
any fiscal year if the percentage increase for the projected 
total outlays for such fiscal year compared to the projected 
total outlays for the preceding fiscal year set forth in the 
most recently agreed to concurrent resolution on the budg-
et exceeds the allowable growth percentage. 
‘‘(b) ALLOWABLE GROWTH PERCENTAGE.—As used 
in subsection (a), the term ‘allowable growth percentage’ 
for the applicable fiscal year refers to the mean of the 
annual percentage growth of mean earnings of full-time, 
year-round workers; compensation of employees; and gross 
domestic product (GDP) for the United States for the 
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most recent calendar year for which such data may be ob-
tained from the U.S. Census Bureau and the Bureau of 
Economic Analysis (BEA) of the Department of Com-
merce compared to the immediately preceding calendar 
year before the concurrent resolution on the budget for 
the applicable fiscal year is reported by the Committee on 
the Budget of the House of Representatives or Senate, as 
the case may be. 
‘‘(c) SUPER MAJORITY REQUIRED FOR WAIVER.— 
Subsection (a) may be waived or suspended in the House 
of Representatives or the Senate by a two-thirds vote of 
its Members voting, a quorum being present.’’. 
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—The table of con-
tents set forth in section 1(b) of the Congressional Budget 
and Impoundment Act of 1974 is amended by adding after 
the item relating to section 315 the following new item: 
‘‘Sec. 316. Constraining the Growth of the Federal Government.’’. 
TITLE II—EFFICIENCY AND RE-
SPONSIBILITY 
FROM 
THE 
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 
SEC. 201. ANNUAL REPORTS BY FEDERAL DEPARTMENTS 
AND AGENCIES TO GOVERNMENT ACCOUNT-
ABILITY OFFICE. 
(a) REPORT REQUIREMENT.—Each Federal depart-
ment and agency annually shall submit to the Comptroller 
General a report on the total operating costs of the depart-
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ment or agency for the year covered by the report, with 
a separate statement containing details on waste, fraud, 
and abuse during such year. 
(b) AUDIT BY GAO.—Each year the Comptroller 
General shall randomly select 10 percent of the reports 
submitted under subsection (a) and audit the reports. 
(c) INTELLIGENCE REPORT REQUIREMENT.—Each 
intelligence department and agency of the Federal Govern-
ment, and each intelligence-related division within a de-
partment or agency, shall submit to the Select Committee 
on Intelligence of the House of Representatives the total 
operating costs of the agency, department, or division for 
the year covered by the report, with a separate statement 
containing details on waste, fraud, and abuse during such 
year. 
(d) FIRST REPORTS.—The first reports under this 
section shall be submitted not later than one year after 
the date of the enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 202. ANNUAL REPORT BY COMPTROLLER GENERAL. 
(a) ANNUAL GAO REPORT ON REPORTS OF FED-
ERAL DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES.—The Comptroller 
General shall submit to Congress an annual report on the 
results of the reports submitted under section 201(a). 
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(b) FIRST REPORT.—The first report under this sec-
tion shall be submitted not later than 18 months after the 
date of the enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 203. PLAN FOR REDUCTION OF OPERATIONAL COSTS 
OF FEDERAL DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES. 
(a) PLAN REQUIREMENT.—Not later than one year 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, each Federal 
department or agency shall design a plan to reduce its 
operational costs from $.36 of every $1.00 appropriated 
to the department or agency to $.15 of every $1.00 (or 
reduce their operational costs by 41.67 percent) appro-
priated to the department or agency through the use of 
new technologies and standard management practices. 
(b) IMPLEMENTATION OF PLAN.—Not later than 10 
years after the date of the enactment of this Act, each 
Federal department or agency shall implement the plan 
for the department or agency developed under subsection 
(a). 
(c) ANNUAL PROGRESS REPORTS.—Each Federal de-
partment or agency shall submit to Congress a report each 
year detailing the progress of the department or agency 
in implementing the plan for the department or agency 
developed under subsection (a). 
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SEC. 204. INFORMING TAXPAYERS. 
(a) STATEMENT TO APPEAR ON TAX RETURNS.— 
The Secretary of the Treasury shall include, on each form 
for making the return of tax imposed under chapter 1 of 
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, a statement of the 
aggregate dollar amount of waste, fraud, and abuse by all 
Federal departments and agencies for the most recent 
year for which the Secretary has received information 
under subsection (b). 
(b) 
DETERMINATION
OF
AGGREGATE
WASTE, 
FRAUD, AND ABUSE BY COMPTROLLER GENERAL.—The 
Comptroller General shall annually report to the Secretary 
of the Treasury the aggregate dollar amount of waste, 
fraud, and abuse by all Federal departments and agencies 
as determined by the Comptroller General on the basis of 
the reports submitted by Federal departments and agen-
cies under section 201. 
TITLE III—PROVIDING EARMARK 
TRANSPARENCY 
SEC. 301. EARMARK TRANSPARENCY. 
(a) EARMARK TRANSPARENCY.— 
Title III of the Congressional Budget Act of 
1974 as amended by section 101 is further amended 
by adding at the end the following new section: 
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‘‘EARMARK TRANSPARENCY 
‘‘SEC. 317. (a) IN GENERAL.—All requests for ear-
marks received by the Committee on Appropriations (or 
any subcommittee thereof) of the House of Representa-
tives or the Senate shall be posted by the applicable Com-
mittee on Appropriations (or subcommittee thereof) on its 
website at least 14 calendar days before the committee or 
subcommittee, as applicable, begins marking up the appli-
cable measure. Each such posting of an earmark shall in-
clude the name of the Member requesting the earmark, 
the cost of the earmark, and a justification of why the 
earmark is needed. 
‘‘(b) DEFINITION.—As used in subsection (a), the 
term ‘earmark’ means— 
‘‘(1) in the case of the House of Representa-
tives, ‘congressional earmark’ as such term is de-
fined by clause 9(d) of rule XXI of the Rules of the 
House of Representatives; and 
‘‘(2) in the case of the Senate, ‘congressionally 
directed spending item’ as such term is defined by 
clause 5 of rule XLIV of the Standing Rules of the 
Senate.’’. 
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