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(1) the levels of new budget authority, outlays, 
direct spending, new entitlement authority, revenues, 
deficits, and surpluses for a fiscal year or period of 
fiscal years shall be determined on the basis of esti-
mates made by the appropriate Committee on the 
Budget; and 
(2) such chairman may make any other nec-
essary adjustments to such levels to carry out this 
resolution. 
SEC. 308. BUDGET PROTECTION MANDATORY ACCOUNT. 
(a)(1) The chairman of the Committee on the Budget 
shall maintain an account to be known as the ‘‘Budget 
Protection Mandatory Account’’. The Account shall be di-
vided into entries corresponding to the allocations under 
section 302(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 
in the most recently adopted concurrent resolution on the 
budget, except that it shall not include the Committee on 
Appropriations. 
(2) Each entry shall consist only of amounts credited 
to it under subsection (b). No entry of a negative amount 
shall be made. 
(b)(1) Upon the engrossment of a House bill or joint 
resolution or a House amendment to a Senate bill or joint 
resolution (other than an appropriation bill), the chairman 
of the Committee on the Budget shall— 
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(A) credit the applicable entries of the Budget 
Protection Mandatory Account by the amounts spec-
ified in paragraph (2); and 
(B) reduce the applicable section 302(a) alloca-
tions by the amount specified in paragraph (2). 
(2) Each amount specified in paragraph (1)(A) shall 
be the net reduction in mandatory budget authority (either 
under current law or proposed by the bill or joint resolu-
tion under consideration) provided by each amendment 
that was adopted in the House to the bill or joint resolu-
tion. 
(c)(1) If an amendment includes a provision de-
scribed in paragraph (2), the chairman of the Committee 
on the Budget shall, upon the engrossment of a House 
bill or joint resolution or a House amendment to a Senate 
bill or joint resolution, other than an appropriation bill, 
reduce the level of total revenues set forth in the applicable 
concurrent resolution on the budget for the fiscal year or 
for the total of that first fiscal year and the ensuing fiscal 
years in an amount equal to the net reduction in manda-
tory authority (either under current law or proposed by 
a bill or joint resolution under consideration) provided by 
each amendment adopted by the House to the bill or joint 
resolution. Such adjustment shall be in addition to the ad-
justments described in subsection (b). 
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(2)(A) The provision specified in paragraph (1) is as 
follows: ‘‘The amount of mandatory budget authority re-
duced by this amendment may be used to offset a decrease 
in revenues.’’ 
(B) All points of order are waived against an amend-
ment including the text specified in subparagraph (A) pro-
vided the amendment is otherwise in order. 
(d) As used in this rule, the terms— 
(1) ‘‘appropriation bill’’ means any general or 
special appropriation bill, and any bill or joint reso-
lution making supplemental, deficiency, or con-
tinuing appropriations through the end of fiscal year 
2008 or any subsequent fiscal year, as the case may 
be; and 
(2) ‘‘mandatory budget authority’’ means any 
entitlement authority as defined by, and interpreted 
for purposes of, the Congressional Budget Act of 
1974. 
(e) During the consideration of any bill or joint reso-
lution, the chairman of the Committee on the Budget shall 
maintain a running tally, which shall be available to all 
Members, of the amendments adopted reflecting increases 
and decreases of budget authority in the bill or joint reso-
lution. 
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SEC. 309. BUDGET DISCRETIONARY ACCOUNTS. 
(a)(1) The chairman of the Committee on the Budget 
shall maintain an account to be known as the ‘‘Budget 
Protection Discretionary Account’’. The Account shall be 
divided into entries corresponding to the allocation to the 
Committee on Appropriations, and the committee’s sub-
allocations, under section 302(a) and 302(b) of the Con-
gressional Budget Act of 1974. 
(2) Each entry shall consist only of amounts credited 
to it under subsection (b). No entry of a negative amount 
shall be made. 
(b)(1) Upon the engrossment of a House appropria-
tions bill, the chairman of the Committee on the Budget 
shall— 
(A) credit the applicable entries of the Budget 
Protection Discretionary Account by the amounts 
specified in paragraph (2); and 
(B) reduce the applicable 302 (a) and (b) allo-
cations by the amount specified in paragraph (2). 
(2) Each amount specified in subparagraph (A) shall 
be the net reduction in discretionary budget authority pro-
vided by each amendment adopted by the House to the 
bill or joint resolution. 
(c)(1) If an amendment includes a provision de-
scribed in paragraph (2), the chairman of the Committee 
on the Budget shall, upon the engrossment of a House 
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appropriations bill, reduce the level of total revenues set 
forth in the applicable concurrent resolution on the budget 
for the fiscal year or for the total of that first fiscal year 
and the ensuing fiscal years in an amount equal to the 
net reduction in discretionary budget authority provided 
by each amendment that was adopted by the House to 
the bill or joint resolution. Such adjustment shall be in 
addition to the adjustments described in subsection (b). 
(2)(A) The provision specified in paragraph (1) is as 
follows: ‘‘The amount of discretionary budget authority re-
duced by this amendment may be used to offset a decrease 
in revenues.’’ 
(B) All points of order are waived against an amend-
ment including the text specified in subparagraph (A) pro-
vided the amendment is otherwise in order. 
(d) As used in this rule, the term ‘‘appropriation bill’’ 
means any general or special appropriation bill, and any 
bill or joint resolution making supplemental, deficiency, or 
continuing appropriations through the end of fiscal year 
2013 or any subsequent fiscal year, as the case may be. 
(e) During the consideration of any bill or joint reso-
lution, the chairman of the Committee on the Budget shall 
maintain a running tally, which shall be available to all 
Members, of the amendments adopted reflecting increases 
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and decreases of budget authority in the bill or joint reso-
lution. 
SEC. 310. TREATMENT OF RESCISSION BILLS IN THE 
HOUSE. 
(a)(1) By February 1, May 1, July 30, and November 
11 of each session of Congress, the majority leader shall 
introduce a rescission bill. If such bill is not introduced 
by that date, then whenever a rescission bill is introduced 
during a session on or after that date, a motion to dis-
charge the committee from its consideration shall be privi-
leged after the 10-legislative day period beginning on that 
date for the first 5 such bills. 
(2) It shall not be in order to offer any amendment 
to a rescission bill except an amendment that increases 
the amount of budget authority that such bill rescinds. 
(b) Whenever a rescission bill passes the House, the 
Committee on the Budget shall immediately reduce the ap-
plicable allocations under section 302(a) of the Congres-
sional Budget Act of 1974 by the total amount of reduc-
tions in budget authority and in outlays resulting from 
such rescission bill. 
(c)(1) It shall not be in order to consider any rescis-
sion bill, or conference report thereon or amendment 
thereto, unless— 
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SEC. 311. SENSE OF THE HOUSE REGARDING BASELINE 
REVENUE PROJECTIONS. 
For purposes of constructing its baseline revenue pro-
jections, the Congressional Budget Office should assume 
that any tax provision which is scheduled to expire under 
current law will be extended through the duration of any 
budget forecast by Congressional Budget Office so as to 
ensure that expiring tax provisions and expiring spending 
programs (other than direct appropriations) are treated 
in like fashion. 
SEC. 312. SENSE OF THE HOUSE REGARDING LONG-TERM 
BUDGET PROJECTIONS. 
For purposes of constructing its ten-year and long- 
term budget projection reports, the Congressional Budget 
Office should include an alternative scenario that assumes 
that mandatory spending programs grow at the same rate 
as average, projected nominal gross domestic product 
(GDP). 
SEC. 313. MAKE IT EASIER TO AMEND APPROPRIATION 
BILLS. 
The first sentence of clause 2(c) of rule XXI of the 
Rules of the House of Representatives is amended by in-
serting ‘‘, except to the extent that it is a germane amend-
ment to an authorizing provision or a line item appropria-
tion of the bill under consideration’’ after ‘‘changing exist-
ing law’’. 
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TITLE IV—EARMARK 
MORATORIUM 
SEC. 401. EARMARK MORATORIUM. 
(a) POINT OF ORDER.—It shall not be in order to 
consider— 
(1) a bill or joint resolution reported by any 
committee, or any amendment thereto or conference 
report thereon, that includes a congressional ear-
mark, limited tax benefit, or limited tariff benefit; or 
(2) a bill or joint resolution not reported by any 
committee, or any amendment thereto or conference 
report thereon, that includes a congressional ear-
mark, limited tax benefit, or limited tariff benefit. 
(b) DEFINITIONS.—For the purposes of this resolu-
tion, the terms ‘‘congressional earmark’’, ‘‘limited tax ben-
efit’’, and ‘‘limited tariff benefit’’ have the meaning given 
those terms in clause 9 of rule XXI of the Rules of the 
House of Representatives. 
(c) SPECIAL RULE.—The point of order under sub-
section (a) shall only apply to legislation providing or au-
thorizing discretionary budget authority, credit authority, 
or other spending authority, providing a Federal tax de-
duction, credit, or exclusion, or modifying the Harmonized 
Tariff Schedule in fiscal year 2012 or fiscal year 2013. 
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(d) INAPPLICABILITY.—This resolution shall not 
apply to any authorization of appropriations to a Federal 
entity if such authorization is not specifically targeted to 
a State, locality, or congressional district. 
SEC. 402. LIMITATION OF AUTHORITY OF THE HOUSE COM-
MITTEE ON RULES. 
The House Committee on Rules may not report a rule 
or order that would waive the point of order set forth in 
the first section of this resolution. 
TITLE V—POLICY 
SEC. 501. POLICY STATEMENT ON HEALTH CARE LAW RE-
PEAL. 
It is the policy of this resolution that the Patient Pro-
tection and Affordable Care Act (Public Law 111–148), 
and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 
2010 (Public Law 111–152) should be repealed. 
SEC. 502. POLICY STATEMENT ON BAILOUTS OF STATE AND 
LOCAL GOVERNMENTS. 
It is the policy of this resolution that the Federal 
Government should not bailout State and local govern-
ments, including State and local government employee 
pension plans and other post-employment benefit plans. 
SEC. 503. POLICY STATEMENT ON MEANS-TESTED WEL-
FARE PROGRAMS. 
(a) FINDINGS.—The House finds that: 
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(1) In 1996, President Bill Clinton and con-
gressional Republicans enacted reforms that have 
moved families off of Federal programs and enabled 
them to provide for themselves. 
(2) According to the most recent projections, 
over the next 10 years we will spend approximately 
$10 trillion on means-tested welfare programs. 
(3) Today, there are approximately 70 Federal 
programs that provide benefits specifically to poor 
and low-income Americans. 
(4) Taxpayers deserve clear and transparent in-
formation on how well these programs are working, 
and how much the Federal Government is spending 
on means-tested welfare. 
(b) POLICY
ON MEANS-TESTED WELFARE PRO-
GRAMS.—It is the policy of this resolution that the Presi-
dent’s budget should disclose, in a clear and transparent 
manner, the aggregate amount of Federal welfare expendi-
tures, as well as an estimate of State and local spending 
for this purpose, over the next ten years. 
SEC. 504. POLICY STATEMENT ON REFORMING THE FED-
ERAL BUDGET PROCESS. 
It is the policy of this resolution that the Federal 
budget process should be reformed so that it is easier to 
reduce Federal spending than it is to increase it by enact-
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ing reforms included in the Spending, Deficit, and Debt 
Control Act of 2009 (H.R. 3964, 111th Congress). 
SEC. 505. POLICY STATEMENT ON REFORMING FEDERAL 
REGULATION. 
It is the policy of this resolution that the cost of regu-
lations on job creators should be reduced by enacting title 
II of the Jobs Through Growth Act (H.R. 3400), as intro-
duced on November 10, 2011. 
SEC. 506. POLICY STATEMENT ON MEDICARE. 
(a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the following: 
(1) More than 50 million Americans depend on 
Medicare for their health security. 
(2) The Medicare Trustees Report has repeat-
edly recommended that Medicare’s long-term finan-
cial challenges be addressed soon. Each year without 
reform, the financial condition of Medicare becomes 
more precarious and the threat to those in and near 
retirement becomes more pronounced. According to 
the Congressional Budget Office— 
(A) the Hospital Insurance Trust Fund 
will be exhausted in 2022 and unable to pay 
scheduled benefits; and 
(B) Medicare spending is growing faster 
than the economy and Medicare outlays are 
currently rising at a rate of 6.3 percent per 
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