‘‘(6)
COMPTROLLER
GENERAL.—The
term 
‘Comptroller General’ means the Comptroller Gen-
eral of the United States. 
‘‘(7) DEFERRAL OF BUDGET AUTHORITY.—The 
term ‘deferral of budget authority’ includes— 
‘‘(A) withholding or delaying the obliga-
tions
or
expenditure
of
budget
authority 
(whether by establishing reserves or otherwise) 
provided for projects or activities; or 
‘‘(B) any other type of Executive action or 
inaction which effectively precludes the obliga-
tion or expenditure of budget authority, includ-
ing authority to obligate by contract in advance 
of appropriations as specifically authorized by 
law. 
‘‘(8) FUNDING.—(A) Except as provided in sub-
paragraph (B), the term ‘funding’ means all or part 
of the dollar amount of budget authority or obliga-
tion limit— 
‘‘(i) specified in an appropriation measure, 
or the dollar amount of budget authority or ob-
ligation limit required to be allocated by a spe-
cific proviso in an appropriation measure for 
which a specific dollar figure was not included; 
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‘‘(ii) represented separately in any table, 
chart, or explanatory text included in the state-
ment of managers or the governing committee 
report accompanying such law; or 
‘‘(iii) represented by the product of the es-
timated procurement cost and the total quantity 
of items specified in an appropriation measure 
or included in the statement of managers or the 
governing committee report accompanying such 
law. 
‘‘(B) The term ‘funding’ does not include— 
‘‘(i) direct spending; 
‘‘(ii) budget authority in an appropriation 
measure which funds direct spending provided 
for in other law; 
‘‘(iii) any existing budget authority can-
celed in an appropriation measure; or 
‘‘(iv) any restriction or condition in an ap-
propriation measure or the accompanying state-
ment of managers or committee reports on the 
expenditure of budget authority for an account, 
program, project, or activity, or on activities in-
volving such expenditure. 
‘‘(9) WITHHOLD.—The terms ‘withhold’ and 
‘withholding’ apply to any executive action or inac-
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tion that precludes the obligation of funding at a 
time when it would otherwise have been available to 
an agency for obligation. The terms do not include 
administrative or preparatory actions undertaken 
prior to obligation in the normal course of imple-
menting budget laws. 
ø‘‘EXPIRATION 
‘‘SEC. 1016. This title shall have no force or effect 
on or after December 31, 2015.¿ 
‘‘EXPIRATION 
‘‘SEC. 1016. On December 15, 2015, the amendments 
made by the Expedited Legislative Line-Item Veto and Re-
scissions Act of 2011 shall be replaced by the provisions of 
part B of the Impoundment Control Act of 1974 as in effect 
immediately before the date of enactment of the Expedited 
Legislative Line-Item Veto and Rescissions Act of 2011.’’. 
SEC. 3. TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING AMENDMENTS. 
(a) EXERCISE OF RULEMAKING POWERS.—Section 
904 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 
621 note) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘1017’’ and 
inserting ‘‘1013’’; and 
(2)
in
subsection
(d),
by
striking
‘‘section 
1017’’ and inserting ‘‘section 1013’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENTS.—(1) The last sentence 
of section 1(a) of the Congressional Budget and Impound-
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ment Control Act of 1974 is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘Sections 1011 through 1016 of part B of title X may 
be cited as the ‘Expedited Legislative Line-Item Veto and 
Rescissions Act of 2011’.’’. 
(2) Section 1017 of such Act (as redesignated) is 
amended by striking ‘‘section 1012 or 1013’’ each place 
it appears and inserting ‘‘section 1011 or 1019’’ and in 
section 1018 (as redesignated) is amended by striking ‘‘cal-
endar’’ and ‘‘of continuous session’’. 
(3) Section 1019(c) of such Act (as redesignated) is 
amended by striking ‘‘1012’’ and inserting ‘‘1011’’. 
(4) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents set 
forth in section 1(b) of the Congressional Budget and Im-
poundment Control Act of 1974 is amended by striking 
the items relating to parts B and C (including all of the 
items relating to the sections therein) of title X and insert-
ing the following: 
‘‘PART B—CONGRESSIONAL CONSIDERATION OF PROPOSED RESCISSIONS AND 
DEFERRALS OF BUDGET AUTHORITY AND OBLIGATION LIMITATIONS 
‘‘Sec. 1011. Congressional consideration of proposed rescissions and deferrals 
of budget authority and obligation limitations. 
‘‘Sec. 1012. Grants of and limitations on presidential authority. 
‘‘Sec. 1013. Procedures for expedited consideration. 
‘‘Sec. 1014. Treatment of rescissions. 
‘‘Sec. 1015. Definitions. 
‘‘Sec. 1016. Expiration. 
‘‘Sec. 1017. Reports by Comptroller General. 
‘‘Sec. 1018. Suits by Comptroller General. 
‘‘Sec. 1019. Proposed deferrals of budget authority.’’. 
(c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 
this Act shall apply to funding as defined in section 
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1015(8) of the Congressional Budget Act and Impound-
ment Control of 1974 in any Act enacted after the date 
of enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 4. APPROVAL MEASURES CONSIDERED. 
Section 314 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 
is amended— 
(1) by redesignating subsections (b) through (e) 
as subsections (c) through (f) and by inserting after 
subsection (a) the following new subsection: 
‘‘(b) ADJUSTMENTS FOR RESCISSIONS.—(1) When-
ever an approval bill passes the House of Representatives, 
the Committee on the Budget shall immediately reduce the 
applicable allocations under section 302(a) by the total 
amount of reductions in budget authority and in outlays 
resulting from such approval bill. 
‘‘(2) As used in this subsection, the term ‘approval 
bill’ has the meaning given to such term in section 1015.’’; 
and 
(2) in subsection (d) (as redesignated), by in-
serting ‘‘or (b)’’ after ‘‘subsection (a)’’. 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Expedited 
Legislative Line-Item Veto and Rescissions 
Act of 2012’’. 
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SEC. 2. CONGRESSIONAL CONSIDERATION OF PROPOSED 
RESCISSIONS AND DEFERRALS OF BUDGET 
AUTHORITY AND OBLIGATION LIMITATIONS. 
Title X of the Congressional Budget and 
Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 
621 et seq.) is amended by striking all of part 
B (except for sections 1015, 1016, and 1013, 
which are transferred and redesignated as 
sections 1017, 1018, and 1019, respectively) 
and part C and by inserting after part A the 
following: 
‘‘PART B—CONGRESSIONAL CONSIDERATION
OF 
PROPOSED RESCISSIONS AND DEFERRALS OF 
BUDGET AUTHORITY AND OBLIGATION LIMI-
TATIONS 
‘‘CONGRESSIONAL CONSIDERATION OF PROPOSED 
RESCISSIONS AND DEFERRALS OF BUDGET AU-
THORITY AND OBLIGATION LIMITATIONS 
‘‘SEC. 1011. (a) PROPOSED RESCISSIONS.— 
Within 45 days after the enactment of any bill 
or joint resolution providing any funding, the 
President may propose, in the manner pro-
vided in subsection (b), the rescission of all or 
part of any dollar amount of such funding. 
‘‘(b) SPECIAL MESSAGE.—If the President 
proposes that Congress rescind funding, the 
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‘‘(i) any changes in existing 
law, other than the rescission of 
funding; or 
‘‘(ii) any supplemental appro-
priations, 
transfers, 
or 
reprogrammings. 
‘‘GRANTS OF AND LIMITATIONS ON PRESIDENTIAL 
AUTHORITY 
‘‘SEC. 1012. (a) PRESIDENTIAL AUTHORITY TO 
WITHHOLD
FUNDING.—Notwithstanding 
any 
other provision of law and if the President 
proposes a rescission of funding under this 
part, the President may, subject to the time 
limits provided in subsection (c), temporarily 
withhold that funding from obligation. 
‘‘(b) WITHHOLDING AVAILABLE ONLY ONCE 
PER PROPOSED RESCISSION.—Except as pro-
vided in section 1019, the President may not 
invoke the authority to withhold funding 
granted by subsection (a) for any other pur-
pose. 
‘‘(c) TIME
LIMITS.—The President shall 
make available for obligation any funding 
withheld under subsection (a) on the earliest 
of— 
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‘‘(1) the day on which the President 
determines 
that 
the 
continued 
with-
holding or reduction no longer advances 
the purpose of legislative consideration 
of the approval bill; 
‘‘(2) the 45th day following the date of 
enactment of the appropriations measure 
to which the approval bill relates; or 
‘‘(3) the last day that the President 
determines the obligation of the funding 
in question can no longer be fully accom-
plished in a prudent manner before its 
expiration. 
‘‘(d) DEFICIT REDUCTION.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Funds that are re-
scinded under this part shall be dedi-
cated only to reducing the deficit or in-
creasing the surplus. 
‘‘(2) ADJUSTMENT
OF
LEVELS
IN
THE 
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ON THE BUDGET.— 
Not later than 5 days after the date of en-
actment of an approval bill as provided 
under this part, the chairs of the Commit-
tees on the Budget of the Senate and the 
House of Representatives shall revise al-
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locations and aggregates and other ap-
propriate levels under the appropriate 
concurrent resolution on the budget to 
reflect the rescissions, and the Commit-
tees on Appropriations of the House of 
Representatives and the Senate shall re-
port revised suballocations pursuant to 
section 302(b) of title III, as appropriate. 
‘‘(3) ADJUSTMENTS
TO
STATUTORY
LIM-
ITS.—After enactment of an approval bill 
provided under this section, the Presi-
dent 
shall 
revise 
downward 
by 
the 
amount of the rescissions applicable lim-
its under the Balanced Budget and Emer-
gency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
‘‘PROCEDURES FOR EXPEDITED CONSIDERATION 
‘‘SEC. 
1013. 
(a) 
EXPEDITED
CONSIDER-
ATION.— 
‘‘(1) INTRODUCTION OF APPROVAL BILL.— 
The majority leader of each House or a 
designee shall (by request) introduce an 
approval bill as defined in section 1015 
not later than the fifth day of session of 
that House after the date of receipt of a 
special message transmitted to the Con-
gress under section 1011(b). 
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‘‘(2) CONSIDERATION IN THE HOUSE OF 
REPRESENTATIVES.— 
‘‘(A) REFERRAL
AND
REPORTING.— 
Any committee of the House of Rep-
resentatives to which an approval bill 
is referred shall report it to the 
House without amendment not later 
than the fifth legislative day after the 
date of its introduction. If a com-
mittee fails to report the bill within 
that period or the House has adopted 
a concurrent resolution providing for 
adjournment sine die at the end of a 
Congress, such committee shall be 
automatically discharged from fur-
ther consideration of the bill and it 
shall be placed on the appropriate 
calendar. 
‘‘(B) 
PROCEEDING
TO
CONSIDER-
ATION.—Not later than 5 legislative 
days after the approval bill is re-
ported or a committee has been dis-
charged from further consideration 
thereof, it shall be in order to move to 
proceed to consider the approval bill 
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in the House. Such a motion shall be 
in order only at a time designated by 
the Speaker in the legislative sched-
ule within two legislative days after 
the day on which the proponent an-
nounces an intention to the House to 
offer the motion provided that such 
notice may not be given until the ap-
proval bill is reported or a committee 
has been discharged from further 
consideration thereof. Such a motion 
shall not be in order after the House 
has disposed of a motion to proceed 
with respect to that special message. 
The previous question shall be con-
sidered as ordered on the motion to 
its adoption without intervening mo-
tion. A motion to reconsider the vote 
by which the motion is disposed of 
shall not be in order. 
‘‘(C) CONSIDERATION.—If the mo-
tion to proceed is agreed to, the 
House shall immediately proceed to 
consider the approval bill in the 
House without intervening motion. 
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The approval bill shall be considered 
as read. All points of order against 
the approval bill and against its con-
sideration are waived. The previous 
question shall be considered as or-
dered on the approval bill to its pas-
sage without intervening motion ex-
cept 2 hours of debate equally di-
vided and controlled by the pro-
ponent and an opponent and one mo-
tion to limit debate on the bill. A mo-
tion to reconsider the vote on passage 
of the approval bill shall not be in 
order. 
‘‘(3) CONSIDERATION IN THE SENATE.— 
‘‘(A) REFERRAL.—The approval bill 
introduced in the Senate shall be re-
ferred to the committees having juris-
diction over the provisions of law 
contained in the approval bill. 
‘‘(B) 
COMMITTEE
ACTION.—Each 
committee of referral of the Senate 
shall report without amendment the 
approval bill referred to it under this 
subsection not later than the fifth ses-
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sion day after introduction. If a com-
mittee fails to report the approval bill 
within that period or the Senate has 
adopted a concurrent resolution pro-
viding for adjournment sine die at 
the end of a Congress, the Committee 
shall 
be 
automatically 
discharged 
from further consideration of the ap-
proval bill and it shall be placed on 
the appropriate calendar. 
‘‘(C) MOTION
TO
PROCEED.—Not 
later than 5 session days after the ap-
proval bill is reported in the Senate 
or committees have been discharged 
thereof, it shall be in order for any 
Senator to move to proceed to con-
sider the approval bill in the Senate. 
The motion shall be decided without 
debate and the motion to reconsider 
shall be deemed to have been laid on 
the table. Such a motion shall not be 
in order after the Senate has dis-
posed of a prior motion to proceed 
with respect to the approval bill. 
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‘‘(D) CONSIDERATION.—If a motion 
to proceed to the consideration of the 
approval bill is agreed to, the Senate 
shall immediately proceed to consid-
eration of the approval bill without 
intervening motion, order, or other 
business, and the approval bill shall 
remain the unfinished business of the 
Senate until disposed of. Consider-
ation on the bill in the Senate under 
this subsection, and all debatable mo-
tions 
and 
appeals 
in 
connection 
therewith, shall not exceed 10 hours. 
All points of order against the ap-
proval bill or its consideration are 
waived. Consideration in the Senate 
on any debatable motion or appeal in 
connection with the approval bill 
shall be limited to not more than 1 
hour. A motion to postpone, or a mo-
tion to proceed to the consideration 
of other business, or a motion to re-
commit the approval bill is not in 
order. A motion to reconsider the 
vote by which the approval bill is 
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agreed to or disagreed to is not in 
order. 
‘‘(4) 
AMENDMENTS
PROHIBITED.—No 
amendment to, or motion to strike a pro-
vision from, an approval bill considered 
under this section shall be in order in ei-
ther the Senate or the House of Rep-
resentatives. 
‘‘(5) COORDINATION
WITH
ACTION
BY 
OTHER HOUSE.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—If, before pass-
ing the approval bill, one House re-
ceives from the other a bill— 
‘‘(i) the approval bill of the 
other House shall not be referred 
to a committee; and 
‘‘(ii) the procedure in the re-
ceiving House shall be the same 
as if no approval bill had been re-
ceived from the other House until 
the vote on passage, when the bill 
received from the other House 
shall supplant the approval bill of 
the receiving House. 
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‘‘(B) This paragraph shall not 
apply to the House of Representatives 
if the approval bill received from the 
Senate is a revenue measure or an 
appropriation measure. 
‘‘(b) 
LIMITATION.—Subsection 
(a) 
shall 
apply only to an approval bill introduced pur-
suant to subsection (a)(1). 
‘‘(c) CBO ESTIMATE.—Upon receipt of a 
special message under section 1101 proposing 
to rescind all or part of any dollar amount, 
CBO shall prepare and submit to the appro-
priate committees of the House of Representa-
tives and the Senate an estimate of the reduc-
tion in budget authority which would result 
from the enactment of the proposed recisions. 
‘‘TREATMENT OF RESCISSIONS 
‘‘SEC. 1014. Rescissions proposed by the 
President under this part shall take effect 
only upon enactment of the applicable ap-
proval bill. If an approval bill is not enacted 
into law within 45 days from the enactment 
of the appropriation measure to which the ap-
proval bill relates, then the approval bill shall 
not be eligible for expedited consideration 
under the provisions of this Act. 
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‘‘DEFINITIONS 
‘‘SEC. 1015. As used in this part: 
‘‘(1) 
APPROPRIATION
MEASURE.—The 
term ‘appropriation measure’ means an 
Act referred to in section 105 of title 1, 
United States Code, including any gen-
eral or special appropriation Act, or any 
Act making supplemental, deficiency, or 
continuing appropriations, that has been 
enacted into law pursuant to article I, 
section 7, of the Constitution of the 
United States. 
‘‘(2) APPROVAL
BILL.—The term ‘ap-
proval bill’ means a bill which only ap-
proves rescissions of funding in a special 
message transmitted by the President 
under this part and— 
‘‘(A) the title of which is as fol-
lows: ‘A bill approving the proposed 
rescissions transmitted by the Presi-
dent on lll’, the blank space being 
filled in with the date of transmission 
of the relevant special message and 
the public law number to which the 
message relates; and 
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‘‘(B) which provides only the fol-
lowing after the enacting clause: 
‘That the Congress approves the pro-
posed rescissions lll’, the blank 
space being filled in with the list of 
the rescissions contained in the Presi-
dent’s special message, ‘as trans-
mitted by the President in a special 
message on llll’, the blank space 
being filled in with the appropriate 
date, ‘regarding llll.’, the blank 
space being filled in with the public 
law number to which the special mes-
sage relates. 
‘‘(3) DAY.—Except as used in section 
1013, the term ‘day’ means a standard 24- 
hour period beginning at midnight and a 
number of days shall be calculated by ex-
cluding Sundays, legal holidays, and any 
day during which neither chamber of 
Congress is in session. 
‘‘(4) 
RESCIND
OR
RESCISSION.—The 
terms ‘rescind’ or ‘rescission’ mean to 
permanently cancel or prevent budget 
authority or outlays available under an 
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