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(k) TERMINATION.—The Commission shall terminate
30 days after the date of submission of the report required
in section 802(b).
SEC. 804. POWERS.
(a) HEARINGS AND OTHER ACTIVITIES.—For the
purpose of carrying out its duties, the Commission may
hold such hearings and undertake such other activities as
the Commission determines to be necessary to carry out
its duties.
(b) STUDIES BY GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE.—
Upon the request of the Commission, the Comptroller
General shall conduct such studies or investigations as the
Commission determines to be necessary to carry out its
duties.
(c) COST ESTIMATES BY CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET
OFFICE.—
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Upon the request of the
Commission, the Director of the Congressional
Budget Office shall provide to the Commission such
cost estimates as the Commission determines to be
necessary to carry out its duties.
(2) REIMBURSEMENT.—The Commission shall
reimburse the Director of the Congressional Budget
Office for expenses relating to the employment in
the office of the Director of such additional staff as
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may be necessary for the Director to comply with
requests by the Commission under paragraph (1).
(d) TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE.—Upon the request of
the Commission, the head of a Federal agency shall pro-
vide such technical assistance to the Commission as the
Commission determines to be necessary to carry out its
duties.
(e) USE OF MAILS.—The Commission may use the
United States mails in the same manner and under the
same conditions as Federal agencies, and shall, for pur-
poses of the frank, be considered a commission of Con-
gress as described in section 3215 of title 39, United
States Code.
(f) OBTAINING
INFORMATION.—The Commission
may secure directly from any Federal agency information
necessary to enable it to carry out its duties, if the infor-
mation may be disclosed under section 552 of title 5, Unit-
ed States Code. Upon request of the Chairman of the
Commission, the head of such agency shall furnish such
information to the Commission.
(g) ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT SERVICES.—Upon
the request of the Commission, the Administrator of Gen-
eral Services shall provide to the Commission on a reim-
bursable basis such administrative support services as the
Commission may request.
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(h) ACCEPTANCE OF DONATIONS.—The Commission
may accept, use, and dispose of gifts or donations of serv-
ices or property.
(i) PRINTING.—For purposes of costs relating to
printing and binding, including the costs of personnel de-
tailed from the Government Printing Office, the Commis-
sion shall be deemed to be a committee of the Congress.
SEC. 
805. 
CONGRESSIONAL 
CONSIDERATION 
OF 
REC-
OMMENDATIONS.
(a) INTRODUCTION
OF RECOMMENDATIONS.—The
legislative language transmitted pursuant to section 802
with the recommendations of the Commission shall be in
the form of a joint resolution. Such joint resolution may
be introduced in either House of the Congress by any
member thereof.
(b) TERMS OF THE RESOLUTION.—For purposes of
this section, the term ‘‘joint resolution’’ means a joint res-
olution that—
(1) does not have a preamble;
(2) sets forth after the resolving clause only the
legislative language contained in the report from the
Commission; and
(3) is entitled a ‘‘Joint resolution approving the
recommendations of the Social Security Transition
Commission.’’.
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(c) EXPEDITED PROCEDURE.—
(1) REFERRAL.—A joint resolution that is in-
troduced in the House of Representatives shall be
referred to the Committee on Government Oper-
ations of the House of Representatives. A joint reso-
lution that is introduced in the Senate shall be re-
ferred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs of
the Senate.
(2) DISCHARGE.—If the committee to which a
joint resolution is referred has not reported the reso-
lution (or an identical resolution) by the end of the
30-day period beginning on the date on which the
Commission transmits the report to the Congress,
such committee shall, at the end of that period, be
discharged from further consideration of the resolu-
tion, and the resolution shall be placed on the appro-
priate calendar of the House of Representatives or
the Senate, as the case may be.
(3) CONSIDERATION.—
(A) IN GENERAL.—On or after the first
day after the date on which the committee to
which a joint resolution is referred has re-
ported, or has been discharged (under para-
graph (3)) from further consideration of, such
a resolution, it is in order (even though a pre-
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vious motion to the same effect has been dis-
agreed to) for any member of the House of
Representatives or the Senate, respectively, to
move to proceed to the consideration of the res-
olution (but only on the date after the calendar
day on which the member announces to the
House concerned the member’s intention to do
so).
(B) POINTS
OF
ORDER
WAIVED.—All
points of order against a joint resolution (and
against consideration of the resolution) are
waived.
(C) MOTION TO PROCEED.—A motion to
proceed to the consideration of a joint resolu-
tion is highly privileged in the House of Rep-
resentatives and is privileged in the Senate and
is not debatable. The motion is not subject to
amendment, to a motion to postpone consider-
ation of the resolution, or to a motion to pro-
ceed to the consideration of other business. A
motion to reconsider the vote by which the mo-
tion to proceed is agreed to or not agreed to
shall not be in order. If the motion to proceed
is agreed to, the House of Representatives or
the Senate, as the case may be, shall imme-
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diately proceed to consideration of the joint res-
olution without intervening motion, order, or
other business, and the resolution shall remain
the unfinished business of the House of Rep-
resentatives or the Senate, as the case may be,
until disposed of.
(D) LIMITED DEBATE.—Debate on a joint
resolution and on all debatable motions and ap-
peals in connection therewith shall be limited to
not more than 5 hours, which shall be divided
equally between those favoring and those oppos-
ing the resolution. A motion further to limit de-
bate on a joint resolution is in order and not
debatable.
(E) AMENDMENTS
NOT
IN
ORDER.—An
amendment to a joint resolution is not in order.
(F) OTHER MOTIONS NOT IN ORDER.—A
motion to postpone consideration of a joint res-
olution, a motion to proceed to the consider-
ation of other business, or a motion to recom-
mit the resolution is not in order. A motion to
reconsider the vote by which a joint resolution
is agreed to or not agreed to is not in order.
(G) VOTE
ON
FINAL
PASSAGE.—Imme-
diately following the conclusion of the debate on
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a joint resolution and a single quorum call at
the conclusion of the debate if requested in ac-
cordance with the rules of the House of Rep-
resentatives or the Senate, as the case may be,
the vote on final passage of the resolution shall
occur.
(H) APPEALS.—Appeals from the decisions
of the Chair relating to the application of the
rules of the House of Representatives or of the
Senate, as the case may be, to the procedure re-
lating to a joint resolution shall be decided
without debate.
(4) CONSIDERATION BY OTHER HOUSE.—If, be-
fore the passage by one House of a joint resolution
that was introduced in such House, such House re-
ceives from the other House a joint resolution as
passed by such other House—
(A) the resolution of the other House shall
not be referred to a committee and may not be
considered in the House that receives it other-
wise than on final passage under subparagraph
(C);
(B) the procedure in the House in receipt
of the resolution of the other House, with re-
spect to the joint resolution that was introduced
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in House in receipt of the resolution of the
other House, shall be the same as if no resolu-
tion had been received from the other House;
and
(C) notwithstanding subparagraph (B), the
vote on final passage shall be on the resolution
of the other House.
Upon disposition of a joint resolution that is re-
ceived by one House from the other House, it shall
no longer be in order to consider the joint resolution
that was introduced in the receiving House.
(5) DATE
CERTAIN.—If the Senate and the
House of Representatives have not acted upon the
joint resolution by September 30, 2001, then on that
day or the next day of session thereafter the joint
resolution shall be called up by the Presiding Officer
of each House upon convening and a roll call vote
shall be conducted on passage. If the joint resolution
passes one House a vote on final passage shall be
immediately conducted in the other House.
(6) RULES OF THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES.—This subsection is enacted by
Congress—
(A) as an exercise of the rulemaking power
of the Senate and House of Representatives, re-
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spectively, and is deemed to be part of the rules
of each House, respectively, but applicable only
with respect to the procedure to be followed in
that House in the case of a joint resolution, and
it supersedes other rules only to the extent that
it is inconsistent with such rules; and
(B) with full recognition of the constitu-
tional right of either House to change the rules
(so far as they relate to the procedure of that
House) at any time, in the same manner, and
to the same extent as in the case of any other
rule of that House.
SEC. 806. DEFINITIONS.
As used in this title, the terms ‘‘budget outlay’’, ‘‘out-
lay’’, ‘‘new budget authority’’, ‘‘direct spending’’, and
‘‘OMB’’ have the meanings given to such terms by section
250(c) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit
Control Act of 1985.
SEC. 807. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.
There is hereby authorized to be made available for
fiscal years 1999, 2000, and 2001, from amounts not oth-
erwise appropriated in the general fund of the Treasury,
such sums as are necessary to carry out the provisions
of this title.
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