funding, the President shall request at most 2 pack-
ages of rescissions and the rescissions in each pack-
age shall apply only to funding contained in that leg-
islation. The President shall not include the same re-
scission in both packages. 
‘‘(2) TRANSMITTAL.—The President shall de-
liver each message requesting a package of rescis-
sions to the Secretary of the Senate if the Senate is 
not in session and to the Clerk of the House of Rep-
resentatives if the House is not in session. The 
President shall make a copy of the transmittal mes-
sage publicly available, and shall publish in the Fed-
eral Register a notice of the message and informa-
tion on how it can be obtained. 
‘‘(3) CONTENTS
OF
SPECIAL
MESSAGE.—For 
each request to rescind funding under this part, the 
transmittal message shall— 
‘‘(A) specify— 
‘‘(i) the dollar amount to be re-
scinded; 
‘‘(ii) the agency, bureau, and account 
from which the rescission shall occur; 
‘‘(iii) the program, project, or activity 
within the account (if applicable) from 
which the rescission shall occur; 
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‘‘(iv) the amount of funding, if any, 
that would remain for the account, pro-
gram, project, or activity if the rescission 
request is enacted; 
‘‘(v) the reasons the President re-
quests the rescission; 
‘‘(vi) to the maximum extent prac-
ticable, the estimated fiscal, economic, and 
budgetary effect (including the effect on 
outlays and receipts in each fiscal year) of 
the proposed rescission; 
‘‘(vii) to the maximum extent prac-
ticable, all facts, circumstances, and con-
siderations relating to or bearing upon the 
proposed rescission and the decision to 
propose the rescission, and the estimated 
effect of the proposed rescission upon the 
objects, purposes, or programs; and 
‘‘(viii) if a second special message is 
transmitted pursuant to subsection (b)(2), 
a detailed explanation of why the proposed 
rescissions are not substantially similar to 
any other proposed rescission in such other 
message; and 
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‘‘(B) designate each separate rescission re-
quest by number; and include proposed legisla-
tive text of an approval bill to accomplish the 
requested rescissions which may not include— 
‘‘(i) any changes in existing law, other 
than the rescission of funding; or 
‘‘(ii) any supplemental appropriations, 
transfers, or reprogrammings. 
‘‘GRANTS OF AND LIMITATIONS ON PRESIDENTIAL 
AUTHORITY 
‘‘SEC. 1012. (a) PRESIDENTIAL AUTHORITY TO 
WITHHOLD FUNDING.—Notwithstanding any other provi-
sion 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 with-
hold that funding from obligation. 
‘‘(b) WITHHOLDING AVAILABLE ONLY ONCE PER 
PROPOSED RESCISSION.—Except as provided in section 
1019, the President may not invoke the authority to with-
hold funding granted by subsection (a) for any other pur-
pose. 
‘‘(c) TIME LIMITS.—The President shall make avail-
able for obligation any funding withheld under subsection 
(a) on the earliest of— 
‘‘(1) the day on which the President determines 
that the continued withholding or reduction no 
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longer advances the purpose of legislative consider-
ation of the approval bill; 
‘‘(2) the 45th day following the date of enact-
ment of the appropriations measure to which the ap-
proval bill relates; or 
‘‘(3) the last day that the President determines 
the obligation of the funding in question can no 
longer be fully accomplished in a prudent manner 
before its expiration. 
‘‘(d) DEFICIT REDUCTION.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Funds that are rescinded 
under this part shall be dedicated only to reducing 
the deficit or increasing the surplus. 
‘‘(2) ADJUSTMENT OF LEVELS IN THE CONCUR-
RENT
RESOLUTION
ON
THE
BUDGET.—Not later 
than 5 days after the date of enactment of an ap-
proval bill as provided under this part, the chairs of 
the Committees on the Budget of the Senate and the 
House of Representatives shall revise allocations and 
aggregates and other appropriate levels under the 
appropriate concurrent resolution on the budget to 
reflect the rescissions, and the Committees on Ap-
propriations of the House of Representatives and the 
Senate shall report revised suballocations pursuant 
to section 302(b) of title III, as appropriate. 
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‘‘(3) ADJUSTMENTS TO STATUTORY LIMITS.— 
After enactment of an approval bill provided under 
this section, the President shall revise downward by 
the amount of the rescissions applicable limits under 
the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 
Act of 1985. 
‘‘PROCEDURES FOR EXPEDITED CONSIDERATION 
‘‘SEC. 1013. (a) EXPEDITED CONSIDERATION.— 
‘‘(1) REFERRAL
OF
SPECIAL
MESSAGE.—Any 
special message received by the Congress pursuant 
to section 1011(b) shall be referred to the Commit-
tees on Appropriations and the Committees on the 
Budget of the House of Representatives and the 
Senate. 
‘‘(2) INTRODUCTION OF APPROVAL BILL.—The 
majority leader or minority leader of the House of 
Representatives or his designee shall (by request) in-
troduce an approval bill as defined in section 1015 
not later than the third day or, if the House is not 
in session during that period, the next day of session 
after the date of receipt of a special message trans-
mitted to the Congress under section 1011(b). If the 
bill is not introduced as provided in the preceding 
sentence in the House, then, on the first day the 
House is in session following the period during 
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