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Subtitle B—Enhanced Rescissions 
of Budget Authority Identified 
by the President as Wasteful 
Spending 
SEC. 311. ENHANCED CONSIDERATION OF CERTAIN PRO-
POSED RESCISSIONS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Part B of title X of the Congres-
sional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (2 
U.S.C. 681 et seq.) is amended by redesignating sections 
1013 through 1017 as sections 1014 through 1018, re-
spectively, and by inserting after section 1012 the fol-
lowing new section: 
‘‘ENHANCED CONSIDERATION OF CERTAIN PROPOSED 
RESCISSIONS 
‘‘SEC. 1013. (a) PROPOSED RESCISSION OF BUDGET 
AUTHORITY IDENTIFIED AS WASTEFUL SPENDING.—The 
President may propose, at the time and in the manner 
provided in subsection (b), the rescission of any budget 
authority provided in an appropriation Act that he identi-
fies as wasteful spending. If the President proposes a re-
scission of budget authority, he may also propose to reduce 
the appropriate discretionary spending limits for new 
budget authority and outlays flowing therefrom set forth 
in section 251(b) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985 by an amount that does not
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exceed the amount of the proposed rescission. Funds made 
available for obligation under this procedure may not be 
proposed for rescission again under this section. 
‘‘(b) TRANSMITTAL OF SPECIAL MESSAGE.— 
‘‘(1) The President may transmit to Congress a 
special message proposing to rescind amounts of 
budget authority and include with that special mes-
sage a draft bill that, if enacted, would only rescind 
that budget authority unless the President also pro-
poses a reduction in the appropriate discretionary 
spending limits set forth in section 251(b) of the 
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 
Act of 1985. That bill shall clearly identify the 
amount of budget authority that is proposed to be 
rescinded for each program, project, or activity to 
which that budget authority relates. 
‘‘(2) In the case of an appropriation Act that 
includes accounts within the jurisdiction of more 
than one subcommittee of the Committee on Appro-
priations, the President in proposing to rescind 
budget authority under this section shall send a sep-
arate special message and accompanying draft bill 
for accounts within the jurisdiction of each sub-
committee.
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‘‘(3) Each special message shall specify, with 
respect to the budget authority proposed to be re-
scinded, the following: 
‘‘(A) The amount of budget authority 
which he proposes to be rescinded. 
‘‘(B) Any account, department, or estab-
lishment of the Government to which such 
budget authority is available for obligation, and 
the specific project or governmental functions 
involved. 
‘‘(C) The reasons why the budget authority 
should be rescinded, including why he considers 
it to be wasteful spending. 
‘‘(D) To the maximum extent practicable, 
the estimated fiscal, economic, and budgetary 
effect (including the effect on outlays and re-
ceipts in each fiscal year) of the proposed re-
scission. 
‘‘(E) All facts, circumstances, and consid-
erations relating to or bearing upon the pro-
posed rescission and the decision to effect the 
proposed rescission, and to the maximum extent 
practicable, the estimated effect of the proposed 
rescission upon the objects, purposes, and pro-
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grams for which the budget authority is pro-
vided. 
‘‘(F) A reduction in the appropriate discre-
tionary spending limits set forth in section 
251(b) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985, if proposed by the 
President. 
‘‘(c) PROCEDURES
FOR
EXPEDITED
CONSIDER-
ATION.— 
‘‘(1)(A) Before the close of the second legisla-
tive day of the House of Representatives after the 
date of receipt of a special message transmitted to 
Congress under subsection (b), the majority leader 
or minority leader of the House of Representatives 
shall introduce (by request) the draft bill accom-
panying that special message. If the bill is not intro-
duced as provided in the preceding sentence, then, 
on the third legislative day of the House of Rep-
resentatives after the date of receipt of that special 
message, any Member of that House may introduce 
the bill. 
‘‘(B) The bill shall be referred to the Com-
mittee on Appropriations. The committee shall re-
port the bill without substantive revision and with or 
without recommendation. The bill shall be reported
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not later than the seventh legislative day of that 
House after the date of receipt of that special mes-
sage. If that committee fails to report the bill within 
that period, that committee shall be automatically 
discharged from consideration of the bill, and the 
bill shall be placed on the appropriate calendar. 
‘‘(C) A vote on final passage of the bill shall be 
taken in the House of Representatives on or before 
the close of the 10th legislative day of that House 
after the date of the introduction of the bill in that 
House. If the bill is passed, the Clerk of the House 
of Representatives shall cause the bill to be en-
grossed, certified, and transmitted to the Senate 
within one calendar day of the day on which the bill 
is passed. 
‘‘(2)(A) A motion in the House of Representa-
tives to proceed to the consideration of a bill under 
this section shall be highly privileged and not debat-
able. An amendment to the motion shall not be in 
order, nor shall it be in order to move to reconsider 
the vote by which the motion is agreed to or dis-
agreed to. 
‘‘(B) Debate in the House of Representatives 
on a bill under this section shall not exceed 4 hours, 
which shall be divided equally between those favoring
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and those opposing the bill. A motion to further 
limit debate shall not be debatable. It shall not be 
in order to move to recommit a bill under this sec-
tion or to move to reconsider the vote by which the 
bill is agreed to or disagreed to. 
‘‘(C) Appeals from decisions of the Chair relat-
ing to the application of the Rules of the House of 
Representatives to the procedure relating to a bill 
under this section shall be decided without debate. 
‘‘(D) Except to the extent specifically provided 
in the preceding provisions of this subsection, con-
sideration of a bill under this section shall be gov-
erned by the Rules of the House of Representatives. 
It shall not be in order in the House of Representa-
tives to consider any rescission bill introduced pursu-
ant to the provisions of this section under a suspen-
sion of the rules or under a special rule. 
‘‘(3) A bill transmitted to the Senate pursuant 
to paragraph (1)(D) shall be referred to its Com-
mittee on Appropriations. That committee shall re-
port the bill without substantive revision and with or 
without recommendation. The bill shall be reported 
not later than the seventh legislative day of the Sen-
ate after it receives the bill. A committee failing to 
report the bill within such period shall be automati-