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‘‘(H) Railroad Retirement System (com-
bined Rail Industry Pension Fund, Social Secu-
rity Equivalent Benefit Account, and National 
Railroad Retirement Investment Trust). 
‘‘(I) Supplemental Security Income (SSI). 
‘‘(J) For estimates made on or after Janu-
ary 1, 2006, veterans disability compensation. 
‘‘(K) Any other entitlement program with 
regularly available long-term estimates. 
‘‘(2) The term ‘entitlement program with regu-
larly available long-term estimates’ means a program 
for which the Director of the Congressional Budget 
Office, in consultation with the Committees on the 
Budget of the House of Representatives and the 
Senate and the Director of the Office of Manage-
ment and Budget, has determined that it is feasible 
to make long-term estimates of expenditures and 
dedicated receipts based on explicit demographic, 
economic, and other estimating assumptions. The 
Director shall notify the House and Senate Commit-
tees on the Budget in writing, whenever he or she 
makes such a determination. 
‘‘(3) The term ‘applicable group of entitlement 
programs’ shall be defined as any of the following:
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‘‘(A) Old Age, Survivors, and Disability In-
surance. 
‘‘(B) All applicable entitlement programs 
except Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insur-
ance. 
‘‘(4) The term ‘long-term estimating period’ 
shall be defined as 75 years, starting with the cur-
rent year, for all applicable entitlement programs ex-
cept for Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insur-
ance. For Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insur-
ance, the term shall be defined as the infinite period 
of years utilized in the most recent annual report of 
the Board of Trustees provided pursuant to section 
201(c)(2) of the Social Security Act. 
‘‘(5) The term ‘last year of the estimating pe-
riod’ shall be defined as the 75th year of the long- 
term estimating period. 
‘‘(6) The term ‘dedicated receipts’ shall be de-
fined, for all applicable entitlement programs other 
than Medicare, as taxes and fees received from the 
public, payments received from Federal agencies on 
behalf of Federal agency employees who are partici-
pants in the program, transfers received by the pro-
gram under section 7(c)(2) of the Railroad Retire-
ment Act of 1974 (45 U.S.C. 231f(c)(2)), and trans-
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fers from the general fund of amounts equivalent to 
income tax receipts under section 86 of the Internal 
Revenue Code. Dedicated receipts shall not include 
payments from the general fund to amortize a pro-
gram’s unfunded liability or payments of interest on 
a program’s trust fund holdings. For Medicare, 
‘dedicated receipts’ shall be defined according to sec-
tion 801(c)(3) of the Medicare Prescription Drug, 
Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003. 
‘‘(7) The term ‘expenditures’ shall be defined, 
for all applicable entitlement programs other than 
Medicare, to include benefit payments, administra-
tive expenses to the extent paid from a dedicated 
fund, and transfers to other programs made under 
section 7(c)(2) of the Railroad Retirement Act of 
1974 (45 U.S.C. 231f(c)(2)). For Medicare, ‘expend-
itures’ shall be defined according to section 
801(c)(4) of the Medicare prescription Drug, Im-
provement, and Modernization Act of 2003. 
‘‘(8) The term ‘applicable threshold’ shall be 
defined as: 
‘‘(A) For a group of applicable entitlement 
programs over a long-term estimating period— 
‘‘(i) 0.02 percent of the present value 
of the taxable payroll of the group of pro-
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grams over the estimating period, for legis-
lation affecting Old Age, Survivors, and 
Disability Insurance or Medicare; and 
‘‘(ii) 1 percent of the present value of 
the expenditures over the estimating period 
of the programs in the group that are af-
fected by the legislation. 
‘‘(B) For a group of applicable entitlement 
programs in the last year of the estimating pe-
riod— 
‘‘(i) 0.02 percent of the taxable pay-
roll of the group of programs in that year, 
for legislation affecting Old Age, Survivors, 
and Disability Insurance or Medicare; 
‘‘(ii) 0.01 percent of Gross Domestic 
Product in that year; or 
‘‘(iii) 1 percent of the expenditures in 
that year of the programs in the group 
that are affected by the legislation.’’. 
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—The table of con-
tents set forth in section 1(b) of the Congressional Budget 
and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 is amended by 
adding after the item relating to section 428 the following: 
‘PART C—LONG-TERM UNFUNDED OBLIGATIONS 
‘‘Sec. 441. Analysis of long-term unfunded obligations.
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‘‘Sec. 442. Point of order against legislation increasing long-term unfunded obli-
gations. 
‘‘Sec. 443. Standard for determining increase in long-term unfunded obligation. 
‘‘Sec. 444. Long-term unfunded obligation analyses by congressional budget of-
fice. 
‘‘Sec. 445. Definitions. 
SEC. 222. POINTS OF ORDER. 
Section 904 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 
is amended as follows: 
(1) Subsection (c)(1) is amended by adding 
‘‘442,’’ after ‘‘310(d)(2), 313,’’. 
(2) Subsection (d)(2) is amended by adding 
‘‘442,’’ after ‘‘310(d)(2), 313,’’. 
SEC. 223. SOCIAL SECURITY. 
Section 13302(a) of subtitle C of the Budget En-
forcement Act of 1990 is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—It shall be not be in order in the 
House of Representatives to consider any bill, or joint res-
olution, as reported, or any amendment thereto or con-
ference report thereon, if, upon enactment, such legisla-
tion under consideration would increase the long-term un-
funded obligation of the OASDI program, as defined in 
section 443 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974.’’.
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TITLE III—COMBATING WASTE, 
FRAUD, AND ABUSE. 
Subtitle A—Sunsetting 
SEC. 301. REAUTHORIZATION OF DISCRETIONARY PRO-
GRAMS AND UNEARNED ENTITLEMENTS. 
(a) FISCAL YEAR 2009.—Effective October 1, 2008, 
spending authority for each unearned entitlement and 
high-cost discretionary spending program is frozen at then 
current levels unless such spending authority is reauthor-
ized after the date of enactment of this Act. 
(b) FISCAL YEAR 2010.—Effective October 1, 2009, 
spending authority for each discretionary spending pro-
gram (not including high-cost discretionary spending pro-
grams) is frozen at then current levels unless such spend-
ing authority is reauthorized after the date of enactment 
of this Act. 
(c) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this title— 
(1) the term ‘‘unearned entitlement’’ means an 
entitlement not earned by service or paid for in total 
or in part by assessments or contributions such as 
Social Security, veterans’ benefits, retirement pro-
grams, and medicare; and 
(2) the term ‘‘high-cost discretionary program’’ 
means the most expensive one-third of discretionary 
program within each budget function account.
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SEC. 302. POINT OF ORDER. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—It shall not be in order in the 
House of Representatives or the Senate to consider any 
bill, joint resolution, amendment, or conference report that 
includes any provision that appropriates funds above cur-
rent levels unless such appropriation has been previously 
authorized by law. 
(b) WAIVER OR SUSPENSION.—This section may be 
waived or suspended in the House of Representatives or 
the Senate only by the affirmative vote of two-thirds of 
the Members, duly chosen and sworn. 
SEC. 303. DECENNIAL SUNSETTING. 
(a) FIRST DECENNIAL CENSUS YEAR.—Effective on 
the first day of the fiscal year beginning in the first decen-
nial census year after the year 2010 and each 10 years 
thereafter, the spending authority described in section 
301(a) is terminated unless such spending authority is re-
authorized after the last date the spending authority was 
required to be reauthorized under this title. 
(b) FIRST DECENNIAL CENSUS YEAR.—Effective on 
the first day of the fiscal year beginning in the year after 
the first decennial census year after the year 2010 and 
each 10 years thereafter, the spending authority described 
in section 301(b) is terminated unless such spending au-
thority is reauthorized after the last date the spending au-
thority was required to be reauthorized under this title.