I 
114TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 484 
To amend the Pay-As-You-Go-Act of 2010 to create an expedited procedure 
to enact recommendations of the Government Accountability Office for 
consolidation and elimination to reduce duplication. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 22, 2015 
Mr. DENT (for himself, Mr. COOPER, Mr. CURBELO of Florida, Mr. GIBSON, 
Mr. GROTHMAN, Mr. HANNA, Mr. JOLLY, Mr. MURPHY of Florida, Mr. 
PETERS, Mr. RIBBLE, Mr. SCHRADER, Mr. SENSENBRENNER, and Mr. 
THOMPSON of Pennsylvania) introduced the following bill; which was re-
ferred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in 
addition to the Committee on Rules, for a period to be subsequently de-
termined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions 
as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To amend the Pay-As-You-Go-Act of 2010 to create an expe-
dited procedure to enact recommendations of the Govern-
ment Accountability Office for consolidation and elimi-
nation to reduce duplication. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘The Duplication Elimi-
nation Act of 2015’’. 
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SEC. 
2. 
EXPEDITED 
CONSIDERATION 
OF 
GAO 
REC-
OMMENDATIONS. 
Title II of the joint resolution entitled ‘‘A joint reso-
lution increasing the statutory limit on the public debt’’ 
(Public Law 111–139; 21 U.S.C. 712 note) is amended 
by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘SEC. 22. EXPEDITED CONSIDERATION OF GAO REC-
OMMENDATIONS. 
‘‘(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section— 
‘‘(1) the term ‘GAO report’ means the annual 
report on duplication, consolidation, and elimination 
of duplicative government programs required under 
section 21; and 
‘‘(2) the term ‘joint resolution’ means only a 
joint resolution that— 
‘‘(A) makes legislative changes needed to 
carry out the recommendations contained in the 
GAO report for a year that the President did 
not exclude; and 
‘‘(B) requires that any savings attributable 
to the legislative changes described in subpara-
graph (A) be transferred to the General Fund 
of the Treasury and be used to reduce the def-
icit. 
‘‘(b) SUBMISSION OF PROPOSED BILL.— 
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‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—Not later than 90 days 
after the date of the publication of the GAO report 
for a year, the President shall transmit to Congress 
a special message accompanied by a proposed joint 
resolution. 
‘‘(2) CONTENTS OF SPECIAL MESSAGE.—A spe-
cial message shall specify— 
‘‘(A) recommendations outlined in the 
GAO report that are excluded from the pro-
posed joint resolution; 
‘‘(B) in detail why the recommendations 
outlined in the GAO report were excluded from 
the proposed joint resolution; and 
‘‘(C) recommendations outlined in the 
GAO report that are included in the proposed 
joint resolution. 
‘‘(3) TRANSMITTAL.—The President shall sub-
mit the special message to the Secretary of the Sen-
ate if the Senate is not in session and to the Clerk 
of the House of Representatives if the House is not 
in session. 
‘‘(4) PUBLIC
AVAILABILITY.—The President 
shall make a copy of the special message and the 
proposed joint resolution publicly available, and shall 
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publish in the Federal Register a notice of the mes-
sage and information on how it can be obtained. 
‘‘(c) PROCEDURES
FOR
EXPEDITED
CONSIDER-
ATION.— 
‘‘(1) INTRODUCTION.—A proposed joint resolu-
tion transmitted by the President under subsection 
(b) shall be introduced in the Senate (by request) on 
the next day on which the Senate is in session by 
the majority leader of the Senate or by a Member 
of the Senate designated by the majority leader of 
the Senate and shall be introduced in the House of 
Representatives (by request) on the next legislative 
day by the majority leader of the House or by a 
Member of the House designated by the majority 
leader of the House. 
‘‘(2) NO REFERRAL.—A joint resolution shall 
not be referred to a committee in either House of 
Congress and shall immediately be placed on the cal-
endar. 
‘‘(3) MOTION TO PROCEED.—A motion to pro-
ceed to a joint resolution is highly privileged in the 
House of Representatives and is privileged in the 
Senate and is not debatable. The motion is not sub-
ject to a motion to postpone, and all points of order 
against the motion are waived. A motion to recon-
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sider the vote by which the motion is agreed to or 
disagreed to shall not be in order. If a motion to 
proceed to the consideration of a joint resolution is 
agreed to, the joint resolution shall remain the un-
finished business of the respective House until dis-
posed of. 
‘‘(4) EXPEDITED
CONSIDERATION
IN
THE 
HOUSE
OF
REPRESENTATIVES.—In the House of 
Representatives, a joint resolution shall be consid-
ered as read. All points of order against the joint 
resolution and against its consideration are waived. 
The previous question shall be considered as ordered 
on the joint resolution to its passage without inter-
vening motion except 2 hours of debate shall be di-
vided equally between the majority and minority 
leaders or their designees. A motion to reconsider 
the vote on passage of the joint resolution shall not 
be in order. A vote on final passage of the joint reso-
lution shall be taken in the House of Representatives 
on or before the close of the tenth calendar day after 
the date of the introduction of the joint resolution 
in the House of Representatives. 
‘‘(5) EXPEDITED
PROCEDURE
IN
THE
SEN-
ATE.— 
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‘‘(A) CONSIDERATION.—In the Senate, 
consideration of a joint resolution, and on all 
debatable motions and appeals in connection 
therewith, shall be limited to not more than 10 
hours, which shall be divided equally between 
the majority and minority leaders or their des-
ignees. A motion to further limit debate is in 
order and not debatable. An amendment to, a 
motion to postpone, a motion to proceed to the 
consideration of other business, or a motion to 
commit the joint resolution is not in order. 
‘‘(B) PASSAGE.—If the Senate has pro-
ceeded to a joint resolution, the vote on passage 
of the joint resolution shall occur immediately 
following the conclusion of consideration of the 
joint resolution, and a single quorum call at the 
conclusion of the debate if requested in accord-
ance with the rules of the Senate. A vote on the 
final passage of the joint resolution shall be 
taken in the Senate on or before the close of 
the tenth calendar day after the date of the in-
troduction of the joint resolution in the Senate. 
‘‘(C) RULINGS OF THE CHAIR ON PROCE-
DURE.—Appeals from the decisions of the Chair 
relating to the application of the rules of the 
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Senate, as the case may be, to the procedure re-
lating to a joint resolution shall be decided 
without debate. 
‘‘(6) POINTS OF ORDER.—In the Senate or the 
House of Representatives, a Member of the Senate 
or House of Representatives, respectively, may raise 
a point of order that a joint resolution does not meet 
the definition of a joint resolution under subsection 
(b). 
‘‘(7) AMENDMENT.—A joint resolution shall not 
be subject to amendment in either the House of 
Representatives or the Senate. 
‘‘(8) CONSIDERATION BY THE OTHER HOUSE.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—If, before passing a 
joint resolution, one House receives from the 
other a joint resolution— 
‘‘(i) the joint resolution from the 
other House shall not be referred to a com-
mittee; and 
‘‘(ii) with respect to a joint resolution 
of the House receiving the joint resolu-
tion— 
‘‘(I) the procedure in that House 
shall be the same as if no joint resolu-
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tion had been received from the other 
House until the vote on passage; but 
‘‘(II) the vote on final passage 
shall be on the joint resolution of the 
other House. 
‘‘(B) REVENUE
MEASURE
EXCEPTION.— 
This paragraph shall not apply to the House of 
Representatives if the joint resolution received 
from the Senate is a revenue measure. 
‘‘(9) RULES OF HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
AND SENATE.—This subsection is enacted by Con-
gress— 
‘‘(A) as an exercise of the rulemaking 
power in the Senate and House of Representa-
tives, respectively, and as such it is deemed a 
part of the rules of each House, respectively, 
but applicable only with respect to the proce-
dure 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 relating to the procedure of that 
House) at any time, in the same manner and 
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to the same extent as in the case of any other 
rule of that House.’’. 
Æ 
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