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103D CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 223
To grant the power to the President to reduce budget authority.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JANUARY 5, 1993
Mr. KASICH introduced the following bill; which was referred jointly to the
Committees on Government Operations and Rules
A BILL
To grant the power to the President to reduce budget
authority.
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 ‘‘Legislative Line Item
Veto Act of 1993’’.
SEC. 2. ENHANCEMENT OF SPENDING CONTROL BY THE
PRESIDENT.
The Impoundment Control Act of 1974 is amended
by adding at the end the following new title:
‘‘(1) the amount of budget authority rescinded;
‘‘(2) any account, department, or establishment
of the Government to which such budget authority
is available for obligation, and the specific project or
governmental functions involved;
‘‘(3) the reasons and justifications for the de-
termination to rescind budget authority pursuant to
section 1101(a)(1);
‘‘(4) to the maximum extent practicable, the es-
timated fiscal, economic, and budgetary effect of the
rescission; and
‘‘(5) all facts, circumstances, and considerations
relating to or bearing upon the rescission and the
decision to effect the rescission, and to the maxi-
mum extent practicable, the estimated effect of the
rescission upon the objects, purposes, and programs
for which the budget authority is provided.
‘‘TRANSMISSION OF MESSAGES; PUBLICATION
‘‘SEC. 1112. (a) DELIVERY TO HOUSE AND SEN-
ATE.—Each special message transmitted under sections
1101 and 1111 shall be transmitted to the House of Rep-
resentatives and the Senate on the same day, and shall
be delivered to the Clerk of the House of Representatives
if the House is not in session, and to the Secretary of
the Senate if the Senate is not in session. Each special
message so transmitted shall be referred to the appro-
priate committees of the House of Representatives and the
Senate. Each such message shall be printed as a document
of each House.
‘‘(b) PRINTING IN FEDERAL REGISTER.—Any special
message transmitted under sections 1101 and 1111 shall
be printed in the first issue of the Federal Register pub-
lished after such transmittal.
‘‘PROCEDURE IN SENATE
‘‘SEC. 1113. (a) REFERRAL.—(1) Any rescission dis-
approval bill introduced with respect to a special message
shall be referred to the appropriate committees of the
House of Representatives or the Senate, as the case may
be.
‘‘(2) Any rescission disapproval bill received in the
Senate from the House shall be considered in the Senate
pursuant to the provisions of this section.
‘‘(b) FLOOR CONSIDERATION IN THE SENATE.—
‘‘(1) Debate in the Senate on any rescission dis-
approval bill and debatable motions and appeals in
connection therewith, shall be limited to not more
than 10 hours. The time shall be equally divided be-
tween, and controlled by, the majority leader and the
minority leader or their designees.
‘‘(2) Debate in the Senate on any debatable mo-
tion or appeal in connection with such a bill shall be
limited to 1 hour, to be equally divided between, and
controlled by, the mover and the manager of the bill,
except that in the event the manager of the bill is
in favor of any such motion or appeal, the time in
opposition thereto shall be controlled by the minority
leader or his designee. Such leaders, or either of
them, may, from the time under their control on the
passage of the bill, allot additional time to any Sen-
ator during the consideration of any debatable mo-
tion or appeal.
‘‘(3) A motion to further limit debate is not de-
batable. A motion to recommit (except a motion to
recommit with instructions to report back within a
specified number of days, not to exceed 1, not count-
ing any day on which the Senate is not in session)
is not in order.
‘‘(c) POINT OF ORDER.—(1) It shall not be in order
in the Senate or the House of Representatives to consider
any rescission disapproval bill that relates to any matter
other than the rescission of budget authority transmitted
by the President under section 1101.
‘‘(2) It shall not be in order in the Senate or the
House of Representatives to consider any amendment to
a rescission disapproval bill.
‘‘(3) Paragraphs (1) and (2) may be waived or sus-
pended in the Senate only by a vote of three-fifths of the
members duly chosen and sworn.’’.
SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.
The amendment made by section 2 shall be applicable
only during the One Hundred Third Congress.
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