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114TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3534 
To reduce the national debt and eliminate waste in Government spending, 
and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 17, 2015 
Mr. GUINTA (for himself and Ms. SINEMA) introduced the following bill; which 
was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 
and in addition to the Committee on Rules, for a period to be subse-
quently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such 
provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To reduce the national debt and eliminate waste in 
Government spending, and for other purposes. 
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 ‘‘Audit U.S. Depart-
ments to Insulate Taxpayers Act of 2015’’ or the ‘‘AUDIT 
Act’’. 
SEC. 2. GAO REPORT REQUIRED. 
(a) GAO REPORT.—Not later than 90 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, 
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the Comptroller General shall submit to Congress the re-
port required by section 21 of title II of Public Law 111– 
139 (124 Stat. 29; 31 U.S.C. 712 Note), including a legis-
lative proposal that implements the recommendations. 
(b) INTRODUCTION OF LEGISLATIVE RECOMMENDA-
TIONS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 30 days after 
the date on which the report is submitted under sub-
section (a), a legislative proposal based on the report 
shall be introduced in the Senate by the chair or 
ranking minority member of the Homeland Security 
and Governmental Affairs Committee of the Senate 
and shall be introduced in the House of Representa-
tives by the chair or ranking minority member of the 
Oversight and Government Reform Committee of the 
House of Representatives. 
(2) NOT IN SESSION.—If either House is not in 
session on the day on which such legislative proposal 
is submitted, the legislative proposal shall be intro-
duced in that House, as provided in paragraph (1), 
on the first day thereafter on which that House is 
in session. 
(3) INTRODUCTION BY MEMBER.—If the legisla-
tive proposal is not introduced in either House with-
in 5 days on which that House is in session after the 
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shall be, at the end of such period, discharged from fur-
ther consideration of such bill, and such bill shall be placed 
on the appropriate calendar of the House involved. In cal-
culating the 60-day period, days on which either House 
is not in session because of an adjournment of more than 
3 days to a date certain shall not be counted. 
(e) EXPEDITED CONSIDERATION.— 
(1) CONSIDERATION.—On or after the third 
day after the date on which the committee to which 
such a bill is referred has reported, or has been dis-
charged (under subsection (d)) from further consid-
eration of, such a bill, it is in order (even though a 
previous motion to the same effect has been dis-
agreed to) for any Member of the respective House 
to move to proceed to the consideration of the bill. 
A member may make the motion only on the legisla-
tive day after the day on which the Member an-
nounces to the House concerned the Member’s inten-
tion to make the motion, except that, in the case of 
the House of Representatives, the motion may be 
made without such prior announcement if the mo-
tion is made by direction of the committee to which 
the bill was referred. The motion is highly privileged 
in the House of Representatives and is privileged in 
the Senate and is not debatable. The motion is not 
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subject to amendment, or to a motion to postpone, 
or to a motion to proceed to the consideration of 
other business. A motion to reconsider the vote by 
which the motion is agreed to or disagreed to shall 
not be in order. If a motion to proceed to the consid-
eration of the bill is agreed to, the respective House 
shall immediately proceed to consideration of the bill 
without intervening motion, order, or other business, 
and the bill shall remain the unfinished business of 
the respective House until disposed of. 
(2) DEBATE.—Debate on the bill, and on all 
debatable motions and appeals in connection there-
with, shall be limited to not more than 4 hours in 
the House of Representatives and 10 hours in the 
Senate, which shall be divided equally between those 
favoring and those opposing the bill. A motion fur-
ther to limit debate is in order and not debatable. 
A motion to postpone, or a motion to proceed to the 
consideration of other business, or a motion to re-
commit the bill is not in order. A motion to recon-
sider the vote by which the bill is agreed to or dis-
agreed to is not in order. 
(3) VOTE
ON
FINAL
PASSAGE.—Immediately 
following the conclusion of the debate on the bill and 
a single quorum call at the conclusion of the debate 
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if requested in accordance with the rules of the ap-
propriate House, the vote on final passage of the bill 
shall occur. 
(4) APPEALS.—Appeals from the decisions of 
the chair relating to the application of the rules of 
the Senate or the House of Representatives, as the 
case may be, to the procedure relating to the bill 
shall be decided without debate. 
(f) EXERCISE OF RULEMAKING POWERS.—This sec-
tion is enacted by the Congress— 
(1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of 
the House of Representatives and the Senate, re-
spectively, and as such they shall be considered as 
part of the rules of each House, respectively, or of 
that House to which they specifically apply, and 
such rules shall supersede other rules only to the ex-
tent that they are inconsistent therewith; and 
(2) with full recognition of the constitutional 
right of either House to change such rules (so far 
as relating to such House) at any time, in the same 
manner, and to the same extent as in the case of 
any other rule of such House. 
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(g) DEFINITIONS.—In this section, the term ‘‘agen-
cy’’ has the meaning given that term in section 551 of 
title 5, United States Code. 
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