Our Necessary Expenditures Act’’ or the ‘‘GET IT DONE 
Act’’. 
SEC. 2. HOLDING SALARIES OF SENIOR GOVERNMENT OF-
FICIALS IN ESCROW. 
(a) HOLDING SALARIES IN ESCROW.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—If by the first day of a fiscal 
year, each of the regular appropriation bills for such 
fiscal year has not been enacted into law, during the 
period described in paragraph (2) the applicable 
payroll administrator shall deposit in an escrow ac-
count all payments otherwise required to be made 
during such period for the compensation of senior 
government officials, and shall release such pay-
ments to such officials only upon the expiration of 
such period. 
(2) PERIOD DESCRIBED.—With respect to a fis-
cal year, the period described in this paragraph is 
the period which begins on the first day of the fiscal 
year and ends on the earlier of— 
(A) the first day by which each of the reg-
ular appropriation bills for such fiscal year has 
been enacted into law; or 
(B) the last day of the Congress during 
which that fiscal year begins. 
(b) ADMINISTRATION OF ESCROW.— 
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(1) 
WITHHOLDING
AND
REMITTANCE
OF 
AMOUNTS FROM PAYMENTS HELD IN ESCROW.—The 
applicable payroll administrator shall provide for the 
same withholding and remittance with respect to a 
payment deposited in an escrow account under sub-
section (a) that would apply to the payment if the 
payment were not subject to such subsection. 
(2) ROLE OF SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY.— 
The Secretary of the Treasury shall provide the ap-
plicable payroll administrators described in para-
graphs (1) and (2) of subsection (d) with such as-
sistance as may be necessary to enable the payroll 
administrators to carry out this section. 
(c) RELEASE OF AMOUNTS AT END OF CONGRESS.— 
The applicable payroll administrator shall release for pay-
ments to senior government officials any amounts remain-
ing in any escrow account under subsection (a) on the last 
day of the Congress during which the amounts were depos-
ited in such account. 
(d) PAYROLL ADMINISTRATOR DEFINED.—In this 
section, the term ‘‘applicable payroll administrator’’ 
means, with respect to a senior government official— 
(1) in the case of a senior government official 
who is a Member of the House of Representatives 
(including a Delegate or Resident Commissioner to 
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the Congress), the Chief Administrative Officer of 
the House of Representatives, or an employee of the 
Office of the Chief Administrative Officer who is 
designated by the Chief Administrative Officer to 
carry out this section; 
(2) in the case of a senior government official 
who is a Senator, the Secretary of the Senate, or an 
employee of the Office of the Secretary of the Senate 
who is designated by the Secretary to carry out this 
section; and 
(3) in the case of any other senior government 
official, the Secretary of the Treasury. 
SEC. 3. PROHIBITING OFFICIAL TRAVEL OF SENIOR GOV-
ERNMENT OFFICIALS. 
(a) PROHIBITION.—If, by the first day of a fiscal 
year, each of the regular appropriation bills for such fiscal 
year has not been enacted into law, no appropriated funds, 
including official funds of the House of Representatives, 
official funds of the Senate, or funds available under any 
Federal law, rule, or regulation, may be used to pay for 
the costs of travel by a senior government official until 
each such bill is enacted into law. 
(b) EXCEPTION FOR TRAVEL TO WASHINGTON MET-
ROPOLITAN AREA.—Subsection (a) does not apply with re-
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spect to travel by a senior government official to the 
Washington Metropolitan Area. 
(c) DEFINITION.—In this section, the term ‘‘Wash-
ington Metropolitan Area’’ means the District of Colum-
bia, the Counties of Anne Arundel, Montgomery, and 
Prince Georges in Maryland, and the Counties of Arling-
ton, Fairfax, Loudon, and Prince William and the Cities 
of Alexandria and Falls Church in Virginia. 
SEC. 4. LIMITATIONS ON ADJOURNMENT. 
Section 309 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 
(2 U.S.C. 640) is amended— 
(1) in the heading, by striking ‘‘HOUSE’’; 
(2) by striking ‘‘It shall not’’ and inserting ‘‘(a) 
LIMITATION ON JULY RECESS IN HOUSE.—It shall 
not’’; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following new sub-
section: 
‘‘(b) LIMITATION ON ADJOURNMENT.—Beginning on 
the first day of each fiscal year, it shall not be in order 
in a House of Congress to adjourn for a period of more 
than 12 hours until the House of Congress has approved 
annual appropriation bills providing new budget authority 
under the jurisdiction of all the subcommittees of the 
Committee on Appropriations of that House for the fiscal 
year. For purposes of this subsection, the chairs of the 
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Committees on Appropriations of the House of Represent-
atives and Senate shall each periodically advise the Speak-
er of the House or the majority leader of the Senate (as 
the case may be) as to changes in jurisdiction among the 
various subcommittees of such Committees.’’. 
SEC. 5. FUNDING THE GOVERNMENT. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Chapter 13 of title 31, United 
States Code, is amended by inserting after section 1310 
the following new section: 
‘‘SEC. 1311. FUNDING THE GOVERNMENT. 
‘‘(a)(1) If any appropriation measure for a fiscal year 
is not enacted before the beginning of such fiscal year, 
or a joint resolution making continuing appropriations is 
not in effect, there are appropriated such sums as may 
be necessary to continue any program, project, or activity 
for which funds were provided in the preceding fiscal 
year— 
‘‘(A) in the corresponding appropriation Act for 
such preceding fiscal year; or 
‘‘(B) if the corresponding appropriation bill for 
such preceding fiscal year did not become law, then 
in a joint resolution making continuing appropria-
tions for such preceding fiscal year. 
‘‘(2)(A) Appropriations and funds made available, 
and authority granted, for a program, project, or activity 
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for any fiscal year pursuant to this section shall be at a 
rate of operations not in excess of the lower of— 
‘‘(i) 100 percent of the rate of operations pro-
vided for in the regular appropriation Act providing 
for such program, project, or activity for the pre-
ceding fiscal year; 
‘‘(ii) in the absence of such an Act, 100 percent 
of the rate of operations provided for such program, 
project, or activity pursuant to a joint resolution 
making continuing appropriations for such preceding 
fiscal year; or 
‘‘(iii) 100 percent of the annualized rate of op-
erations provided for in the most recently enacted 
joint resolution making continuing appropriations 
for part of that fiscal year or any funding levels es-
tablished under the provisions of this Act, 
for the period of 30 days. After the first 30-day period 
during which this subsection is in effect for that fiscal 
year, the applicable rate of operations shall be reduced by 
2.5 percentage points. For each subsequent 30-day period 
during which this subsection is in effect for that fiscal 
year, the applicable rate of operations shall be reduced by 
2.5 percentage points. The 30-day period reductions shall 
extend beyond the last day of that fiscal year. 
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of a fiscal year providing for such program, project, or 
activity for such period becomes law. 
‘‘(d) This section shall not apply to a program, 
project, or activity during a fiscal year if any other provi-
sion of law (other than an authorization of appropria-
tions)— 
‘‘(1) makes an appropriation, makes funds 
available, or grants authority for such program, 
project, or activity to continue for such period; or 
‘‘(2) specifically provides that no appropriation 
shall be made, no funds shall be made available, or 
no authority shall be granted for such program, 
project, or activity to continue for such period.’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections 
of chapter 13 of title 31, United States Code, is amended 
by inserting after the item relating to section 1310 the 
following new item: 
‘‘1311. Funding the Government.’’. 
(c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—This section and the amend-
ments made by this section shall take effect on the date 
of enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 6. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act— 
(1) the term ‘‘Member of Congress’’ means a 
Senator or Representative in, or Delegate or Resi-
dent Commissioner to, the Congress; 
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(2) the term ‘‘regular appropriation bill’’ means 
any annual appropriation bill which, with respect to 
the Congress involved, is under the jurisdiction of a 
single subcommittee of the Committee on Appropria-
tions of the House of Representatives (pursuant to 
the Rules of the House of Representatives for that 
Congress) and a single subcommittee of the Com-
mittee on Appropriations of the Senate (pursuant to 
the Standing Rules of the Senate); and 
(3) the term ‘‘senior government official’’ 
means— 
(A) a Member of Congress; 
(B) the President; 
(C) the Vice President; 
(D) the head of any executive department 
(as that term is defined in section 101 of title 
5, United States Code); and 
(E) any employee of, or detailee to, the 
Executive Office of the President whose annual 
rate of basic pay is equal to or greater than 
$158,000. 
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SEC. 7. EFFECTIVE DATE. 
Except as provided in section 5(c), this Act and the 
amendments made by this Act shall apply with respect to 
fiscal year 2022 and each succeeding fiscal year. 
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