section 107(a) or (b), the President shall transmit to Con-
gress a response consisting of either approval or dis-
approval of each of the recommendations contained in the 
report from the Commission. Such response shall include 
an explanation for the disapproval of any such rec-
ommendation. 
(b) IMPLEMENTATION.—The appropriate Federal of-
ficials shall, unless a joint resolution described in sub-
section (c) is enacted pursuant to this section, implement 
all recommendations approved by the President under sub-
section (a). 
(c) TERMS OF THE RESOLUTION.—For purposes of 
subsection (b), the term ‘‘joint resolution’’ means only a 
joint resolution which is introduced within the 10-day pe-
riod beginning on the date on which the President trans-
mits the response to the Congress under subsection (a), 
and— 
(1) which does not have a preamble; 
(2) the matter after the resolving clause of 
which is as follows ‘‘That Congress disapproves the 
recommendations of the National Commission on 
Energy Security and Transition to New Fuels as 
submitted by the President on lllll’’, the 
blank space being filled in with the appropriate date; 
and 
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(3) the title of which is as follows: ‘‘Joint reso-
lution disapproving the recommendations of the Na-
tional Commission on Energy Security and Transi-
tion to New Fuels’’. 
(d) REFERRAL.—A resolution described in subsection 
(c) that is introduced in the House of Representatives 
shall be referred to the appropriate committees of the 
House of Representatives. A resolution described in sub-
section (c) introduced in the Senate shall be referred to 
the appropriate committees of the Senate. 
(e) DISCHARGE.—If the committee to which a resolu-
tion described in subsection (c) is referred has not re-
ported such resolution (or an identical resolution) by the 
end of the 20-day period beginning on the date on which 
the President transmits the response to the Congress 
under subsection (a), such committee shall be, at the end 
of such period, discharged from further consideration of 
such resolution, and such resolution shall be placed on the 
appropriate calender of the House involved. 
(f) CONSIDERATION.—(1) On or after the third day 
after the date on which the committee to which such a 
resolution is referred has reported, or has been discharged 
(under subsection (e)) from further consideration of, such 
a resolution, it is in order (even though a previous motion 
to the same effect has been disagreed to) for any Member 
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of the respective House to move to proceed to the consider-
ation of the resolution. A Member may make the motion 
only on the day after the calender day on which the Mem-
ber announces to the House concerned the Member’s in-
tention 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 motion is made 
by direction of the committee to which the resolution was 
referred. All points of order against the resolution (and 
against consideration of the resolution) are waived. The 
motion is highly privileged in the House of Representatives 
and is privileged in the Senate and is not debatable. The 
motion is not 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 consideration 
of the resolution is agreed to, the respective House shall 
immediately proceed to consideration of the joint resolu-
tion without intervening motion, order, or other business, 
and the resolution shall remain the unfinished business of 
the respective House until disposed of. 
(2) Debate on the resolution, and on all debatable 
motions and appeals in connection therewith, shall be lim-
ited to not more than 2 hours, which shall be divided 
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equally between those favoring and those opposing the res-
olution. An amendment to the resolution is not in order. 
A motion to postpone, or a motion to proceed to the con-
sideration of other business, or a motion to recommit the 
resolution is not in order. A motion to reconsider the vote 
by which the resolution is agreed to or disagreed to is not 
in order. 
(3) Immediately following the conclusion of the de-
bate on a resolution described in subsection (c) and a sin-
gle quorum call at the conclusion of the debate if re-
quested in accordance with the rules of the appropriate 
House, the vote on final passage of the resolution shall 
occur. 
(4) 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 a resolution described in subsection (c) shall 
be decided without debate. 
(g) CONSIDERATION BY OTHER HOUSE.—(1) If, be-
fore the passage by one House of a resolution of that 
House described in subsection (c), that House receives 
from the other House a resolution described in subsection 
(c), then the following procedures shall apply: 
(A) The resolution of the other House shall not 
be referred to a committee and may not be consid-
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ered in the House receiving it except in the case of 
final passage as provided in subparagraph (B)(ii). 
(B) With respect to a resolution described in 
subsection (c) of the House receiving the resolu-
tion— 
(i) the procedure in that House shall be 
the same as if no resolution had been received 
from the other House; but 
(ii) the vote on final passage shall be on 
the resolution of the other House. 
(2) Upon disposition of the resolution received from 
the other House, it shall no longer be in order to consider 
the resolution that originated in the receiving House. 
(h) RULES OF THE SENATE AND HOUSE.—This sec-
tion is enacted by Congress— 
(1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of 
the Senate and House of Representatives, respec-
tively, and as such it is deemed a part of the rules 
of each House, respectively, but applicable only with 
respect to the procedure to be followed in that 
House in the case of a resolution described in sub-
section (c), and it supersedes other rules only to the 
extent that it is inconsistent with such rules; and 
(2) with full recognition of the constitutional 
right of either House to change the rules (so far as 
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relating to the procedure of that House) at any time, 
in the same manner, and to the same extent as in 
the case of any other rule of that House. 
SEC. 109. TERMINATION. 
The Commission shall terminate 60 days after trans-
mitting its final report pursuant to section 107(b). 
TITLE 
II—NEW 
MANHATTAN 
CENTER 
FOR 
HIGH 
EFFI-
CIENCY VEHICLES 
SEC. 201. FINDINGS. 
The Congress finds that— 
(1) private, academic, and government research 
and development resources need to be focused and 
coordinated to accomplish the rapid commercializa-
tion and deployment of technologies and resources 
needed to achieve energy independence; 
(2) a project similar to the Manhattan Project 
is needed to bring national attention to the need for 
energy independence and to move the United States 
beyond its reliance on oil and gasoline; 
(3) an independent entity is needed to identify 
the areas where scientific breakthroughs and govern-
ment investment are best focused, in coordination 
with private and academic efforts, to encourage the 
commercial development of viable vehicle and fuel 
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