IV 
109TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 975 
Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to require that rescission 
bills always be considered under open rules every year, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 28, 2006 
Mr. KING of Iowa (for himself, Mr. HENSARLING, Mr. GUTKNECHT, Mr. 
FEENEY, Mr. MCHENRY, Mr. CHABOT, Mr. SHADEGG, Mr. FLAKE, Mrs. 
JO ANN DAVIS of Virginia, Mr. BARTLETT of Maryland, Ms. FOXX, Mrs. 
CUBIN, Mr. MILLER of Florida, Mrs. MUSGRAVE, Mrs. MYRICK, Mr. 
PITTS, Mr. WESTMORELAND, Mr. FRANKS of Arizona, Mr. BURTON of 
Indiana, Mr. TANCREDO, Mrs. BLACKBURN, Mr. PAUL, Mr. COLE of 
Oklahoma, Mr. ROHRABACHER, Mr. GARRETT of New Jersey, Mr. AKIN, 
Mr. PEARCE, Mr. TERRY, and Mr. DUNCAN) submitted the following res-
olution; which was referred to the Committee on Rules 
RESOLUTION 
Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to 
require that rescission bills always be considered under 
open rules every year, and for other purposes. 
Whereas Federal spending is out of control and the Congres-
sional Budget Office (CBO) projects that if current laws 
and policies remained the same, the Federal Government 
will run a deficit of $337 billion in 2006; 
Whereas a rescissions bill, which would cut Federal spending, 
should be brought to the House floor at the beginning of 
every fiscal quarter to give Congress the opportunity to 
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cut and cancel unnecessary, wasteful, and bloated govern-
ment spending to eliminate the deficit; 
Whereas any Federal appropriations that have not yet been 
spent would be on the table for cuts; 
Whereas the House of Representatives would consider this 
spending slashing bill under an open rule procedure that 
allows any Member of Congress to offer an amendment 
to cut Federal spending and demand a recorded vote to 
hold Congress accountable; 
Whereas in this spending cutting process every single spend-
ing item would be up for reconsideration and no Member 
of Congress could make excuses for failing to cut spend-
ing because the process would provide a record of their 
actions; 
Whereas the taxpayer money saved through this spending 
cutting process will be returned to the general fund and 
cannot be used for new spending; 
Whereas the process of cutting spending should be open to 
the public, by posting this spending cutting bill and its 
amendments on the Internet, so that Americans can exer-
cise their right to contact their Members of Congress and 
make their views known; and 
Whereas this rescissions spending cutting process will dis-
cipline Federal spending and save taxpayer money: Now, 
therefore, be it 
Resolved, That (a) this resolution may be cited as the 
‘‘Cut the Unnecessary Tab Resolution’’ or the ‘‘CUT Res-
olution’’. 
(b) Clause 6(c) of rule XIII of the Rules of the House 
of Representatives is amended by striking the period and 
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inserting ‘‘; or’’ at the end of subparagraph (2) and by 
adding at the end the following new subparagraph: 
‘‘(3) a rule or order that would limit any amendment 
that would otherwise be in order to a rescission bill.’’. 
(c) Clause 4(b) of rule X of the Rules of the House 
of Representatives is amended by inserting ‘‘(1)’’ after 
‘‘(b)’’, by redesignating subparagraphs (1) through (6) as 
subdivisions (A) through (F), respectively, and by adding 
at the end the following: 
‘‘(2)(A) Whenever a rescission bill passes the House, 
the Committee on the Budget shall immediately reduce the 
applicable allocations under section 302(a) of the Congres-
sional Budget Act of 1974 by the total amount of reduc-
tions in budget authority and in outlays resulting from 
such rescission bill. 
‘‘(B) As used in this subparagraph, the term ‘rescis-
sion bill’ means a bill or joint resolution which only re-
scinds, in whole or in part, budget authority and which 
includes only titles corresponding to the most recently en-
acted appropriation bills that continue to include unobli-
gated balances.’’. 
(d) Rule XIII of the Rules of the House of Represent-
atives is amended by adding at the end the following new 
clause: 
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