SEC. 2. EXPEDITED CONSIDERATION OF CERTAIN PRO-
POSED RESCISSIONS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Part B of title X of the Congres-
sional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (2 
U.S.C. 681 et seq.) is amended by redesignating sections 
1013 through 1017 as sections 1014 through 1018, re-
spectively, and inserting after section 1012 the following 
new section: 
‘‘EXPEDITED CONSIDERATION OF CERTAIN PROPOSED 
RESCISSIONS 
‘‘SEC. 1013. (a) PROPOSED RESCISSION OF DISCRE-
TIONARY BUDGET AUTHORITY.—In addition to the meth-
od of rescinding discretionary budget authority specified 
in section 1012, the President may propose, at the time 
and in the manner provided in subsection (b), the rescis-
sion of any discretionary budget authority provided in an 
appropriations Act. Funds made available for obligation 
under this procedure may not be proposed for rescission 
again under this section or section 1012. 
‘‘(b) TRANSMITTAL OF SPECIAL MESSAGE.— 
‘‘(1) Not later than 3 days after the date of en-
actment of an appropriations Act subject to rescis-
sion under this section, the President may transmit 
to Congress a special message proposing to rescind 
amounts of discretionary budget authority provided 
in that Act and include with that special message a 
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draft bill or joint resolution that, if enacted, would 
only rescind that discretionary budget authority. 
‘‘(2) In the case of an Act that includes ac-
counts within the jurisdiction of more than one sub-
committee of the Committee on Appropriations, the 
President in proposing to rescind discretionary 
budget authority under this section shall send a sep-
arate special message and accompanying draft bill or 
joint resolution for accounts within the jurisdiction 
of each such subcommittee. 
‘‘(3) Each special message shall specify, with 
respect to the discretionary budget authority pro-
posed to be rescinded, the matters referred to in 
paragraphs (1) through (5) of section 1012(a). 
‘‘(c) LIMITATION ON AMOUNTS SUBJECT TO RESCIS-
SION.— 
‘‘(1) The amount of discretionary budget au-
thority which the President may propose to rescind 
in a special message under this section for a par-
ticular program, project, or activity for a fiscal year 
may not exceed 25 percent of the amount appro-
priated for that program, project, or activity in that 
Act. 
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‘‘(2) The limitation contained in paragraph (1) 
shall only apply to a program, project, or activity 
that is authorized by law. 
‘‘(d) PROCEDURES
FOR
EXPEDITED
CONSIDER-
ATION.— 
‘‘(1)(A) Before the close of the second day of 
continuous session of the applicable House after the 
date of receipt of a special message transmitted to 
Congress under subsection (b), the majority leader 
or minority leader of the House of Congress in 
which the Act involved originated shall introduce (by 
request) the draft bill or joint resolution accom-
panying that special message. If the bill or joint res-
olution is not introduced as provided in the pre-
ceding sentence, then, on the third day of continuous 
session of that House after the date of receipt of 
that special message, any Member of that House 
may introduce the bill or joint resolution. 
‘‘(B) The bill or joint resolution shall be re-
ferred to the Committee on Appropriations of that 
House. The committee shall report the bill or joint 
resolution without substantive revision and with or 
without recommendation. The bill or joint resolution 
shall be reported not later than the seventh day of 
continuous session of that House after the date of 
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receipt of that special message. If the Committee on 
Appropriations fails to report the bill or joint resolu-
tion within that period, that committee shall be 
automatically discharged from consideration of the 
bill or joint resolution, and the bill or joint resolu-
tion shall be placed on the appropriate calendar. 
‘‘(C) A vote on final passage of the bill or joint 
resolution shall be taken in that House on or before 
the close of the 10th calendar day of continuous ses-
sion of that House after the date of the introduction 
of the bill or joint resolution in that House. If the 
bill or joint resolution is agreed to, the Clerk of the 
House of Representatives (in the case of a bill or 
joint resolution agreed to in the House of Represent-
atives) or the Secretary of the Senate (in the case 
of a bill or joint resolution agreed to in the Senate) 
shall cause the bill or joint resolution to be en-
grossed, certified, and transmitted to the other 
House of Congress on the same calendar day on 
which the bill or joint resolution is agreed to. 
‘‘(2)(A) A bill or joint resolution transmitted to 
the House of Representatives or the Senate pursu-
ant to paragraph (1)(C) shall be referred to the 
Committee on Appropriations of that House. The 
committee shall report the bill or joint resolution 
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without substantive revision and with or without rec-
ommendation. The bill or joint resolution shall be re-
ported not later than the seventh day of continuous 
session of that House after it receives the bill or 
joint resolution. A committee failing to report the 
bill or joint resolution within such period shall be 
automatically discharged from consideration of the 
bill or joint resolution, and the bill or joint resolu-
tion shall be placed upon the appropriate calendar. 
‘‘(B) A vote on final passage of a bill or joint 
resolution transmitted to that House shall be taken 
on or before the close of the 10th calendar day of 
continuous session of that House after the date on 
which the bill or joint resolution is transmitted. If 
the bill or joint resolution is agreed to in that 
House, the Clerk of the House of Representatives 
(in the case of a bill or joint resolution agreed to in 
the House of Representatives) or the Secretary of 
the Senate (in the case of a bill or joint resolution 
agreed to in the Senate) shall cause the engrossed 
bill or joint resolution to be returned to the House 
in which the bill or joint resolution originated. 
‘‘(3)(A) A motion in the House of Representa-
tives to proceed to the consideration of a bill or joint 
resolution under this section shall be highly privi-
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leged and not debatable. An amendment to the mo-
tion shall not be in order, nor shall it be in order 
to move to reconsider the vote by which the motion 
is agreed to or disagreed to. 
‘‘(B) Debate in the House of Representatives 
on a bill or joint resolution under this section shall 
not exceed 4 hours, which shall be divided equally 
between those favoring and those opposing the bill 
or joint resolution. A motion further to limit debate 
shall not be debatable. It shall not be in order to 
move to recommit a bill or joint resolution under 
this section or to move to reconsider the vote by 
which the bill or joint resolution is agreed to or dis-
agreed to. 
‘‘(C) Appeals from decisions of the Chair relat-
ing to the application of the Rules of the House of 
Representatives to the procedure relating to a bill or 
joint resolution under this section shall be decided 
without debate. 
‘‘(D) Except to the extent specifically provided 
in the preceding provisions of this subsection, con-
sideration of a bill or joint resolution under this sec-
tion shall be governed by the Rules of the House of 
Representatives. 
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‘‘(4)(A) A motion in the Senate to proceed to 
the consideration of a bill or joint resolution under 
this section shall be privileged and not debatable. An 
amendment to the motion shall not be in order, nor 
shall it be in order to move to reconsider the vote 
by which the motion is agreed to or disagreed to. 
‘‘(B) Debate in the Senate on a bill or joint res-
olution under this section, and all debatable motions 
and appeals in connection therewith, shall not exceed 
10 hours. The time shall be equally divided between, 
and controlled by, the majority leader and the mi-
nority leader or their designees. 
‘‘(C) Debate in the Senate on any debatable 
motion or appeal in connection with a bill or joint 
resolution under this section shall be limited to not 
more than 1 hour, to be equally divided between, 
and controlled by, the mover and the manager of the 
bill or joint resolution, except that in the event the 
manager of the bill or joint resolution 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 time under their control on the passage of a 
bill or joint resolution, allot additional time to any 
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Senator during the consideration of any debatable 
motion or appeal. 
‘‘(D) A motion in the Senate to further limit 
debate on a bill or joint resolution under this section 
is not debatable. A motion to recommit a bill or joint 
resolution under this section is not in order. 
‘‘(e) AMENDMENTS PROHIBITED.—No amendment to 
a bill or joint resolution considered under this section shall 
be in order in either the House of Representatives or the 
Senate. No motion to suspend the application of this sub-
section shall be in order in either House, nor shall it be 
in order in either House to suspend the application of this 
subsection by unanimous consent. 
‘‘(f) REQUIREMENT TO MAKE AVAILABLE FOR OBLI-
GATION.—Any amount of discretionary budget authority 
proposed to be rescinded in a special message transmitted 
to Congress under subsection (b) shall be made available 
for obligation on the day after the date on which either 
House defeats the bill or joint resolution transmitted with 
that special message. 
‘‘(g) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this section— 
‘‘(1) continuity of a session of either House of 
Congress shall be considered as broken only by an 
adjournment of that House sine die, and the days on 
which that House is not in session because of an ad-
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journment of more than 3 days to a date certain 
shall be excluded in the computation of any period; 
and 
‘‘(2) the term ‘discretionary budget authority’ 
means the dollar amount of discretionary budget au-
thority and obligation limitations— 
‘‘(A) specified in an appropriation law, or 
the dollar amount of budget authority required 
to be allocated by a specific proviso in an ap-
propriation law for which a specific dollar figure 
was not included; 
‘‘(B) represented separately in any table, 
chart, or explanatory text included in the state-
ment of managers or the governing committee 
report accompanying such law; 
‘‘(C) required to be allocated for a specific 
program, project, or activity in a law (other 
than an appropriation law) that mandates obli-
gations from or within accounts, programs, 
projects, or activities for which budget authority 
or an obligation limitation is provided in an ap-
propriation law; 
‘‘(D) represented by the product of the es-
timated procurement cost and the total quantity 
of items specified in an appropriation law or in-
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cluded in the statement of managers or the gov-
erning committee report accompanying such 
law; or 
‘‘(E) represented by the product of the es-
timated procurement cost and the total quantity 
of items required to be provided in a law (other 
than an appropriation law) that mandates obli-
gations from accounts, programs, projects, or 
activities for which dollar amount of discre-
tionary budget authority or an obligation limita-
tion is provided in an appropriation law.’’. 
(b) EXERCISE OF RULEMAKING POWERS.—Section 
904 of such Act (2 U.S.C. 621 note) is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘and 1017’’ in subsection (a) 
and inserting ‘‘1013, and 1018’’; and 
(2) by striking ‘‘section 1017’’ in subsection (d) 
and inserting ‘‘sections 1013 and 1018’’. 
(c) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.— 
(1) Section 1011 of such Act (2 U.S.C. 682(5)) 
is amended— 
(A) in paragraph (4), by striking ‘‘1013’’ 
and inserting ‘‘1014’’; and 
(B) in paragraph (5)— 
(i) by striking ‘‘1016’’ and inserting 
‘‘1017’’; and 
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(ii) by striking ‘‘1017(b)(1)’’ and in-
serting ‘‘1018(b)(1)’’. 
(2) Section 1015 of such Act (2 U.S.C. 685) 
(as redesignated by subsection (a)) is amended— 
(A) by striking ‘‘1012 or 1013’’ each place 
it appears and inserting ‘‘1012, 1013, or 
1014’’; 
(B) in subsection (b)(1), by striking 
‘‘1012’’ and inserting ‘‘1012 or 1013’’; 
(C) in subsection (b)(2), by striking 
‘‘1013’’ and inserting ‘‘1014’’; and 
(D) in subsection (e)(2)— 
(i) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of 
subparagraph (A); 
(ii) by redesignating subparagraph 
(B) as subparagraph (C); 
(iii) by striking ‘‘1013’’ in subpara-
graph (C) (as so redesignated) and insert-
ing ‘‘1014’’; and 
(iv) by inserting after subparagraph 
(A) the following new subparagraph: 
‘‘(B) he has transmitted a special message 
under section 1013 with respect to a proposed 
rescission; and’’. 
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(3) Section 1016 of such Act (2 U.S.C. 686) 
(as redesignated by subsection (a)) is amended by 
striking ‘‘1012 or 1013’’ each place it appears and 
inserting ‘‘1012, 1013, or 1014’’. 
(d) CLERICAL AMENDMENTS.—The table of sections 
for subpart B of title X of such Act is amended— 
(1) by redesignating the items relating to sec-
tions 1013 through 1017 as items relating to sec-
tions 1014 through 1018; and 
(2) by inserting after the item relating to sec-
tion 1012 the following new item: 
‘‘Sec. 1013. Expedited consideration of certain proposed rescissions.’’. 
(e) APPLICATION.—Section 1013 of the Congres-
sional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (as 
added by subsection (a)) shall apply to amounts of discre-
tionary budget authority provided by appropriation Acts 
(as defined in subsection (g)(2) of such section) that are 
enacted after the date of the enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 3. TERMINATION. 
The authority provided by section 1013 of the Con-
gressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 
(as added by section 2) shall terminate effective on the 
date in 2012 on which the Congress adjourns sine die. 
Æ 
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