Title: No IRRESPONSIBLE Spending Act
Policy area: Congress

Summary:
No Irresponsible Recovery or Reinvestment Expenditures Supporting Priorities Outside Necessary Surface Infrastructure Built Legitimately and Expediently Spending Act or the No IRRESPONSIBLE Spending Act
This resolution provides that it shall not be in order for the House of Representatives to consider a bill containing an appropriation or authorization of more than $100 billion relating to infrastructure if the bill does not provide at least 50% of those funds to specified programs, initiatives, or projects (e.g., the construction or maintenance of highways, railways, airports, and waterways). A question of order on this percentage may be raised at any time.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 309 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 309

 To amend the Rules of the House of Representatives to prohibit bills 
and joint resolutions that contain an appropriation or authorization of 
  more than $100,000,000,000 relating to infrastructure that does not 
provide at least 50 percent of such funds to programs, initiatives, or 
projects that directly impact construction or maintenance of highways, 
    roads, bridges, dams, passenger and freight railways, airports, 
 waterways and ports, public schools, or the safety of such facilities.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 13, 2021

 Mr. Turner submitted the following resolution; which was referred to 
                         the Committee on Rules

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                               RESOLUTION


 
 To amend the Rules of the House of Representatives to prohibit bills 
and joint resolutions that contain an appropriation or authorization of 
  more than $100,000,000,000 relating to infrastructure that does not 
provide at least 50 percent of such funds to programs, initiatives, or 
projects that directly impact construction or maintenance of highways, 
    roads, bridges, dams, passenger and freight railways, airports, 
 waterways and ports, public schools, or the safety of such facilities.

    Resolved,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Resolution may be cited as the ``No Irresponsible Recovery or 
Reinvestment Expenditures Supporting Priorities Outside Necessary 
Surface Infrastructure Built Legitimately and Expediently Spending 
Act'' or the ``No IRRESPONSIBLE Spending Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION OF CONSIDERATION OF CERTAIN BILLS.

    That rule XXI of the Rules of the House of Representatives is 
amended by adding at the end the following new clause--
    ``13. It shall not be in order to consider a bill that contains an 
appropriation or authorization of more than $100,000,000,000 relating 
to infrastructure that does not provide at least 50 percent of such 
funds to programs, initiatives, or projects that directly impact 
construction or maintenance of highways, roads, bridges, dams, 
passenger and freight railways, airports, waterways and ports, public 
schools, or the safety of such facilities. A question of order on the 
percentage of funds provided to such programs, initiatives, or projects 
in such bill may be raised at any time.''.
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