Earmark Accountability and Reform Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1375
Sponsor: Rep. Buchanan, Vern [R-FL-13]
Introduced: 2007-03-07 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Appropriations
Authorization
Budget deficits
Budget reconciliation
Budget resolutions
Budget surpluses
Congress
Congressional conference committees
Congressional ethics
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Congressional voting
Economic impact statements
Entitlements
Executive impoundment of appropriated funds
Expedited congressional procedure
Food stamps
Government Operations and Politics
Government spending reductions
House rules and procedure
Income tax
Item veto
Legislation
Legislative resolutions
Presidential messages
Rescission of appropriated funds
Senate rules and procedure
Social Welfare
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax exclusion
Tax expenditures
Tax preferences
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-07
text: 
Earmark Accountability and Reform Act of 2007 - Amends the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to authorize the President to propose the cancellation (line item veto) of any dollar amount of discretionary budget authority, item of direct spending, or targeted tax benefit.
 
 
Sets forth requirements for the President's transmittal to Congress of a special message regarding a proposed cancellation.
 
Dedicates any cancellation only to deficit reduction or increase of a surplus.
 
Provides for adjustment of: (1) committee allocations resulting from such rescission; and (2) applicable limits, as appropriate, under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act).
 
Sets forth procedures for expedited congressional consideration of a proposed rescission.
 
 Expresses the sense of Congress that no President or any executive branch official should condition the inclusion or exclusion, or threaten to condition the inclusion or exclusion, of any proposed cancellation in any special message under this Act upon any vote cast or to be cast by any Member of either chamber.
 
 
Amends Rule XXII (House and Senate Relations) of the Rules of the House of Representatives to declare that any earmark that was not committed to conference by either chamber in their disagreeing votes on a measure shall be considered out of scope under such Rule.
 
Amends Rule XIII (Calendars and Committee Reports) to prohibit floor consideration of a report by the Committee on Rules on a rule or order to waive the three-day layover requirement of Rule XIII or Rule XXII, except when agreed to by two-thirds of the Members voting, a quorum being present.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-07
text: Referred to the Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-03-07
text: Referred to the Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-03-07
text: Referred to the Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-03-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-07
text: Introduced in House