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<meta><dc:title>118 HJRES 109 ENR: Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Securities and Exchange Commission relating to “Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 121”.</dc:title>
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<congress style="-uslm-lc:I665502" value="118">One Hundred Eighteenth Congress of the United States of America</congress><session style="-uslm-lc:I665503" value="2">A T T  H  E S  E  C  O  N  D S  E  S  S  I  O  N</session>
<enrolledDateline style="-uslm-lc:I665504">Begun and held at the City of Washington on Wednesday, the third day of January, two thousand and twenty-four</enrolledDateline>
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<docTitle class="centered fontsize18" style="-uslm-lc:I665505">Joint Resolution</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="centered fontsize8" style="-uslm-lc:I665511">Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Securities and Exchange Commission relating to “Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 121”.<?GPOvSpace 08?></officialTitle>
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<resolvingClause class="indentUp0 firstIndent0 fontsize10 italic" style="-uslm-lc:I650120"><i>  Resolved   by   the   Senate   and   House   of   Representatives   of   the   United   States   of   America   in   Congress   assembled,</i></resolvingClause>
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<content class="inline"> That Congress disapproves the rule submitted by the Securities and Exchange Commission relating to “Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 121” (<ref href="/us/fr/87/21015">87 Fed. Reg. 21015</ref> (April 11, 2022) and a letter of opinion from the Government Accountability Office dated October 31, 2023 (which was printed in the Congressional Record on November 1, 2023, on pages S5310–5312), concluding that such Staff Accounting Bulletin is a rule under <ref href="/us/usc/t5/ch8">chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code</ref>), and such rule shall have no force or effect.</content>
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<signature><role style="-uslm-lc:I650114">Vice President of the United States and  President of the Senate.</role></signature>
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