3.0.0 3267 2022-09-05T13:37:13Z 2022-09-05T13:37:13Z Senate S 2020-02-11 116 ssga00 Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2020-02-11T17:13:18Z No Budget, No Pay Act 116 129 HR 2019-01-03 Referred to the House Committee on House Administration. Related bill CRS End-of-Year Fiscal Responsibility Act 116 4559 HR 2019-09-27 Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform. Related bill CRS No Budget, No Recess Act 116 186 S 2019-01-17 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Related bill CRS COST Act 116 807 S 2019-03-14 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Related bill CRS End-of-Year Fiscal Responsibility Act 116 1238 S 2019-04-30 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Related bill CRS Billion Dollar Boondoggle Act of 2019 116 1917 HR 2019-03-27 Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, 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. Related bill CRS Billion Dollar Boondoggle Act of 2019 116 565 S 2020-03-02 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 435. Related bill CRS 2020-02-11 ssga00 Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. IntroReferral 2020-02-11 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress E000295 Sen. Ernst, Joni [R-IA] Joni Ernst R IA N P000612 Sen. Perdue, David [R-GA] David Perdue R GA Alfred 2020-02-11 True B001310 Sen. Braun, Mike [R-IN] Mike Braun R IN 2020-02-24 False Economics and Public Finance Appropriations Budget process Congressional operations and organization Congressional oversight Executive agency funding and structure Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management Government information and archives Inflation and prices Legislative rules and procedure Members of Congress Public contracts and procurement Research administration and funding Senate State and local government operations Transportation costs Economics and Public Finance 00 2020-02-11 Introduced in Senate 2022-06-22T14:08:24Z Making Americans Know about Excessive spending through Commonsense Efforts to Notice and Target Shenanigans Act or the MAKE CENTS Act

This bill modifies the federal budget process to add reporting requirements, limit spending at the end of a fiscal year, and impose penalties on Congress for failing to approve a budget resolution or the annual appropriations bills on a timely basis.

Among other changes, the bill

  • requires federal agencies to report annually to Congress regarding federally funded projects that are more than five years behind schedule or have expenditures that are at least $1 billion more than the original cost estimate for the project;
  • requires recipients of federal funding to disclose specified details regarding the cost to the federal government and nongovernmental sources;
  • prohibits an executive agency from spending more in the last 2 months of a fiscal year than the agency's average monthly spending for the previous 10 months;
  • prohibits Members of Congress from being paid in a fiscal year until both chambers approve the budget resolution and pass all of the regular appropriations bills for that fiscal year; and
  • limits congressional recesses, adjournments, and travel if Congress has not completed work on a budget resolution and the annual appropriations bills by certain deadlines.
]]> MAKE CENTS Act Display Title MAKE CENTS Act Short Title(s) as Introduced MAKE CENTS Act Introduced in Senate IS Short Title(s) as Introduced Making Americans Know about Excessive spending through Commonsense Efforts to Notice and Target Shenanigans Act Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced A bill to provide adequate information about excessive Federal spending, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-116s3267is/xml/BILLS-116s3267is.xml 2020-02-11 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.